How To Use Thackeray In A Sentence
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In Thackeray's next full-length novel, the Newcomes are so called because they are both a nouveau riche and an arriviste family.
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It was a kind of ligh-hearted joke and I don't understand why such strained reaction came from Thackeray.
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Affectionate and needy, Thackeray had nurtured Anny's talents, and used her as his amanuensis.
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Thackeray evidently thought that this was too good a subplot to be used only once in English fiction.
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Becky Sharp, Thackeray's anti-hero in Vanity Fair, lived beyond her means and rarely paid her bills, particularly those she owed to "tradespeople" who had provided her with basic but unglamorous services.
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'He (Thackeray) is a' goonda '(goon) and deserves punishment similar to criminals.
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But I do not think it is so much surcharged as 'Esmond;' 'Barry Lyndon' is by no manner of means so conscious as that mirror of gentlemanhood, with its manifold self-reverberations; and for these reasons I am inclined to think he is the most perfect creation of Thackeray's mind.
Literature and Life (Complete)
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PATNA: Slogans of "Raj Thackeray murdabad" and "Rahul Raj amar rahe" rent the eerie midnight air at Patna's Gulbighat burning ground on the bank of Ganga on Tuesday as Kundan Prasad Singh lit the pyre of his son Rahul Raj.
The Times of India
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The preceding chapter, ‘A Paper out of the Spectator’, is universally acclaimed as one of the most brilliant tours de force in Thackeray's prose, containing as it does a brilliant pastiche of Addison.
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The good doctor, who had succeeded his father-in-law here in 1791, was enough of a public character to have his name parodied by Thackeray as Dr. Tickleus.
Thomas Henry Huxley
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He was on good terms with the major novelists of his day: he greatly admired Thackeray, of whom he nevertheless wrote a clear-sighted study, and was a close friend of G. Eliot and G. H. Lewes.
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‘How well those live who are comfortably and thoroughly in debt,’ wrote Thackeray in Vanity Fair, ‘how they deny themselves nothing; how jolly and easy they are in their minds.’
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Thomas Agnew and William Bradbury, Mr. Fred Evans and Sir William Agnew; while photographic groups of the Staff and a fine autotype of Thackeray complete the wall decoration of one of the most interesting apartments in London City.
The History of "Punch"
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The Shiv Sena chief has puffed eyes and dark under-eye circles, thanks to ceaseless barking by stray canines in the vicinity of the Thackeray residence, Matoshri, in Bandra East.
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Does he think that literature went to the dogs when Thackeray wrote about puppydom?
Miscellanies
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Wilson crafts this social satire in the mould of Thackeray or Trollope, crisscrossing class barriers with fluid facility.
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1848 THACKERAY Bk. Snobs xviii, With his gibus-hat and his little glazed pumps. a1854 E. FORBES Lit.
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In passages such as these, his most distinctive, Thackeray comes perilously near abnegating his responsibility as a human being, let alone as a moralist or satirist.
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Abigail and I have been here for a number of days and we have been entertained by some of her splendacious friends, to use Thackeray's adjective for American fashion; and the impression it all makes on me is beyond description.
Children of the Market Place
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It is customary to objurgate Thackeray as too moral.
A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century
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She was young, portionless, bad with money, indecisive, and indolent (so Thackeray thought).
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His Lordship is not quite so profligate of his money,' said Thackeray drily.
CASCADES - THE DAY OF THE DEAD
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The chief has puffed eyes and dark under-eye circles, thanks to ceaseless barking by stray canines in the vicinity of the Thackeray residence.
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Our pleasant duties over, we looked into the cheerful glow of the turf sods while I read aloud Thackeray's Peg of Limavady.
Penelope's Irish Experiences
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Stephen Thackeray, a biologist at the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology in Lancaster, who co-led the research said: "This is about the desynchronisation of events during the year.
The Guardian World News
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Thackeray's studies of the flunky are capital; but he studies him _qua flunky_, as a naturalist might study an animal, and hardly ranks him _sub specie humanitatis_.
Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 6
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They can be excessive in their devotions to Carlyle and Henry James and their denunciations can at times be annoying in slighting great writers such as Thackeray and Jane Austen.
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She remains faithful to Thackeray's vision but adds a touch of candour to his tone of condescension, a sparkle to the supercilious ways of the British rich.
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As for the Sena, matters have gone too far for it to appear to be doing a climbdown on the issue, particularly with Shah Rukh refusing to "apologise" to Thackeray on the matter.
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His Lordship is not quite so profligate of his money,' said Thackeray drily.
CASCADES - THE DAY OF THE DEAD
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Celt, and certainly no Barney McCrea of her day would have kissed her if she had spilled ever so many pitchers of sweet buttermilk over the plain; so we took the railway, and departed with delight for Limavady, where Thackeray, fresh from his visit to Charles Lever, laid his poetical tribute at the stockingless feet of Miss Margaret of that town.
Penelope's Irish Experiences
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One of the book's more intriguing detours is its passage on nineteenth-century novels: Fielding, Thackeray, Dickens.
The Status-tician
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If the use of the grotesque was a strength of Browning (as Chesterton contends against other critics), so in the case of Thackeray that which some critics have held to be a weakness -- I mean his 'irrelevancy' -- is for our critic a strength.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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Thackeray said the BJP had touched the pinnacle of success under Vajpayee's leadership and lamented that some ambitious leaders in the party were eyeing his place.
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Thackeray, as he penned the early chapters, saw a rather more dignified narrative future for William.
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Thackeray, happily, lived at a time before the strong-minded woman had come into fashionat a time when it was generally received and believed that woman is not undeveloped man, but diverse.
Criticisms and Interpretations. IV. By William Samuel Lilly
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We regretted, for Thackeray's own sake, that he had permitted himself, in some spleenful moment, to commit an injustice, which would sooner or later be apparent to his own mind.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 77, March, 1864
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In his early work, Thackeray burlesqued popular authors and tried on different guises.
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Shiv Sena men would have made 'tandoori' of Azmi: Bal Thackeray
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She is the sharp-witted anti-heroine in this rich adaptation of Thackeray's classic novel of shameless social climbing in the early 19th century.
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Shiv Sena would have made 'tandoori' of Azmi: Bal Thackeray
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Dickens was contemporary with Thackeray.
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A visit last night to the Thackeray Gallery in Kensington had much of the same eirenic effect as San Michele's island.
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