Example sentences for: lolita

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

  • Film director Stanley Kubrick died . Obituaries recalled his movies' eight Academy Awards, focusing on Dr. Strangelove , A Clockwork Orange , and 2001: A Space Odyssey , also mentioning Lolita and The Shining . Commentators debated the significance of the bleak fantasies in which he portrayed human recklessness, madness, brutality, murder, and nuclear holocaust.

  • "A happy exception to the rule that any movie with 'sex' in the title must be mediocre" (Andrew Sarris, the New York Observer ). A precocious 16-year-old, played by Christina Ricci--"Lolita's evil twin" (Janet Maslin, the New York Times )--runs off with her gay brother's lover.

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  • In recognition of this achievement, the lepidopterists have christened some recently discovered specimens of the Polyommatini with Nabokovian names, such as Madeleinea lolita .

  • Now that Schiff has become a big-deal screenwriter (his Lolita generated scads of ink and his adaptation of True Crime , directed by and starring Clint Eastwood, opens next week), it's as if those last 17 years didn't happen.


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