Example sentences for: greene

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

  • It is there in Graham Greene's pre-WWII novel Stamboul Train , with its picture of the greasy currant merchant.

  • Raves for director Neil Jordan's ( The Crying Game ) "hauntingly beautiful" (Cathleen McGuigan, Newsweek ) adaptation of a Graham Greene novel.

  • The latest installment in the Grisham legal thriller franchise gets good press: It's "personal, moving and much deeper" than his previous books, writes Deirdre Donahue in USA Today . Critics say this one is better because Grisham goes beyond his usual dabbling in social causes and injects honest-to-God Christian spirituality, and with success: "Grisham's smart use of the suspense novel to explore questions of being and faith puts him squarely in the footsteps of Dickens and Graham Greene" ( Publishers Weekly ). A few reviewers find the overt Christianity preachy and self-righteous, but most say it improves an otherwise standard page-turner.

  • Fiennes is superb at jealousy, and even better when he has to fulminate at something so intangible and yet (to Greene) so irrefutable as the existence of God.

  • The glory of the book--of most of Greene's books--is in the dialogue, in which all that vague spiritual yearning coalesces into candor so biting that it still has the power to shock.


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