Example sentences for: ephron

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

  • I'd like to have been on the set of Sleepless in Seattle (1993) when Nora Ephron directed the scene in which a misty-eyed Meg Ryan spies on Tom Hanks as he frolics on a beach with his little son.

  • In life, Ephron is evidently incisive, but she doesn't have a good director's insight into the minutiae of human interaction.

  • Ephron co-authored and directed the 1998 movie, You've Got Mail , a somewhat flatfooted update of the charming 1940 Ernst Lubitsch movie The Shop Around the Corner (which was also the source material for the even more charming 1963 Broadway musical She Loves Me ). You've Got Mail updated the earlier film's epistolary plot (two shopkeepers hate each other by day, each not knowing the other is the correspondent to whom he/she sends anonymous love letters by night) for the Internet age; in the new version, the two swapped messages via AOL.

  • Ephron has diluted the drama even more by making her cyberchums (Hanks and Ryan) friendly, down-to-earth, and adorable, not at all the sorts who'd save their true selves for their electronic epistles.

  • --Nora Ephron


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