Example sentences for: allen

How can you use “allen” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • With cinematographer Zhao Fei, production designer Santo Loquasto, and costume designer Laura Cunningham Bauer, Allen re-creates the world of urban supper clubs where gangsters mingle with jazz artists and high-society vamps and where the music itself seems to smooth over class distinctions.

  • Book-- The Haunted Wood: Soviet Espionage in America--The Stalin Era , by Allen Weinstein and Alexander Vassiliev;

  • ' One scholar, Allen Josephs of the University of West Florida, surmised that “from duquendio or duquende to duende is a short step, especially in Andalusia, where gypsy mastery would be precisely flamenco mastery.”

  • Of course, Woody Allen captured this idea perfectly in Bananas , in the scene where he buys a pile of intellectual journals, and tries to slip a copy of a pornographic magazine in with them, only to have the shop owner holler, "Hey Harry, how much for a copy of Orgasm ?" Later, Allen sits on the subway, gazing at the offending item, which he has neatly tucked into the latest edition of Commentary , with an article by Irving Kristol on the cover (another favorite Woody Allen line, of course, comes in Annie Hall , when he quips that Dissent and Commentary have merged to form a new magazine called Dysentery-- I was probably one of the few 11-year-olds to laugh at that one).

  • Allen described the "quibbling" over financing the Predator program as "ridiculous."


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