Example sentences for: newsday

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

  • After two highly acclaimed story collections, this "young Mozart of Jewish fiction" (Judith Dunford, Newsday ) has written a warm, subtle, understated novel about the daily lives of a group of Orthodox Jews who summer in a small town in the Catskills.

  • "[E]ven the laugh tracks are wondering what they're laughing at," says Newsday 's Marvin Kitman.

  • This one--an 1888 symphony by a French Romantic composer--is called an "interesting failure" (Bernard Holland, the New York Times ). Its overwrought, "meandering" score (Martin Bernheimer, Newsday ) is accompanied by a highly praised and newly commissioned narration of the Psyché myth by playwright John Guare ( Six Degrees of Separation ).

  • Billed as the first feature film by Native Americans, this picaresque tale wins reviewers' admiration for being "palpably authentic" (Richard Schickel, Time ). Critics like the story, about a young man and his friend who set out to retrieve his father's ashes, for eschewing "the high seriousness and dubious mysticism" of most films about the Indians' plight (John Anderson, Newsday ). Although everyone enjoys its wry humor and cutting observations about life on the reservation, a few say its aimless plot betrays its makers' inexperience.

  • The NYT reports that recently after a Newsday columnist criticized a multi-part series his paper did, the writers of the series sent him a pig's head in a box.


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