Example sentences for: gee-whiz

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

  • That is, along with the gee-whiz pronouncements about how the economy supposedly works goes a pronounced libertarian bent, a belief that the new economy is too dynamic, organic, or whatever to be regulated from above.

  • The second computer animated ant film of the season is said to be head and thorax above its predecessor, Antz . Aimed at a slightly younger audience, the film bristles with buggy life and packs in the "gee-whiz moments" (Kenneth Turan, the Los Angeles Times ). The critics' one gripe is that there's almost too much happening at once on-screen: It's "so dense with characters and illustrative detail that it nearly chokes on its own banquet" (Richard Corliss, Time ). (Visit the Web site of Pixar, this film's animation studio.)

  • He speaks, says the New York Times ' Stephen Holden, in "a hushed, gee-whiz semi-whisper that's meant to convey profundity but ...

  • Yet here was the New York Times ' lead reviewer, Janet Maslin, almost alone among major critics in showering praise: "[I]t sustains the gee-whiz spirit of the series and offers a swashbuckling extragalactic getaway ...

  • Made with a gee-whiz earnestness and simplicity that's so out of style it's refreshing" (Kenneth Turan, the Los Angeles Times ). Others are more wary of the movie's syrupy core: David Denby says the film is "borderline corny, but I was held by it; I was even moved by it" ( The New Yorker ), and David Edelstein in


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