[
US
/ˈɪʃɝˌwʊd/
]
NOUN
- United States writer (born in England) whose best known novels portray Berlin in the 1930's and who collaborated with W. H. Auden in writing plays in verse (1904-1986)
How To Use Isherwood In A Sentence
- Did Isherwood intend the diaries for publication?
- We boast that we're a good trainer for the next employer, " says Nestle 's Mr. Isherwood.
- In his podium pitch, Isherwood refers to his ‘passion’ for customer service.
- I'd immediately see how boxy and small they were,’ says Isherwood.
- Despite the improbability of the union, they stayed together – after a long period of tantrums, trial separations and retaliatory sexual bouts with third parties, all part of a power struggle between two very self-willed men – until Isherwood's death in 1986. Christopher Isherwood remembered: 'Chris always loved young men, and I was certainly young'
- Kathleen was the most otherly of what Isherwood always called the Others, those Blimps and boors he felt nipping at his heels. Darling Me
- A new volume of diaries is just one way Don Bachardy has kept alive the memory of Christopher Isherwood, says Peter Conrad Christopher Isherwood remembered: 'Chris always loved young men, and I was certainly young'
- Mr. Isherwood however, in preferring to use his coveted editorial pulpit for snarky, unfunny asides -- "I invited a Beatles devotee to join me, but she reacted as if I'd asked her to come along to two weeks of jury duty" -- casually damns Rain with faint, and mostly fudged, praise. James Rotondi: "Rain" On Their Parade: Why the NY Times review of "Rain: A Tribute to the Beatles On Broadway" is All Wet
- Isherwood's bright-eyed alertness, his lack of malice, his genial delight in the foibles of others all make him lovable.
- Welsh and Isherwood convey their joy in the rich variety of wildlife they encounter during their travels, and the book is attractively illustrated.