Example sentences for: plaudits

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  • Plaudits go to rookie British director Richard Kwietniowski for deploying "exactly calibrated bursts of dry wit" (Kenneth Turan, the Los Angeles Times ). But the highest praise goes to character actor John Hurt's wry depiction of the writer.

  • Unlike most films about evangelicalism, it is not a condescending "put-down of redneck religion" (David Ansen, Newsweek ). The most vigorous plaudits go to Duvall's performance; critics predict that it will revive his career from a slump and win him an Oscar nomination.

  • It alone "truly exceeded its advance hype," says People . Canadian director Atom Egoyan's The Sweet Hereafter, about a school-bus accident, also impresses critics, winning him plaudits as a "postmodern Hitchcock" (Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly ). Other favorites include Donnie Brasco, The Wings of the Dove, and Face/Off, while the well-reviewed Boogie Nights and Titanic both fail to make many lists.

  • He has won plaudits for his tough anti-China stance.

  • The Harvard Law professor's book on race gets plaudits for its equal-opportunity attacks on both the left (for tendentiously seeing racism everywhere) and the right (for willfully seeing racism nowhere).


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