Example sentences for: harrison

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

  • Kathryn Harrison ("I can think of no other writer I'd rather unilaterally disarm," fumes Adam Mazmanian);

  • The basic template seems to be an amalgam of The Wizard of Oz and Happy Days : The relationship between Luke (Mark Hamill) and Han (Harrison Ford) is just the relationship between Richie and the Fonz; the Wookiee is cloned directly from the Cowardly Lion; and the scene in which C-3PO is dismembered by the Sand People is completely appropriated from the scene in which the Scarecrow is dismembered by flying monkeys in The Wizard of Oz . It is true that The Wizard is a story implanted deep in the memory banks of the viewing public--but it is a stretch to call Star Wars ' appeal atavistic.

  • The Washington Post 's Jonathan Yardley defends his attack on Kathryn Harrison's incest memoir against novelist Tobias Wolff's claims that he was motivated by his animus toward memoir as a genre: "The truth, as opposed to Wolff's self-serving fantasy, is that my objections to 'The Kiss' have absolutely nothing to do with its being a memoir per se, or even with its being one of those 'personal writings that have recently found favor with readers.

  • So about all I can do is wonder if Harrison Ford's weary stare would have been as weary if he reversed his word order and intoned, "Success is the pox of celebrity."

  • Well, Oprah" (Mim Udovitch, New York ). The main gripes: that The Kiss represents an act of self-plagiarism, since Harrison's first novel recounts the same story; that her prose is by turns flat and overheated, "chockablock with romance-novel clichés" (Jonathan Yardley, the Washington Post); and that her need to confess is self-indulgent.


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