Usage examples (37)

• (Even a writer as conventional as John Updike is sometimes attacked for these sins.)
• However, Updike is a much better writer overall and definitely knows how to write much better stories than this Webster guy does.
• But the phrase Updike uses to describe Cheever's unhappy life, "menacing miasma," is apt, and applies to accounts of David Foster Wallace's life as well.
• John Updike is certainly in the final analysis a writer who has produced such fiction, even if one does have to pick and choose when surveying his very large body of work.