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Example sentences for: craven

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This is an imaginative attempt to dress craven pragmatism as high principle, but it makes no sense.
This was a craven, spineless response.
Horror director Wes Craven ( Scream , A Nightmare on Elm Street ) branches out and tackles the true story of Roberta Guaspari, an East Harlem violin teacher.
"[T]hink of a Friday the 13 th as written by Eugene Ionesco and Luigi Pirandello" (Stephen Hunter, the Washington Post ). Critics enjoy Craven's self-knowing winks (a film within the film spoofs the original Scream ). Some find the self-consciousness over the top.
Wolfe reminds us that for the Democrats, "taking back the middle" doesn't have to mean craven opportunism or a betrayal of its beliefs.