"monster" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Better, probably, to read it less inquisitorially, remembering Henry James's description of novels as loose and baggy monsters and taking this one's ending as a part of the bag that needn't be looked into too closely.
- Somewhere within this loose, baggy monster there has to be a slim, cogently argued treatise struggling to get out.
- "David Lynch Keeps His Head" is a baggy monster of a profile that suffers from too much rumination on Mr. Lynch's significance to the budding artistic sensibility of the young Mr. Wallace.
- That Angus Wilson respected the baggy monsters of the Victorian era is unquestionable.
- Several critics take Rushdie to task for what they see as his sloppiness: Michiko Kakutani calls the novel a "loose, baggy monster" and "a decidedly disappointing performance" (the New York Times ).
- "The Ground Beneath Her Feet," Salman Rushdie's loose, baggy monster of a new novel, is a retelling of the Orpheus myth that recasts both the doomed musician and his lost lady love as rock stars.
- Epic novels can be loose, baggy monsters, but this one is stuffed with enough goodies to keep us entertained for days.
- More than 2,500 artists to date have stayed - about 35 each summer, a dozen in the seasons that require heating - in this "loose, baggy monster" of a house (Henry James's term for "War and Peace," but it applies).
- By turns fascinating and irritating, the novel is one of those loose and baggy monsters that can try one's patience even as it impresses itself in memory.
- Is it open season on Henry James's baggy monster?
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