Example sentences for: clement

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

  • Written by The Commitments ' authors Ian La Frenais and Dick Clement, the film isn't about making fun of aging rockers as much as it is about rekindling old friendships: "winsome if entirely predictable" (Eric Brace, the Washington Post ). (Download the trailer here.)

  • After all, there exists a tendency these days that is eager to reclaim the likes of Norman Rockwell while consigning to his former cell Clement Greenberg and his exemplars.

  • As these late canvases wash over you with their great swaths of paint, you can immediately see why Clement Greenberg, writing during the late 1950s, spoke of the "rehabilitation" of Monet and why "the most advanced of advanced painters" (Greenberg names no names) "were enthusiastically rediscovering him."

  • Linked to the Vatican by a thick-walled passage, it served as a hideout for popes in times of danger, notably Pope Clement VII, who holed up here for a month during the sack of Rome by Habsburg troops in 1527 (see page 27).

  • By 1945, when the ungifted Pollock was still struggling with the greats, the critic Clement Greenberg was already heralding him as the baby Jesus of American art, noting that "he is not afraid to look ugly."


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