Example sentences for: benigni

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

  • Those in favor say the film is really a fable about parental love, since Benigni's character's antics are really an effort to shield his son from the horrors of World War II.

  • Its subject isn't the power of "enchantment" but the power of Benigni to celebrate, Jerry Lewis-like, his own beautiful martyrdom.

  • She said in an interview with the paper that during the Oscars she gave Benigni the original bowler hat that Chaplin wore in The Gold Rush .

  • In an essay in the New York Times , Edward Rothstein refers to the "enchantment of fascism" being "undone" by "other spells, some recalling the innocence of childhood"--and, indeed, Benigni's routines are sometimes childishly liberating, conjuring up Fo, Harpo Marx, and Danny Kaye in his double-talk mode.

  • Imagine Harpo Marx giving the hot foot to a pompous official, who takes out a machine gun and blows him away: That's how cheap Benigni's hash of farce and tragedy is.


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