Example sentences for: mpaa

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

  • But if the MPAA is puritanically intolerant of sex, it also has peculiar notions of "acceptable" violence.

  • But Blockbuster and other such outfits have, with the help of the MPAA, given themselves a veneer of righteousness while trafficking in the same kind of sleaze as every other entertainment conglomerate.

  • Under pressure from President Clinton, the leading theater trade association says it will now bar the under-17 crowd from R-rated movies; rumors have it that the MPAA will be stricter about slapping R ratings onto violent movies; Disney plans to stop featuring guns in its marketing materials; and studios have canceled the development of some teen horror movies.

  • Blame Blockbuster, Not the MPAA

  • It was Albert Brooks who pointed out--when his great Lost in America (1985) received a restricted rating from the MPAA for its use of "fuck" in a "sexual context"--that if a character says "I want to fuck you over this desk," the picture will get an R rating, but if he says, "I want to fuck you over with this desk," it will get a PG-13.


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