Example sentences for: dissenters

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

  • Dissenters call the film "snappy and ingratiating" ( Slate 's David Edelstein) and "completely enjoyable and, at its climactic moments, thrilling" ( New York magazine's David Denby).

  • Dissenters complain that Grisham's plot is unbecoming material for a director of Altman's caliber.

  • In Gates' essay, those who would favor a stand of principle over the ties of blut and boden (or even business)--whistle-blowers, antiwar dissenters, anyone who says "I often place my duty to society above my duty to my company"--are characterized as "William Godwin types all, letting their own dear mothers burn to a crisp with nary a second thought while they grandly escort some silk-bedizened cleric to safety."

  • Dissenters echo Cynthia Ozick's criticism in an October issue of The New Yorker that the play remains "infantilized, Americanized, homogenized, [and] sentimentalized."

  • A few carp about the film's cloying, overt patriotism--and the avoidance of the politics and protests that surrounded the war--with the most vocal dissenters saying it "restart[s] the John Wayne-ing of Vietnam" (Michael Atkinson, the Village Voice ). For most, though, the stories, told by some 20 captured airmen, speak eloquently and powerfully.


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