Example sentences for: ichabod

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  • In the first killing Ichabod witnesses, the victim's head doesn't just fly off--it spins like a dervish and bounces between Ichabod's legs, where the passing horseman skewers it like a marshmallow.

  • Then Ichabod keels over in a dead faint.

  • Ichabod Crane walks through small doorways into dark-toned rooms where pasty old men in white wigs stare at him balefully and whisper in one another's ears, their bloated waistcoats jiggling.

  • Burton's imagery has an ecstatic intensity; it's too bad that the movie--loosely based on the Irving classic about a ghost who haunts New York's Hudson Valley in the decades after the American Revolution--has been constructed as a sort of proto- Hound of the Baskervilles . In the screenplay, credited to Andrew Kevin Walker ( Seven , 1995) but reportedly rewritten by Tom Stoppard, the schoolteacher Ichabod Crane is now a New York City constable (Johnny Depp) who travels upstate to solve a series of beheadings using the fledgling sciences of pathology and deduction.

  • Burton relishes squirting blood in this know-it-all's face: Ichabod is the movie's dashing hero and also the butt of its jokes.


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