Example sentences for: deliverance

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  • Titles that reveal (without giving away) the are of the plot are typified, quite randomly, by: Witness for the Prosecution, Don't Look Now, Beware of Pity, Deliverance, Portnoy's Complaint, Crime \?\ Punishment, The Informer, A Doll's House, Hunger, Pygmalion, The Ransom of Red Chief, Before the Fact ,— once started, the list is endless.

  • Where the Grand Canal empties into the lagoon stands the imposing church of Santa Maria della Salute — “la Salute” to the Venetians — is the masterpiece of Baldassare Longhena, built to mark the city’s deliverance from a plague in 1630.

  • Journalist Christopher Dickey's combination memoir and biography of his poet and novelist ( Deliverance ) father, James Dickey, is praised as a "loving, ruthless portrait" (Lance Morrow, Time ). Although he cleaned up his act a couple of years before dying, Dickey Sr. spent much of his life boozing, telling self-aggrandizing tall tales, and openly cheating on his wife.

  • Because linguists are atrociously bad writers, in most cases, this would be a merciful deliverance from the agony of wading through their texts at first hand were it not for the unfortunate fact that Andersen is a pretty boring writer himself.

  • To monitor his movements, the authorities appoint an inspector (an amusingly sober Jon Voight, reunited with Boorman for the first time since the 1972 Deliverance ), who soon has the resources to post cops on Cahill's back fence and on the street in front of his house, and to follow him and his gang wherever they go.


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