Ionesco
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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The impulse to join the herd—any herd—is as seductive as it is dangerous, Ionesco suggests.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026
No one would ever confuse Harold Pinter with Jean Genet, or Beckett with Ionesco for that matter.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 13, 2026
Theatre of the Absurd pioneer Ionesco had called it an anti-Nazi play.
From Reuters ● Nov. 24, 2021
Thank heaven for Eugene O’Neill and Eugène Ionesco, whose plays transported me into high school, where poetry was waiting and “Dover Beach” became my go-to receptacle for all teenage dreams and despair.
From New York Times ● Aug. 6, 2021
“Raising the dead is no joke,” Madame Ionesco warned.
From "The Unseen Guest" by Maryrose Wood
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