Example sentences for: genre--the

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

  • The film has all the commonplaces of the genre--the party that utterly trashes someone's parents' house, the voyeuristic visit to the girl's locker room, the guys betting about getting laid, and the happy comic resolution: The geek beds the prom queen, Ringwald lands the cute senior.

  • Those who agitate loudest to get the soundtrack recognized as the great modern genre--the conductor John Mauceri, for example--betray a prejudice toward music that is independent, nonreferential, and pure.

  • Incidentally, did anybody see a remarkable Australian movie about an intense, and doomed, love affair called Praise ? Because its frankness and heat bring to mind another suffering genre--the adult-relationship film.

  • Maybe this movie will be the first in a modest new genre--the inquiry into adult happiness.


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