Example sentences for: mckellen

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

  • A teen-ager (Brad Renfro) discovers an old Nazi war criminal (Ian McKellen) living under a false name in his town and blackmails him into giving detailed accounts of Nazi atrocities.

  • Anticipating similar sales, Viking shipped 27,000 copies of The Odyssey to bookstores and 10,000 copies of a tape of the actor Ian McKellen reading it.

  • Renfro offers up the "dead-eyed sang-froid only a 16-year-old suburbanite can pull off" (Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly ), and McKellen is called "a supremely gifted actor at the top of his form" (Jay Carr, the Boston Globe ). The film is said to be uneven, though, and when you add directorial missteps to the uncomfortable subject matter, the result is pans mixed with queasily laudatory reviews.

  • Meryl Streep in Dancing at Lughnasa ? Ian McKellen in Gods and Monsters ? Leonardo DiCaprio in Celebrity ? Damn worthy actors.

  • As Whale, McKellen wears his elegance lightly.


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