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Example sentences for: matinee

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It was a special matinee, under the auspices of the Stage Society, with a cast drawn exclusively from children of prominent theatrical families.
-Deeply discounting student matinee tickets for children to see a play - as low as $8.
Critics bemoan the absence of songs in this latest film depiction of the romance between British widow Anna Leonowens and King Mongkut of Siam, familiar to most viewers through the musical The King and I . Critics contend that leads Jodie Foster and Chow Yun-Fat have weak chemistry and that the film is "a luxuriant, lumbering behemoth … pleasant, occasionally amusing--and often dull" (Andy Seiler, USA Today ). Roger Ebert gives a surprisingly harsh review: "It is an exotic escapist entertainment for matinee ladies, who can fantasize about sex with that intriguing bald monster and indulge their harem fantasies" (the Chicago Sun-Times ). Jay Carr of the Boston Globe dissents from the pack, calling the film "a lot more than The King and I minus Rodgers's and Hammerstein's music.
-Discounted student matinee Mainstage performances, where 4,000 students saw Pygmalion and 11 ,400 are scheduled to see A Christmas Carol.
Still, Francis Collins, the guru of the Human Genome Project at NIH, which is sequencing and identifying all human genes, was intrigued enough to see Gattaca twice, the second time leading a matinee field trip of 60 NIH scientists and staff.