Trilling

[ tril-ing ]

/ ˈtrɪl ɪŋ /

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noun

Lionel, 1905–75, U.S. critic and author.

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How to use Trilling in a sentence

Lionel Trilling routinely hailed Hemingway and Faulkner, F.R. Leavis venerated D.H. Lawrence.
John Sutherland‘s Enjoyable Little History of Literature|Malcolm Forbes|November 29, 2013|DAILY BEAST
Ransom Center humanities coordinator Gregory Curtis on how a misunderstanding started between Ginsberg and writer Diana Trilling.
The Mystery of the Allen Ginsberg-Diana Trilling Feud|Gregory Curtis|June 12, 2013|DAILY BEAST
Lionel Trilling was the first Jew who had ever been made a member of the English faculty at Columbia.
The Mystery of the Allen Ginsberg-Diana Trilling Feud|Gregory Curtis|June 12, 2013|DAILY BEAST
Diana Trilling, on the other hand, could not abide Ginsberg.
The Mystery of the Allen Ginsberg-Diana Trilling Feud|Gregory Curtis|June 12, 2013|DAILY BEAST

When Lionel Trilling died in 1975, he was as prestigious and influential a critic as one can be.
Adam Kirsch's Why Trilling Matters Reminds Us of Power of Reading|William Giraldi|December 1, 2011|DAILY BEAST
Peggy's idle fingers rattled out a little trilling catch from the Chanson Florian.
A Butterfly on the Wheel|Cyril Arthur Edward Ranger Gull
You might hear in the bushes the young blackbirds trilling their first untutored notes.
Night and Morning, Complete|Edward Bulwer-Lytton
For a few minutes neither spoke, and from the garden there came loud and clear the joyous trilling of the birds.
Marcus: the Young Centurion|George Manville Fenn
There was no need to ask why she sat there, watching her swelling hyacinths and listening to the trilling of her bird.
Gray youth|Oliver Onions
Only one person in her world was so lark-like, so jubilant, so joyous of nature as to improvise such a trilling melody.
Penny of Top Hill Trail|Belle Kanaris Maniates

British Dictionary definitions for Trilling

Trilling

/ (ˈtrɪlɪŋ) /

noun

Lionel . 1905–75, US literary critic, whose works include The Liberal Imagination (1950) and Sincerity and Authenticity (1974)

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