10 sentences with 'essay'
Example sentences and phrases with the word essay and other words derived from it.
• « In one of Henry's bookmarked pages in Compensation, an essay he used to read and reread, there was a passage that referred to weakness of character and that a man could not acquire soul strength until he had been "spurred, goaded, and sorely assailed." »
• « In 1784, a Prussian philosopher named Immanuel Kant published a short essay entitled What is the Enlightenment? It responded to nearly a century of philosophical, scientific and technical advances in Central and Western Europe that, he argued, had culminated in his own lifetime in a more enlightened and just age. »
• « Although Kant's essay probably exaggerated the utopian qualities of the thinking of his time, he was right that it corresponded to a major shift in the way educated Europeans thought about the world and the place of humans in it. »
• « Rousseau rose to prominence by winning an essay contest in 1749, writing a scathing critique of his contemporary French society and claiming that its so-called "civilisation" was a corrupt façade that undermined the natural moral character of humanity. »
• « The persuasive power of the essay was largely due to Gobineau's claim that his arguments were "scientific". »
• « His career was on the rise: he had won the prestigious Adams Prize for an essay entitled "Singularities and the Geometry of Space-Time". »
• « Hawking then published the essay "Black Hole Explosions? - which Dr Sciama considers "one of the most beautiful papers in the history of physics" - in the science journal Nature. »
• « He revolutionised the concepts of human evolution and asserts that the missing link does not exist, in an essay on the subject. »
• « He considers IQ tests a fallacy and wrote an essay that cast doubt on them even among their most ardent supporters. »
• « His literary work is characterised by a wide range of literary genres: essay, treatise, drama, novel, lyric, etcetera. »