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Lord Jim

American  

noun

  1. a novel (1900) by Joseph Conrad.


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The Beyond Ofsted inquiry, chaired by former schools minister Lord Jim Knight and funded by the National Education Union, called for a "transformational" alteration to school inspections.

From BBC • Nov. 19, 2023

We were like Joseph Conrad’s Marlow telling the story of Lord Jim or the doomed voyage from “Youth.”

From Washington Post • Mar. 22, 2018

As for the novel’s hero and Drax’s chief adversary, Patrick Sumner, he’s clearly a descendant of Melville’s Ishmael and Conrad’s Lord Jim.

From New York Times • Mar. 31, 2016

“Tall, handsome, bearded” Ted Sanderson, wrote biographer Jeffrey Meyers, served as a “prototype” for the titular character in Conrad’s Lord Jim.

From Slate • Apr. 29, 2015

Top-down attention is what we use to direct our focus, say, on a work project, or listening to Lord Jim through headphones, or when driving on the road.

From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel

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