Example sentences for: dafoe

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  • 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.

  • Though there is not enough room in cyberspace to catalog all the ways in which these films part company with reality, special mention must be made of Speed 2 's villain, who, as richly embodied by Willem Dafoe, is a buzzing hive of befuddlement.

  • 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.


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