Example sentences for: boorman

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

  • They aren't heroes but they have a bullying magnetism that Boorman calls "pagan."

  • He might even have fancied himself a Robin Hood, although Boorman (who also wrote the screenplay) is careful to show that if Cahill stole from the rich he gave to no one but himself and his family, and that his thieving put a lot of poor people out of work.

  • Boorman pays a price for his neutrality: The General isn't an emotional grabber.

  • first rate" (Dreher, the New York Post ), and the photography is a "seductively beautiful black and white" (Janet Maslin, the New York Times ). The New Republic 's Stanley Kauffmann gives the film its only pan, saying that Voight performs well below his abilities and that Boorman's directing is a "disappointment."

  • Martin Cahill (Brendan Gleeson), the protagonist of John Boorman's marvelous almost-comedy The General , is a gangster in the flamboyant movie tradition of movie mobsters who smile at the bullets that end their lives.


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