Frayn
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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With the precision of a geometric proof, Frayn built his farce on the back of another.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 10, 2025
“Your weight is like your heartbeat, in the sense that you might have a resting heartbeat, like 65 beats a minute,” Frayn said.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 1, 2022
He went to work on “Face Value,” a comedy of mistaken racial anxiety that modeled on the farces of Michael Frayn and Joe Orton.
From New York Times ● Nov. 1, 2020
Mr Frayn said he has seven grandchildren and does not want to see their lives "blighted or cut short" by climate change.
From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2019
Michael Frayn, in an afterword to his play Copenhagen, notes that several words in German–Unsicherheit, Unschärfe, Unbestimmtheit–have been used by various translators, but that none quite equates to the English uncertainty.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
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