Example sentences for: reportorial

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

  • All these cases warrant attention, but the explosion of numbers may be caused by the growing reportorial sensitivity of professionals, that is, "definitional creep."

  • On the positive side, "Faludi's reportorial and literary skills unfold with a breathtaking confidence and beauty" (Elizabeth Gleick, Time ). More often, though, critics call the book "didactic and highly simplistic" (Kakutani, the New York Times ). Judith Shulevitz finds a flaw at the center of Faludi's thesis: She "assumes something that's no longer true: that America is in the throes of downsizing and loss"; and her focus on the marginalized and downsized distorts her view: "she should have said she was talking about class; she claimed to be talking about gender" (the New York Times Book Review ). (Click here to listen to an interview with Faludi.)

  • As Chatterbox wrote recently in the New Republic (tragically, the article isn't online), Chatterbox believes the sensible reportorial response to Bush's selective silence should be: 1) Yes, Bush probably used cocaine sometime in his life; and 2) who cares?

  • Anyone who knew Tony Lukas even slightly was deeply impressed by his boundless, open-minded curiosity about the injustices of modern life, along with his stubborn reportorial integrity about getting to the very bottom of any story as best he could.

  • It reads as a reportorial essay, in contrast to the Harmon story, which is much more of a straight newsy item.


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