Example sentences for: rattigan

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

  • In choosing to adapt and direct The Winslow Boy , based on one of Rattigan's most tidily crafted problem pieces, Mamet points up an aspect of his own work that has increasingly dwarfed all others: the drama as a procession of archly formal negotiations.

  • Who'd have thought that Mamet was secretly in love with the well-carpentered, '40s and '50s drawing-room plays of the terribly English Terence Rattigan, whom the Angry Young Men of the late '50s loutishly blew off the boards--thus paving the way for Mamet's expletive-laced theater games?

  • If only Rattigan had given him a stronger second act!

  • David Mamet directs a G-rated family drama, based on Terrence Rattigan's 1946 play about a schoolboy accused of petty theft and the legal battle that blossoms in the accusation's wake.


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