Billy Budd
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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Waters’ antipathy toward C.J., much like John Claggart’s hostility toward Billy Budd, has a strong element of self-hate.
From Los Angeles Times • May 26, 2023
She confirmed herself as one of cinema’s hardcore visionaries with 1999’s Beau Travail, a fragmented, chilling story of the French Foreign Legion, shot in Djibouti and based loosely on Herman Melville’s Billy Budd, Sailor.
From The Guardian • Apr. 22, 2018
It started when Billy Budd got put on the no-fly list.
From Slate • Jun. 20, 2016
“Eustace Chisholm and the Works,” about the doomed relationship between a repressed gay man and one of the innocent Billy Budd figures that turn up frequently in Mr. Purdy’s fiction, failed to find an audience.
From New York Times • Aug. 26, 2013
In the few days we had spent outfitting the Beaver—checking the ropes, repairing sails, sealing the deck— he treated me like Billy Budd.
From "Hole in My Life" by Jack Gantos
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