Example sentences for: praises

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

  • And an essay praises hyperfiction for blurring the role of writer and reader.

  • Michael Lewis also praises McCain's honesty--and his bravery--in a refreshing NYT Magazine piece that bemoans the dominance of adversarial political journalism.

  • Richard Bernstein praises the novel as "a funny, melancholy, romantic, disturbing, character-rich window on the war" (the New York Times ). But others complain that "the influences of Joseph Heller's classic Catch-22 and Louis de Bernières' recent Corelli's Mandolin are rather too blatantly present" and make the novel feel overly familiar.

  • The massive cover book review praises Justice Antonin Scalia for changing the course of American jurisprudence from "common-law constitutionalism" to "originalism," then blasts him for betraying his own principles: Scalia has abandoned neutrality and now decides cases based on his own political views.

  • A minority praises Jeremy Irons' portrayal of Humbert Humbert--the middle-age professor obsessed with his adolescent stepdaughter--as sufficiently smarmy, and call the film "rich beyond what anyone could have expected" (Caryn James, the New York Times ). (Read Louis Menand's review in Slate .)


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