Example sentences for: orson

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

  • A NYT Arts & Leisure piece tells the story behind the recent revival of Orson Welles' last Hollywood feature film, "Touch of Evil."

  • He missed the mark a few times--John Steinbeck and Orson Welles didn't fellow-travel very far.

  • Based on Orson Welles' 58 page memo detailing his objections to the studio's cut of his much-tinkered-with 1958 noir classic, this re-edited version "unspools with all the complex, unnerving menace and nihilistic subtext its writer-director had in mind all along" (Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly ). Critics take the occasion to rethink the movie itself: "A jammed, discordant, discomforting experience--a nightmare, in fact, but a nightmare that leaves in the wake of many complications a moral significance of disturbing perversity and brilliance" (Denby).

  • A biographer of William Randolph Hearst claimed that Citizen Kane screenwriters Orson Wells and Herman Mankiewicz plagiarized him.

  • As Orson Welles put it, all 58-odd million of them are actors, with only a few bad ones, and those, he added most unfairly, are found on the stage and in films.


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