Example sentences for: hipster

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

  • Cat , dig , and hipster are enjoying a resurgence.

  • Outrage greets the stodgy museum's exhibition of brash, hipster "Britpack" artists.

  • Always read "more for his trend-setting insights than his novelistic dexterity," he loses his hipster cred with this novel "by jumping on the already tired beauty-pageant-bashing bandwagon" ( Publishers' Weekly ). Even worse, "his brand labels are just slightly faded," and the story feels "curiously clipped and uptight" (Tom Shone, the New York Times ). On a more positive note, many also point out that despite his faux pas, Coupland has put together "a brilliant set of riffs" on pop culture and Hollywood life (James Poniewozik, Time ). (Click here to see some of the furniture the author has designed.)

  • But his performance is pure Kramer, "a hipster doofus just the same" (Rita Kempley, the Washington Post ). Even British director Jonathan Lynn is forgiven for indulging in the same lawyer jokes and romantic-comedy subplots he used in My Cousin Vinny . (Click here for the Trial and Error site.)

  • It has stu-freakin'-pendous special effects, hipster sang-froid out the wazoo and a story line that makes only as much sense as it has to" (Michael O'Sullivan, the Washington Post ). A grudgingly appreciative Janet Maslin says that at its best the movie brings "Hong Kong action style home to audiences in a mainstream American adventure with big prospects as a cult classic and with the future very much in mind" (the New York Times ). Others criticize the convoluted story line and call it strictly genre and strictly for "guys in their teens and 20s, for whom the script's pretentious mumbo-jumbo of undergraduate mythology, religious mysticism and technobabble could even be a plus rather than a dramatic liability" (Todd McCarthy, Daily Variety ). (To see the trailer and some fine Keanu pics, visit this fan site; check out David Edelstein's in Slate .)


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