Frayn
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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With the precision of a geometric proof, Frayn built his farce on the back of another.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 10, 2025
“We know that someone could weigh 200 pounds and be perfectly healthy, and someone could weigh that same amount and be struggling with diabetes, heart disease,” Frayn said.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 1, 2022
He went to work on “Face Value,” a comedy of mistaken racial anxiety that modeled on the farces of Michael Frayn and Joe Orton.
From New York Times ● Nov. 1, 2020
Also at the protest was playwright and novelist Michael Frayn, 86, who said he was introduced to the Extinction Rebellion cause by his grandson, Jack Harries, a YouTuber and environmental activist.
From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2019
Michael Frayn, in an afterword to his play Copenhagen, notes that several words in German–Unsicherheit, Unschärfe, Unbestimmtheit–have been used by various translators, but that none quite equates to the English uncertainty.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
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