Example sentences for: carr

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

  • Renfro offers up the "dead-eyed sang-froid only a 16-year-old suburbanite can pull off" (Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly ), and McKellen is called "a supremely gifted actor at the top of his form" (Jay Carr, the Boston Globe ). The film is said to be uneven, though, and when you add directorial missteps to the uncomfortable subject matter, the result is pans mixed with queasily laudatory reviews.

  • Biggest minus: the clunky musical numbers, which "hang like cinder blocks" around the neck of the production (Jay Carr, the Boston Globe ). Critics also complain that the movie is short on emotional power, partly because "it tries to do too much" and be all things to all audiences (Michael Wilmington, the Chicago Tribune ). (David Edelstein says the film "feels as if it might have been called Indiana Moses and the Temple of Doom ." Click to read the rest of his review in Slate .)

  • Pitt's performance and his efforts at an Austrian accent are deemed "painful at moments" (Kenneth Turan, the Los Angeles Times ). Only the "beautifully filmed" (Jay Carr, the Boston Globe ) mountain vistas are said to make the movie worth watching.

  • "It may sound crazy," notes "top astrologer and palmist" Anthony Carr, "but I think she's on to something with this."

  • Byatt, Caleb Carr, Christopher Cerf, Ron Chernow, Shelby Foote, Stephen Jay Gould, Vartan Gregorian, Charles Johnson, Mary Karr, Jon Krakauer, Edmund Morris, Elaine Pagels, John Richardson, Arthur Schlesinger Jr., Carolyn See, William Styron, and Gore Vidal.


How many words do you know? Try our free vocabulary size test!


Search

Search for example sentences

Loading Loading...
Quantcast