Example sentences for: directors

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

  • Years ago, when he was still a film critic, Paul Schrader wrote an evocative study of the directors Ozu, Bresson, and Dreyer that he called Transcendental Style in Cinema . How odd that the style of Schrader's new movie, Affliction , is as torturously untranscendent as a work of cinema can get.

  • Television coverage struggled to make something out of nothing, says Shales: "Directors of live historical events appear to think they are making documentaries about the events rather than transmitting them into American homes."

  • A parlor game among political journalists these days is to see how many of Gore's half-dozen "communications directors" you can name.

  • Written during a feverish tuberculosis fit when Chekhov was in his early 20s, titles include: "On the Train," "Sarah Bernhardt Comes to Town," "From the Diary of an Assistant Bookkeeper," and "Elements Most Often Found in Novels, Short Stories, Etc." A story reports from a funeral directors' convention--they see big business in millions of aging baby boomers.

  • A perfectionist and demanding taskmaster--he was often referred to as "the emperor"--he was more popular abroad than at home and late in his career had to ask foreign countries and American directors for financial backing.


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