Highsmith
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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A daring exploration of the criminal psyche that calls to mind Patricia Highsmith.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 12, 2025
I would invite Patricia Highsmith so that we could talk about “Ripley” and how she feels about the latest adaptation of Ripley in comparison to the film with Matt Damon.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 29, 2025
Patricia Highsmith provides only a few rudimentary details in the first few chapters of “The Talented Mr. Ripley,” her 1955 novel that kicked off a series of five books about the elusive con artist.
From New York Times • Apr. 8, 2024
According to biographers, Highsmith mirrored Ripley in some ways.
From Salon • Apr. 5, 2024
At 11.45 a. m. on the next day Highsmith, handsome, dressed in the latest mode, confident, with a fuchsia in his button-hole, sent up his card to Miss Carrington in her select apartment hotel.
From The Voice of the City: Further Stories of the Four Million by Henry, O.
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