Example sentences for: mcteer

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

  • Like Janet McTeer in Tumbleweeds , she plays a woman who's a, well, tumbleweed who gravitates to men she shouldn't gravitate to and takes her long-suffering daughter along for the fall.

  • In the opening scenes, for instance, even as McTeer enacts Nora's dependence on her husband, she shows the cunning that is the only outlet for the character's acute and sensitive mind--submission as manipulation.

  • New York 's John Simon objects to raves about the latest A Doll's House revival, especially those that praise Janet McTeer's Nora: "She lets her hands flutter like Tibetan prayer wheels in a gale, outcoos a turtledove in heat, and flings herself about as if playing racquetball with her own six-foot-plus body.

  • McTeer's solution?

  • She knows nothing of this consciously but, in dozens of such gestures, McTeer reveals the unconscious conflation of Nora's conflicts--the way her wildly unfocused energy is the consequence of her inner turmoil, of both social oppression and emotional repression.


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