Lord Jim
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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We were like Joseph Conrad’s Marlow telling the story of Lord Jim or the doomed voyage from “Youth.”
From Washington Post • Mar. 22, 2018
As for the novel’s hero and Drax’s chief adversary, Patrick Sumner, he’s clearly a descendant of Melville’s Ishmael and Conrad’s Lord Jim.
From New York Times • Mar. 31, 2016
Like his mentor John Huston, Brooks adapted far too many Great Books – Lord Jim and The Brothers Karamazov were notable failures – and worked without a co-writer to apply the brakes or gas.
From The Guardian • Sep. 7, 2015
“Tall, handsome, bearded” Ted Sanderson, wrote biographer Jeffrey Meyers, served as a “prototype” for the titular character in Conrad’s Lord Jim.
From Slate • Apr. 29, 2015
Top-down attention is what we use to direct our focus, say, on a work project, or listening to Lord Jim through headphones, or when driving on the road.
From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel
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