Example sentences for: impresario

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

  • It has to do with the kidnapping of the young wife of a millionaire (also named Lebowski) and debts owed to a porn impresario.

  • A piece in the Washington Post notes the demise of rap impresario Puff Daddy--the Skip Gates of hip-hop.

  • He's the modern-day impresario of black culture, the Joyce Carol Oates of black studies, producing with daunting regularity.

  • Look at Boxcar Bertha , a throwaway piece of apprentice-work he made for schlock impresario Roger Corman in the early '70s (if you've never seen it, imagine Bonnie and Clyde remade as an episode of Kung Fu ), and then look at The Last Temptation of Christ , the controversial, deeply personal rendering of Nikos Kazantzakis' novel which infuriated some Christians a decade and a half later.

  • He was an impresario and a brand name, hiring talented assistants (several of whom went on to become major photographers in their own right) to shoot, color, and otherwise alter first daguerreotypes, and then--Brady was always up on the latest technical innovations--stereographs, ambrotypes, Imperial salted paper prints, and other photographic exotica.


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