Examples of in medias res in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web This poem by Lyudmyla Khersonsky begins in medias res with a dead body rather than the death itself, followed by a pile of urgent questions. — New York Times, 20 May 2022 The film opens in medias res, with lifelong best friends Kevin (Abbott) and Val (Carmichael) about to shoot each other in the head outside of a strip club at 10 in the morning. — Katie Walsh, Los Angeles Times, 13 May 2022 The new Kurt Vile album begins, like many great yarns, in medias res. — Simon Vozick-levinson, Rolling Stone, 13 Apr. 2022 Douglas-Fairhurst’s biography, stuffed with a curiosity shop’s worth of literary gossip and Victoriana, begins with the author in medias res. — Charlie Tyson, The Atlantic, 15 Mar. 2022 The technique, which later won Dubochet and his collaborators a Nobel Prize, transforms water molecules into glasslike ice, in effect stopping life in medias res. — James Somers, The New Yorker, 28 Feb. 2022 The book begins in medias res, tossing the reader into the postwar mêlée of a rapidly shapeshifting New York. — Jamie Hood, Vulture, 15 Dec. 2021 Yes, most shows that begin in medias res and then jump back are incredibly annoying. — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 19 Oct. 2021 Doerr likes to start in medias res, and then to go back to the origins of his stories and work forward again (or forward and backward and forward again, in alternation). — James Wood, The New Yorker, 27 Sep. 2021 See More

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“In medias res.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/in%20medias%20res. Accessed 24 May. 2022.

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