Example sentences for: beheadings

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

  • Burton's imagery has an ecstatic intensity; it's too bad that the movie--loosely based on the Irving classic about a ghost who haunts New York's Hudson Valley in the decades after the American Revolution--has been constructed as a sort of proto- Hound of the Baskervilles . In the screenplay, credited to Andrew Kevin Walker ( Seven , 1995) but reportedly rewritten by Tom Stoppard, the schoolteacher Ichabod Crane is now a New York City constable (Johnny Depp) who travels upstate to solve a series of beheadings using the fledgling sciences of pathology and deduction.

  • The folklore the Grimm Brothers unearthed was full of beheadings and torture; the stories were both amusements and cautionary tales.

  • The art direction, costume design, and photography are top-notch: "It's the most gorgeous, sumptuous, painterly movie ever made about multiple decapitations" (Jeff Giles, Newsweek ). Johnny Depp, playing Ichabod Crane as an effete Manhattan detective sent to get to the bottom of a rash of beheadings, shines (or more accurately, is appropriately pallid).

  • Watching Princess Mononoke --which has been dubbed to Disney/Miramax specifications by American and English stars but retains its two-hour-plus length, its gory beheadings, and its grim, near-apocalyptic finale--you can understand their worship.

  • I did learn a lot about how the ancient kingdom of Wu conducted foreign policy, the virtue of a few beheadings to discipline the troops, and how Von Clausewitz thought you should deploy field artillery.


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