Example sentences for: hanks

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

  • Some are moved by the film's themes of redemption and spirituality; Roger Ebert says it's full of "vivid characters, humor, outrage and emotional release" (the Chicago Sun-Times ). Less kind reviews note the "inadvertently racist overtones" of the relationship between Hanks and Duncan (Janet Maslin, the New York Times ) and say the movie has the "suffocating deliberateness of a river of molasses" (Kenneth Turan, the Los Angeles Times ). (David Edelstein the movie in Slate : "not all of the movie is melodramatic, pseudo-mystical drivel--only about two hours and 15 minutes."

  • The film chronicles the time served on death row by a massive, simple, and saintly black man (Michael Duncan) convicted of molesting and murdering two young girls, as well as his relationship with his white jailer, played by Tom Hanks.

  • Hanks and Hodges and de Felice say that most of these nicknames could also be bestowed ironically.

  • Hanks is a bugaboo for me--sorry if I got off track.

  • Scorsese keeps working too--upcoming projects include Gangs of New York , with Leonardo DiCaprio, and a Dean Martin biopic starring Tom Hanks.


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