Example sentences for: genres

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

  • I don't follow pop music much these days, but the genres that are most interesting to me in a larger cultural and political sense are techno and hip-hop.

  • For the voyeur--especially the prissy, law-abiding voyeur such as me--few literary genres satisfy as much as the prison memoir.

  • An interesting mix of genres (vampire and Western) winds up as a hokey mess: "[T]his gummy mix of fake-Catholic mumbo jumbo and teeth-in-neck horror goes limp" (Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly ). "[T]he unintended campiness of Vampires makes Night of the Living Dead look like an episode of Nightline " (Michael O'Sullivan, the Washington Post ). But Gene Siskel praises the film, calling it "surprisingly entertaining" ( Chicago Tribune ). (Watch the trailer.)

  • But Levinthal's soft-focus experiments with '50s bathing-beauty dolls posing on piles of sand ("American Beauties," [1989-90]) and Japanese mail-order bondage toys ("Desire," [1990-91]) don't go much beyond the genres they mimic.

  • This is a forum for independent artists in all genres and has work for many different tastes.


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