Example sentences for: byrne

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

  • Beautifully acted, beautifully scored, and most beautifully shot, it gives a self-conscious nod to mob-movie romanticism without gutting the myth a la Scorsese's 1990 gangster hit, Goodfellas . (It also provides the best role Gabriel Byrne is ever likely to get: half Richard Burton, half Al Pacino)

  • Off Grafton Street is Kehoe’s (South Anne Street), a favorite watering spot; and on Duke Street are two pubs with with Ulysses connections — Davy Byrne’s, where Leopold Bloom ate a gorgonzola sandwich and drank a glass of wine, and Bailey’s, a busy, trendy pub on the site of Leopold Bloom’s house.

  • In End of Days the devil is first seen as a transparent watery wrinkle that rises out of a manhole and sashays into the men's room of a restaurant, whereupon it makes a forcible entry into the body of a prominent investment banker played by Gabriel Byrne.

  • Byrne, as D'Artagnan, the fourth musketeer, torn between his loyalty to the king and to his all-for-one/one-for-all compatriots, has the most complicated role and carries it off with real dignity and discernment (which means, of course, that he's just a teeny bit dull).

  • It's terribly tasteful and grown-up, but not half as compelling as musketeer Gabriel Byrne's fervid declaration to foxy Queen Mother Anne Parillaud in The Man in the Iron Mask : "To love you is a treason against France--not to love you a treason against my heart."


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