Example sentences for: dafoe

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

  • Book -- The Divorce Culture , by Barbara Dafoe Whitehead;

  • It doesn't help that the waxen, bug-eyed Dafoe inhabits a different universe from the other actors, an effect that Schrader intended but that would have worked better with someone else--Dafoe always acts as if he has beamed down from a Martian theater troupe.

  • As a tragically repressed and alcoholic small-town cop, Nolte conveys a "fierce, anguished intensity" (Janet Maslin, the New York Times ). Critics say Schrader's style is a perfect match for Russell Banks' novel, and that the director "has hit, in this exquisitely shaped, paced, painted, and edited production, a new, deep level of artistry" (Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly ). Only complaint: The voice-over narration by Willem Dafoe (as Nolte's brother) is a bit stilted and portentous.

  • We know why she packs her bags after that and could have done without Dafoe's concluding lines about the lives of boys and men beaten by their fathers whose capacity for love and hope has been destroyed at birth.


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