Example sentences for: crushingly

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  • A meaningless job, which anyone could have done, an undistinguished education, a home like any other in a crushingly ordinary neighborhood, a daily commute, no particular vices, and nothing to speak of in the line of contact sexuality--a white, Anglo-Saxon, middle-class life which, in external respects, was lived by innumerable unmarried sons answerable to family responsibilities, and marked by the lonely longings of a protracted virginity probably not all that unusual at the time, especially when, in Cornell's case, there were no riddling princesses to overcome his natural shyness and unprepossessing looks.

  • In the cosmology of race, whiteness is something like a black hole--a crushingly dense complex of myth and rumor that pulls us, invisibly and irresistibly, into its hold.

  • Critics call this remake of Death Takes a Holiday a "somnolent, emotion-free weepie" (Janet Maslin, the New York Times ). Faults: It's way too long (almost three hours), and Brad Pitt's performance as Death is crushingly zombielike.


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