Example sentences for: fey

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

  • The richness of language, image, and imagination all contrast with her austerities and stringencies: Nothing could be further from the beloved middlebrow notion of Dickinson as a charmingly dotty, fey spinster or wistful girl, all eccentricity and repression.

  • Since the mid-1940s, when he went to Paris to capture the revitalization of French couture--a moment captured in Stanley Donen's 1957 film Funny Face , for which Avedon served as visual consultant, and in which Fred Astaire plays a fey, charming photographer named Dick Avery--Avedon has produced a staggering corpus of fashion and commercial photography.

  • Losing his life savings to a menacingly fey Russian gangster (John Malkovich) in the first 10 minutes, Damon's Mike has you rooting for him not only to get payback from the weird Russki but to take what he can off anyone dumb enough to sit across a card table from him, accepting the rightness of the line "It's immoral to let a sucker keep his money."

  • Representatives of the Devil, naturally, do all they can to make that happen, while God's servants--among them Alan Rickman as the resonant and wearily fey "Voice of God," Salma Hayek as a slinky muse, and Chris Rock as the "Thirteenth Apostle" (the black one expunged from Scripture)--struggle to stave off Armageddon.


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