Sterne
Americannoun
noun
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Sterne was a muse of the broken-hearted, and, for all its oddities, “Tristram Shandy” is 18th-century sentimental fiction at its finest.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 9, 2026
Newling and Mendes started researching, and discovered another out-of-print book: “John Gielgud Directs Richard Burton in Hamlet,” a fly-on-the-wall account by Richard Sterne, an ensemble actor who smuggled a tape recorder into the rehearsal room.
From New York Times • Jun. 2, 2023
In 1759, at the beginning of the history of the English novel, Laurence Sterne began publishing installments of his metadramatic novel, “The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman.”
From Washington Post • Feb. 15, 2023
Mr. Marías wrote in a looping, discursive style that critics often compared to that of Henry James or Laurence Sterne, whose epigram “I progress as I digress” Mr. Marías took as a personal motto.
From New York Times • Sep. 12, 2022
Otto Sieber, Brian Witt, and Andy Sterne hired a helicopter to take them to the top of Mount St. Helens with film and camera equipment.
From "Mountain of Fire" by Rebecca E. F. Barone
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