Highsmith
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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As Highsmith writes in the novel, “There’s also a person exactly the opposite of you, like the unseen part of you, somewhere in the world, and he waits in ambush.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
Mr. Wilson is a journalist who has written biographies of Patricia Highsmith, Alexander McQueen and Sylvia Plath.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 2026
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 framed her 1952 lesbian romance “The Price of Salt” at the fictional Frankenberg’s, based on Bloomingdale’s.
From New York Times ● Jun. 2, 2024
It was in the rathskeller that Highsmith made the hit of his histrionic career.
From The Voice of the City: Further Stories of the Four Million by O. Henry
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