Example sentences for: pistone

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

  • Pistone, who dislikes the officious superiors in his FBI "family," boasts of having his hooks in Lefty, but comes to dread (and delay) the moment when he'll be pulled out of Operation Donnie Brasco and called upon to bring about his mentor's demise.

  • ) Sprawled on a motel sofa, fielding awestruck questions from a couple of junior FBI agents, Pistone expounds on the meaning of the phrase "Fuh-get about it" (which, depending on one's inflection, can signal fatalistic acceptance, doomed resignation, murderous rage, enthusiastic agreement, or nothing in particular) in a speech that will live long in the hearts of gangster-movie mavens.

  • As written and played, however, Maggie's scenes are intrusions in the best sense: They gnaw on Pistone from another angle; they add a point to the film's complex geometry.

  • Pistone knows that he's exploiting the older man's best, most fatherly instincts, and it tears him up.

  • There's another tortured family, too: Pistone's wife and three daughters, who languish in the absence of a steady father.


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