Miss Lonelyhearts
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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One of them, Miss Lonelyhearts, put the calf’s leg in her mouth and repeatedly tried to yank her up.
From The New Yorker • May 4, 2015
Theodore might be Nathanael West’s Miss Lonelyhearts — the cynical newspaperman consigned to the agony column — except that neither he nor writer-director Spike Jonze has anything so fashionable as satire in mind.
From Time • Oct. 12, 2013
Another campus satirist derived from the same origins: Nathan Weinstein, soon to be better known as Nathanael West, the author of Miss Lonelyhearts.
From Time Magazine Archive
At Brown University one of his best friends was Nathanael West, the future author of Miss Lonelyhearts and The Day of the Locust, and a future brother-in-law.
From Time Magazine Archive
Thinking to help, Miss Lonelyhearts arranges to meet one of his correspondents, a woman with a crippled husband.
From Time Magazine Archive
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