Saunders

British  

/ ˈsɔːndəz /

noun

1. Dame Cicely . 1918–2005, British philanthropist: founded St Christopher's Hospice in 1967 for the care of the terminally ill, upon which the modern hospice movement is modelled. Her books include Living with Dying (1983)

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Example Sentences

George Saunders has published five collections of influential and critically lauded short stories, but in 2017 he found a wider readership with “Lincoln in the Bardo,” a novel that inhabits the impressions of ghosts witnessing the passage through the afterlife of Abraham Lincoln’s dead son, Willie.

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Boone’s stubbornness, and the angry meddling of these ghosts arouses a crisis in Jill, and the story switches between her memories of life, her reconsiderations of the idea of deathbed absolution and the interruptions of a bizarrerie—if, for Mr. Saunders, a rather tame one—of other phantoms.

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Added to the waning novelty is the reliance on stock characters who show little of Mr. Saunders’s usual comic invention.

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The novel’s universe is finally too faint to bear the weight of whatever message about judgment and contrition Mr. Saunders hopes to communicate.

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“If I’m syncing with you, my prediction error is minimized,” says Dr. Oliver Saunders Wilder, an interpersonal synchrony researcher affiliated with MIT’s Affective Computing Group.

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