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  • Lingeman's biography of Lewis, as well as the other "-- Theodore Dreiser --" has that unique tribute, the feeling tone. "

    Sinclair Lewis: Rebel From Mainstreet 2002

  • My own candidates are Cather and Theodore Dreiser.

    What Killed American Lit. Joseph Epstein 2011

  • As Theodore Dreiser observed in 1917 "Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail."

    Brendan Smith: Calling All Artists: The Climate Movement Needs You Brendan Smith 2011

  • And now Bharati Mukherjee's "Miss New India" echoes Theodore Dreiser's "Sister Carrie"—it's about a young provincial woman who seeks her fortune in the big city.

    Rock City By Way Of Bangalore Sam Sacks 2011

  • As Theodore Dreiser observed in 1917 "Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail."

    Brendan Smith: Calling All Artists: The Climate Movement Needs You Brendan Smith 2011

  • And now Bharati Mukherjee's "Miss New India" echoes Theodore Dreiser's "Sister Carrie"—it's about a young provincial woman who seeks her fortune in the big city.

    Rock City By Way Of Bangalore Sam Sacks 2011

  • In his director's statement, Morris explains that: Back in high school, Joyce McKinney read a short story by Theodore Dreiser entitled 'The Second Choice.'

    George Heymont: Invasion of the Narcissists George Heymont 2011

  • Many things mark the tradition of realism—one that includes among its masters Honoré de Balzac, Émile Zola, Theodore Dreiser and John Dos Passos—but it is distinguished above all by illustrating the pressure that social arrangements bring to bear on individual character.

    Destiny's Children Joseph Epstein 2012

  • You take a serious tone and cover it like it's some Theodore Dreiser tragedy, and you get savaged for doing a sympathetic portrayal of just another one of those overpaid, under-talented, pampered children of Hollywood thespians, who grow up to be two-bit hacks with a sense of entitlement, a substance abuse problem, and a mean streak.

    Charlie Sheen comic book in the works. Naturally. 2011

  • But gone are the days of larger-than-life anti-heroes like Frank Cowperwood in Theodore Dreiser's "The Financier" 1912, a Doctor Faust of the stock market with a ­diabolical genius for ­multiplying wealth.

    Modern Money Sam Sacks 2011

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