Example sentences for: ansen

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

  • This big-budget remake is deemed a bastardization of director Fred Zinnemann's 1973 political thriller, The Day of the Jackal . "At best generic, at worst nonsensical," says Newsweek 's David Ansen.

  • It's a portrait of the artist as a perfect swine" (Joe Morgenstern, the Wall Street Journal ). British newcomer Samantha Morton steals the show as a mute laundress who becomes Ray's lover: "Rarely has a performer mined such complex and potent emotion from such simple materials: a smile, a shrug, an attentive winsomeness" (David Ansen, Newsweek ). One critic dissents: Mike Clark of USA Today calls the film "depressing" and only "sporadically amusing."

  • Newsweek 's David Ansen is more ambivalent, saying it's "alternately amazing and annoying ...

  • This "fond, frequently hilarious" (David Ansen, Newsweek ) documentary about the Hollywood comedy writer Bruce Vilanch gets kind reviews all around.

  • Into this category go Gene Siskel of the Chicago Tribune , who recently gave a rave to Armageddon ; his Sneak Previews buddy Roger Ebert (who calls The Negotiator "a thriller that really hums along"); David Ansen of Newsweek ; and Richard Schickel of Time . Even Janet Maslin of the New York Times , intelligent though she is, seems headed down this slope when she enthuses about Lethal Weapon 4 or prostrates herself before the latest Spielberg.


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