Example sentences for: blockbusters

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

  • Critics say the conglomerates have damaged book publishing with their obsessive pursuit of "blockbusters ." Last year, 212 hardcovers sold more than 100,000 copies, establishing a new record.

  • Midlist Crisis: Some charge that the conglomerates are starting to ignore the "midlist " book, serious nonfiction and literary fiction that sells fewer than 30,000 copies, preferring to gamble on potentially lucrative blockbusters.

  • The Oscars came too late for Europe's Monday morning papers, but Alexander Walker, veteran film critic of the London Evening Standard , wrote in an op-ed piece that the Academy Awards encourage Hollywood's overheated, overhyped obsession with blockbusters, which is strangling the creative spirit.

  • Rap returns us to the same sprawling prolixity as 1890s ballads--and 12-verse story songs, whether they're lilting waltzes or numbingly hard-core, are rarely distinguished as music . Almost all turn-of-the-century blockbusters have the simplest of tonal structures.

  • Jacob Weisberg's Aug. 20 "The Browser" on uncritical movie critics is wrong, I think, to suggest that mainstream critics should ignore blockbusters or dismiss them in a paragraph.


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