Example sentences for: rashomon

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

  • Everyone leads with the presidential tape, although true to its Rashomon spirit, no two papers see in it quite the same thing.

  • At one point, Allen gives you several versions of the same climactic scene (it varies according to the historian), and the effect of all those farcical possibilities is elating: a Rashomon -like sequence where you don't give a damn what actually happened.

  • Critics call Gregory ( Selena ) Nava's latest pop-star biopic of doo-wopster Frankie Lymon a sort of "comic Rashomon of rock-and-roll" (Lawrence Van Gelder, the New York Times ). Lymon, who became a star at 13 and died of a drug overdose at 25, married three women without divorcing any of them; only after his death did the three find out about one another.

  • Another Rashomon effect is on display in the papers' treatment of Alan Greenspan's congressional testimony yesterday about the just-announced Clinton proposal to allow some Social Security funds to be invested in the stock market.

  • league of Rashomon .


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