How To Use Cheever In A Sentence
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To the mother it seemed perfectly American, the America she admired, culled from literature, handpicked fruit—Nineteenth Century and Yankee Emily Dickinson, later—Twentieth Century, waspy, Cheeveresque, ice clinking in a martini glass.
Still Life, With Girl
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Jim Dyckman and Charity Coe Cheever: the problem that Kedzie was going to seem to solve -- as one solves any problem humanly, which is by substituting one or more new problems in place of the old.
We Can't Have Everything
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Taking second overall in the Grand Prix and winning the U.S. title jumpstarted Cheever's season a year ago, as he went on to win World Cup silver twice and finish No. 3 overall in the world.
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The Baroness, a beaten favourite in a selling race on her latest start at Lingfield, is my Nap selection to recover losses by winning the J Cheever Loophole Handicap over six furlongs.
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As she rode home in a taxicab that was like a refrigerator she passed in the Fifth Avenue mêlée Zada L'Etoile, now Mrs. Cheever, with the tiny little Cheever like a princelet asleep at her breast, hiding with its pink head the letter "A" that had grown there.
We Can't Have Everything
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In Selling Ben Cheever, Cheever fils relates what happened after his third novel was rejected by his publisher.
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Cheever sells cars, washes dishes, works in a bookstore, guards perfume and even acts in a haunted house in his efforts to retain gainful employment.
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It doesn’t matter if you’re James Jones, John Cheever, or a stewbum snoozing in Penn Station; for an addict, the right to the drink or drug of choice must be preserved at all costs.
On writing by stephen king
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The landscape of Cheever Country today is, literally, a façade of a façade - mini-mansions with foreclosure signs, unsell-able gas-guzzlers with ludicrous names like
Hartford Advocate: News
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I received a call from Dennis Spain, Chief of Staff to Senator William Cheever of New York. He mentioned you were coming.
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Living in Italy for extended periods was the great geographical adventure of Cheever's life and a foil to his obsession with American exurbia.
John Cheever's Cruel Paradoxes
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I think Cheever used to point to George Plimpton's pad and tell him, "Okay put down two colons, then the word 'blinks', and now two more colons," back when he'd be interviewed for The Paris Review.
Nick Mamatas' Journal
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John Cheever was one of the most prominent American short story writers in the twentieth century.
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The chapter about the cafard and the search for a house with yellow windows is one for which I felt extraordinary empathy; I would love to have written this particularly, but writing such material surely had a certain price attached, and it's known that Cheever went through hell before receiving this vision.
My Book Meme
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Cheever's flickering back and forth between a yearning for light and the destructive lure (alcoholic, carnal) of darkness is rendered on a scale at once "ingrown" and vast.
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In 1941 Cheever married Mary Winternitz, whose father had been the dean of Yale Medical School and whose grandfather, Thomas A. Watson, had been a coinventor of the telephone.
John Cheever's Cruel Paradoxes
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The welfare of the commonwealth was always upon the conscience of Ezekiel Cheever," said Judge Sewall, "and he abominated periwigs.
'Cheever: A Life'
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The cartoon shows some helicopters, tanks and paratroopers converging on a suburban house; a typical schlump who looks like the sort of New York exurbanite not quite witty or lustful enough to get into a Cheever tale stands in the door.
