Example sentences for: mendes

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

  • Spacey acts with "heavenly finesse" (Janet Maslin, the New York Times ), and Annette Bening as his high-strung wife is "spectacular" (Mike Clark, USA Today ). The director, Sam Mendes, and writer, Alan Ball, are new to film--they're stage and television veterans, respectively--and many critics say that's why the film feels so fresh.

  • More important, it has a vein of metaphysical yearning, which the director, Sam Mendes, mines brilliantly.

  • Critics say Mendes improves upon the 1972 film version of the musical, which starred Liza Minnelli, by rendering it dark and raunchy.

  • Mendes can distend the real into the surreal with imperceptible puffs.

  • It's amazing that Mendes and Ball get away with recycling so many stale and reactionary ideas under the all-purpose rubric of "black comedy."


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