Lord Jim
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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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
Four new “sub-trusts” were created in Bermuda – one each for Simons and his children Elizabeth, 57, Nathaniel, 51, and Audrey, 31 – to split ownership of the money in the Lord Jim Trust.
From The Guardian • Nov. 7, 2017
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
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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