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  • Federico García

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  • noun Spanish poet and dramatist who was shot dead by Franco's soldiers soon after the start of the Spanish Civil War (1898-1936)

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Examples

  • Perhaps because he resented [Federico García] Lorca's refusal to collaborate with him on a film the previous year, or more probably because he detected Lorca's homosexuality and objected to it, [Luis] Buñuel had come to loathe what he described as Lorca's 'extreme narcissism' and 'terrible aestheticism.'

    Great Regulars: Self-described "poet, performer and savant" Tim Key (32) Rus Bowden 2009

  • Perhaps because he resented [Federico García] Lorca's refusal to collaborate with him on a film the previous year, or more probably because he detected Lorca's homosexuality and objected to it, [Luis] Buñuel had come to loathe what he described as Lorca's 'extreme narcissism' and 'terrible aestheticism.'

    Archive 2009-09-01 Rus Bowden 2009

  • The desk, said to have belonged to the martyred poet Federico Garc í a Lorca, is passed along one by one among Ms. Krauss's characters.

    A Desk and Its Stories 2010

  • Jorge Guillén, Pedro Salinas, and others who have written their names in the recent history of Spanish poetry have been his disciples; Federico Garcia Lorca is one of them, and so are the

    Nobel Prize in Literature 1956 - Presentation Speech 1956

  • And her fiance, Prince Lorca, is a surprisingly strong player who’s made me fonder of him than I want to be.

    Apothecarius Argentum Book 8 » Manga Worth Reading 2009

  • “I am called Lorca, second Maj of the Kazon-Ogla.”

    HER KLINGON SOUL MICHAEL JAN FRIEDMAN 1997

  • Some reports called Lorca Cohen a surrogate, but Wainwright's website announcement referred to "proud parents Lorca Cohen, Rufus Wainwright and Deputy Dad Jorn Weisbrodt".

    The Guardian World News 2011

  • Well, that might be a bit alarmist but I wonder just how much the name "Lorca" actually means to the man on the Clapham omnibus.

    Archive 2005-12-01 Hal Duncan 2005

  • Well, that might be a bit alarmist but I wonder just how much the name "Lorca" actually means to the man on the Clapham omnibus.

    The Ghetto Within The Ghetto Hal Duncan 2005

  • Thus he asserts that "'Lorca' is a complex author-function", whose "own vision of the gypsies is already that of an orientalist".

    ¡Bemsha SWING! 2009

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