Example sentences for: originality

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

  • In truth, with the exception of 13-year-old girls, there is no social subspecies more slavish to fashion, more terrified of originality and more devoted to group-think.

  • Mainly this is because leading university departments value technical skill and originality rather than ideology (in fact, the profession is startlingly apolitical, given how politics-driven economics is outside the ivory tower).

  • The foursome's live shows, most recently Saigon Suicide Squad and Bucket of Truth , win applause for their originality, cleverness, and flair for the anarchic.

  • Some find it "spellbinding," with "a solemn eroticism [that] sometimes recalls The Elephant Man " (Joe Morgenstern, the Wall Street Journal ). Others say the "slapped-on eeriness peels away to reveal little more than simplistic dramatic ploys" and that it is "neither weighty nor as weird as it would like to think" (Dennis Lim, the Village Voice ). The balance tips slightly in the film's favor: The New York Times ' Maslin writes that the film "has style, gravity and originality to spare ...

  • Perhaps I'm the only one out here who thinks Generation-X bashing has lost its sheen of originality, but that's just what Kinsley indulges in with his reference to the "particular generational self-pity" of Gen-Xers.


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