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.

  • 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.

  • By the final confrontation with her husband, McTeer has so skillfully foreshadowed Nora's transformation that, though it seems bewilderingly abrupt to her, it seems emotionally inevitable to us.

  • And even as she proclaims her happiness, McTeer's Nora reaches compulsively for her macaroons with a hint of voracity that hints at her dissatisfaction.

  • (McTeer's decision to play Nora's marriage as erotically electric makes Nora's decision to leave all the more difficult, and all the more shattering.)


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