Example sentences for: farrelly

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

  • That description is more bitter than anything in the film, but it does suggest how Farrelly kept life among the urban unwashed from crushing his soul: He cultivated a caustic sense of humor.

  • Goldie Hawn and Steve Martin star in a remake of Neil Simon's 1970 film that's "so feeble and unfocussed as to make the Farrelly brothers of There's Something About Mary appear to have suckled at the bosom of Aristophanes" (Lawrence Van Gelder, the New York Times ). All critics agree; few put it so well.

  • The movie is based on a terse, bleakly funny 1988 novel by Peter Farrelly, who, with his brother Bobby, wrote and directed Dumb and Dumber (1994) and There's Something About Mary (1998).

  • A "rancid little nothing of a movie" (Stephen Holden, the New York Times ) that's a grim, gross wannabe Farrelly brothers flick.

  • (Click here to read an interview with the Farrelly brothers, and to read David Edelstein's rave in Slate .)


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