Example sentences for: magoo

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

  • "He is the Mr. Magoo of scientific theory, genially oblivious to everything he can't or won't see" (Daniel Mendelsohn, the New York Observer ). (In Slate , Steven Pinker praises the book.

  • The Wall Street Journal reports that the National Federation of the Blind is demanding that Disney pull the plug on its planned Christmas release of a Mr. Magoo movie (starring Leslie Nielsen), saying that bringing Magoo back implies that "it's funny to watch an ill-tempered and incompetent blind man stumble into things and misunderstand his surroundings."

  • David Vogel, the president of the studio, has this response: "Magoo is not blind.

  • His picture in the New York Times had something to do with it too: At 75, squinting and overcome with emotion, he looked like a mole emerging from an underground tunnel--or, with his thick eyeglasses and white-fringed bald dome, like Mr. Magoo.


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