Monsarrat

[ mon-suh-rat ]

noun

1. Nicholas, 1910–79, English novelist in Canada.

Example Sentences

A ship of a different sort: Bob Sweeny’s best reading experience was the summer he was 17 or 18 and read Nicholas Monsarrat’s “The Cruel Sea,” set on a destroyer on convoy duty in the frigid North Atlantic during World War II. “As the action got vivid, I had to get a blanket to cover me!” wrote Bob, of Staunton, Va.

From Washington Post

Cyclists should enter the zoo from the Monsarrat Avenue gate.

From Washington Times

Herman Wouk's The Caine Mutiny rolled in first, more than a year ago;* since then there has been a flood tide of such salty works as Rachel Carson's The Sea Around Us and Under the Sea Wind, Nicholas Monsarrat's novel of convoys battling The Cruel Sea, and Commander Edward L. Beach's Submarine!

From Time Magazine Archive

The handsome young American broke on the French Riviera, the young blonde who learns to care, and the international bounders they tangle with seem to interest Monsarrat as little as they will admirers of his big book.

From Time Magazine Archive

Following the lead of Nicholas Monsarrat's novel, on which it is based, the picture not only condemns the conscious criminals but also takes a number of lusty sideswipes at their unconscious accomplices: public sentimentality and crassness, official indifference, and the self-righteous complaisance of religious groups.

From Time Magazine Archive