Sentence examples for the recognitions from inspiring English sources
noun
The act of recognizing or the condition of being recognized
- He looked at her for ten full minutes before recognition dawned.
James Parker writes: Life is short, "The Recognitions" is long.
It was William Gaddis's 900-page, multi-layered and sometimes dashed-confusing behemoth The Recognitions.
Though the name of the book is never mentioned, it's fairly obviously "The Recognitions".
"Alex was reading this William Gaddis novel The Recognitions," says Schwartzman.
"The Recognitions," to my surprise, turned out to be a book like this.
But would The Recognitions get published were it submitted by some eager unknown today (as Gaddis was in 1955)?
I've dipped back into many books, from Finnegans Wake to The Recognitions by William Gaddis to Christine Brooke-Rose's Textermination.
He lived long enough to see "The Recognitions" brought back into print in a relatively error-free edition.
He first gained note as an author with the publication of his controversial novel The Recognitions (1955).
He enjoyed the recognition.
They deserve the recognition.
