Example sentences for: fulminations

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

  • It "plays like a dead battery disguised as an objet d'art " (Jay Carr, the Boston Globe ). They are especially irked by the movie's artsy pretensions (Pip is turned into a tortured painter) and earnestness (its un-Dickensian fulminations about undying love), as well as flat performances by Ethan Hawke and Gwyneth Paltrow.

  • The unnoted ironies pile up: Their fulminations notwithstanding, both McGreevey and Andrews have received better-than-average ratings from green groups.

  • Janet McTeer's Broadway performance in Ibsen's A Doll's House , on the other hand, has been both widely honored and roundly reviled--she won the Tony for best actress last Sunday, but among the reviews were several sputtering fulminations.

  • Maslin, however, instigates the backlash against the backlash, calling Stewart an "easy target," undeserving of such outraged fulminations: "Now it can be told: little Martha Stewart ate Gulden's mustard on white bread as an after-school snack."

  • The book itself--about "high-maintenance women" such as Amy Fisher and Sylvia Plath--is said by some reviewers to consist of inchoate fulminations on feminism and familiar rants on being single.


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