Example sentences for: nora

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

  • Nora and Eugene Lum, a Hawaiian couple, raised tons of money from Asian-Americans for the Democratic Party, befriended Ron Brown and other party bigwigs, used these political ties to buy an Oklahoma gas company, and earned a $9 million profit on the deal without lifting a finger.

  • 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.

  • She lowers her voice a full octave and intones the words in a constrained fury--the voice not of Nora but of wronged women forever.

  • McTeer, an English actress who won a 1997 Tony award for her Nora in A Doll's House , gives a performance that is so gorgeously modulated you'll think she has been in movies all her life.

  • But we gradually realize that this Nora, in fact, is playing the role that's expected of her--merely "playing tricks," as she says in the last act--and that there's another Nora beneath the childlike silliness that will astonish even her.


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