Example sentences for: chiltern

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

  • This idea is probably more Shavian (or Ibsenite) than Wildean, but the larger point is clear: that Wilde was more concerned with exploding the notion of an "ideal" person than with punishing Chiltern's sin, and in showing that part of becoming human is learning to forgive others' lapses.

  • An incriminating missive has fallen into the hands of an unscrupulous fortune hunter, Mrs. Cheveley (Julianne Moore), who's happy to destroy it if Chiltern trashes his high ideals and throws his support to a real-estate scam in which his blackmailer is heavily invested.

  • The suspense is that of a conventional melodrama: Will Chiltern defy Mrs. Cheveley in the name of truth?

  • But Wilde's protagonists all have dark secrets, and Chiltern's turns out to be a doozy.

  • Help arrives from an odd source: Lord Goring (Rupert Everett), a rich, indolent bounder and somewhat halting suitor of Chiltern's sister Mabel (Minnie Driver).


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