Sentence examples for broken estate from inspiring English sources

• James Wood's The Broken Estate: Essays on Literature and Belief, is published in paperback by Pimlico.

In the title essay of his "Broken Estate," he describes growing up in "the command economy of evangelical Christianity".

This is his own predicament, on the evidence of The Broken Estate, and it is certainly Tommy Bunting's.

In "The Broken Estate," Wood makes a passionate argument for the novel as the art of the "real" -- a word he comes back to again and again.

AS in "The Broken Estate," his judgments are rendered in the service of an overriding idea about what "the novel" fundamentally is and what novelists, therefore, should do.

The latter position was perhaps most acutely defined by James Wood in an essay, "John Updike's Complacent God," in his collection "The Broken Estate: Essays on Literature and Belief" (Random House, 1999).

He wanted the great sugar estates broken up and land distributed to small farmers, who would grow other crops.

It's become a must-read because it breaks real estate news and partly fulfills readers' increasing appetite for an inside look at celebrities and athletes and how they live. .

Even today, the building continues to break real-estate sales records.

With no takers, the estate was broken up, and most of the land and smaller buildings have been sold.

As a consequence of its colonial history, New York real estate was broken up into many small parcels of land, with few large sites.