"decade" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Auden's description of the Thirties, sitting in a bar in New York in September 1939, as a 'low dishonest decade' at least deglamorizes it.
- Hitler appears in 1923, and looms larger as the diary enters Auden's "low dishonest decade."
- In one of W. H. Auden's brilliant poems, "September 1, 1939," he called the 1930's "a low dishonest decade."
- How do you reflect on the lives lost and the lies told in the course of what Pankaj Mishra calls our "low, dishonest decade"?
- He lived in Germany and he wrote in Paris, where he died of alcoholism in 1939 at the end of that "low, dishonest decade."
- So this was by no means entirely, as Auden described it, a "low, dishonest decade".
- But his overriding message was that after "a dishonest decade" of the Clinton-Gore Administration, he would restore values to the White House.
- Fast-forward to our own low, dishonest decade.
- Its opening lines certainly speak to this anxious age: "I sit in one of the dives/On Fifty-second Street/Uncertain and afraid/As the clever hopes expire/Of a low dishonest decade."
- Some have even likened it to another poet's corrosive assessment of politics at another time - W.H. Auden's description of the 1930's as "a low dishonest decade."
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