Highsmith
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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That she’s playing a lesbian might be seen as homage to Ripley’s creator, Patricia Highsmith, but she’s a queer actress as well.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 9, 2025
Highsmith wrote about a garish yellow/black checkered pair of trunks, but, says Casalnuovo, “a color contrast wouldn’t translate.”
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 17, 2024
Highsmith structures them as telling details, the kinds of specifics that writers employ like shorthand to build a person in the reader’s mind.
From New York Times • Apr. 8, 2024
The character of Ripley can be seen as a kind of auto-fiction, a way for Highsmith to live as someone else.
From Salon • Apr. 5, 2024
Highsmith took the train the next day for Cranberry Corners.
From The Voice of the City: Further Stories of the Four Million by Henry, O.
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