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How to use Lear in a sentence

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At the beginning of the play, we see Lear as a proud, vain, quick-tempered old king, not necessarily evil, but certainly not good.
A servant is sent to try to countermand the order, but Lear enters with Cordelia in his arms.
He recognised theatrical quality wherever he found it, and was not afraid to use the unusual, as in his orientally costumed 1955 King Lear.
At the same time, Tolstoy vitriolically attacked Lear, eccentrically stating a preference for King Leir.
With that, Lear cuts Cordelia off, deciding she will receive none of the entitlement.
Now I've got 9,000 hours total time, I'm an instrument-rated pilot, and a captain on a Lear Jet.
She fell into a bitter argument with her husband, who vehemently chastised Goneril for her mistreatment of Lear.
The Play of King Lear is a great tragic play that many tragedies try to compare to.
And even allowing that some of it may have been lost in the opening night fog, the movement in Mr. Lear is no great shakes.
Gloucester undergoes physical and mental torment because he makes the same mistake that Lear does.
To intensify the tragedy of King Lear, Shakespeare has not one but two tragic characters and four villains.
The Oxford editors first disentangled the two texts under their original printed titles of The History and The Tragedy of King Lear.
Of course I'm concerned about getting it right, but it holds no terrors for me because I have played Lear, and Lear is the most difficult of all.
Standing out, though, is his masterly rendering of Lear, conveying the many-sidedness of the old man's character and development.
The design comes into its own in the final scene, when Lear and Cordelia are laid out together, finally united in death.
Based on the life and nonsense poems of Edward Lear, the show was nominated for a Total Theatre Award and widely praised by the critics.
Diane Keaton directs and stars in this patchy comic King Lear about a dying father and his three daughters.
This is a Lear who learns too late that kingship is no protection against ordinary mortal suffering.
Enraged, Lear banishes Cordelia from the kingdom, only to later recognise the error in his judgement.
A new book from Mallory Ortberg imagines what literary legends including King Lear and Jane Eyre would have texted.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Mr. martel was sitting in the arm-chair in an attitude King Lear might have envied.
As they neared the picturesque figure, King Lear bowed low before Patty, and held out his hand for her dance card.
Tolstoi, I am afraid, has missed all the poetry of Lear, all the deathless phrases.
Mrs. Lear did not follow them upstairs immediately, but puttered about the kitchen preparing herself a midnight snack.
Then Lear declaims a monolog on the unfairness of legal judgment, which is quite out of place in the mouth of the insane Lear.
On the way, she overcomes crevasses, impenetrable ice fields and a pack of wolves, before taking a Lear jet to a London bar.
The inspiration which uttered itself in Hamlet and Lear could utter things as good from day to day for ever.
But the more he listened to the fantasia of Ring Lear the further he felt from forming any definite opinion of it.
Cordelia lands with French troops to repossess Lear of his kingdom.
Also a man might go far, as he himself had done, by strict attention to plays called Lear and Julius Caesar, both much in demand by examiners.
To call an artist morbid because he deals with morbidity as his subject-matter is as silly as if one called Shakespeare mad because he wrote 'King Lear.
That of King Lear, which is one of Shakespeare's great romantic historical plays, is, for instance, to be found in Geoffrey of Monmouth, in Wace's Brut, and in Layamon's Brut.
His mind instantly veered back again to Shakespeare and King Lear.
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