Clarissa

[kluh-ris-uh]

noun

1. a female given name, form of Clara.

Example Sentences

Each trails a potent symbol through the narrative: in the case of “Ulysses,” the kidneys and various foodstuffs assimilated by Bloom on June 16, 1904; in “Mrs. Dalloway,” the flowers Clarissa buys in Bond Street on the morning of her party.

Read more on The Wall Street Journal

In “Mrs. Dalloway,” Clarissa’s former suitor Peter Walsh asks himself at the party’s end what it is that fills him with such excitement.

Read more on The Wall Street Journal

Joyce’s Leopold Bloom and Woolf’s Peter Walsh “are wanderers like Odysseus. Molly Bloom and Clarissa Dalloway are the women to whom Bloom and Peter return, as Odysseus returns to Penelope.”

Read more on The Wall Street Journal

The sheer geographic extent of the damage suggests that L.A.’s fires played a minimal role, said Clarissa Anderson of UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography.

Read more on Los Angeles Times

Jonathan Parks-Ramage knows exactly what he’s doing in evoking bourgeoisie Clarissa Dalloway’s routine in the opening section of his new novel, “It’s Not the End of the World.”

Read more on Los Angeles Times