Example sentences for: hooch

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

  • The enigmatic figure with his back turned to us that we see down so many of de Hooch's recessions may suggest an escape route, but there's no promise that where he's headed is any different from here.

  • "Most of his art expresses a clear moral point of view," writes Peter Sutton, director of the Wadsworth Atheneum and the world's leading authority on de Hooch, "above all of the values of patriarchal Dutch society and their celebration of domestic virtue."

  • Current critical consensus is that de Hooch was the innovator, Vermeer the perfecter, while current taste (as evidenced by the overwhelming attendance at the Vermeer show in Washington three years ago) prefers Vermeer.

  • If we accept the view of de Hooch advanced by the Hartford show and catalog, as a propagandist for Dutch family values, it's hard to explain the peculiar hold that his paintings have, or ought to have, on us.

  • If we compare the two painters on Vermeer's terms--mystery, glamour, serenity, simplicity of design--de Hooch is the inevitable loser.


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