Example sentences for: crashingly

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  • Critics dismiss the fourth installment in the Batman series as nonsensical kitsch, a "wild, campy costume party" (Janet Maslin, the New York Times ). Director Joel Schumacher ( A Time to Kill ), a former window dresser, leans heavily on high-concept get-ups (villainess Uma Thurman sports a suit made from 450 Santa Claus wigs) in the apparent hope of deflecting attention from a script that "has the eerie feeling of having no beginning, no middle and no end" (Kenneth Turan, the Los Angeles Times ). Still, his overwrought attempts to make the film fun--fast editing, crashingly loud sound effects--end up making it "a punishing ordeal" (Alex Ross, Slate).

  • Christopher Lehmann-Haupt writes in the New York Times that the book is "impressive if somewhat pious" but finds Purdy's points unoriginal: "He labors at length such crashingly obvious ideas as the ethical ambiguities of technology."


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