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Example sentences for: oeuvre
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Critics rank Spike Lee's Oedipal basketball drama--starring Denzel Washington as a convict and the NBA's Ray Allen as his estranged son--at the top of his oeuvre . After paying Lee's recent films scant attention, they declare him "underrated" and "overlooked" (Janet Maslin, the New York Times ). They're pleased to find that Allen can act, that Washington has a mean streak, and that Lee critiques capitalism more than he does racism.
From what I've read of his oeuvre --two books on Diana, this latest one on Monica--he is our poet of female self-pity, a man for whom no excuse is suspect, no outrage inexplicable, as long as the explanation is given by a woman who can claim to have been hurt by a man, and as long as the man is a prince or a president.
I now have my own literary oeuvre . This entitles me to certain privileges, such as employing foreign words in my writings (see previous sentence) and living on the Upper West Side of Manhattan.
Those who've had experiences with amphetamines can recognize some characteristics of Kubrick's oeuvre : the brilliance and exactitude of individual sequences in what was often a sour, fuzzy whole.
Like the first names of dead economists, the blizzard of statistics that blows through Kemp's oeuvre of op-eds gives an impression of learning.