Example sentences for: promesse

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

  • Movie -- La Promesse ;

  • As in the La Promesse , the point is to show how capitalism is fundamentally at odds with human decency.

  • Throughout this terse, entertaining parable (it won the grand prize at this year's Cannes Film Festival), the Belgian-born writer-directors Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne ( La Promesse , 1996) immerse you in the sensations of Rosetta's life: her daily, roundabout slog through the woods to reach the trailer park where she lives with her alcoholic mother (she's too ashamed to go through the front entrance); her frustrating treks to find employment, however menial; and, most of all, her countless rages at a society that refuses to grant her a "normal" (her word) existence.

  • Both Rosetta and La Promesse end at the point when their protagonist's consciousness begins.


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