Example sentences for: reprise

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

  • A WP reader notes that in the paper's recent reprise of three 20-year-old stories about Skylab, none of the stories gave the same weight for the space craft.

  • Never before has a U.N. court been able to punish the actions of individuals . Both right- and left-wingers worry that the new U.N. tribunals will reprise the flaws of the Nuremberg and Tokyo trials, attempting to make political points and failing to adequately protect the rights of the accused.

  • In a legal sense, the Jones proceeding is an apple to Starr's orange, claims Charles Krauthammer ( Inside Washington ). Most pundits point out--sometimes ominously, sometimes dismissively--that no one has seen Starr's cards: They may show "Lizzie Borden in drag" (Shields, PBS's NewsHour With Jim Lehrer ). Three conservatives proclaim their confidence that Starr holds enough to undo Clinton's presidency (Robert Novak, Capital Gang ; Fred Barnes and John McLaughlin, The McLaughlin Group ). Stuart Taylor wrote as much this week in the National Journal and appears on This Week to reprise the point.

  • Director Joe Dante is chided for wasting realistic special effects and the voices of Tommy Lee Jones and Ernest Borgnine and for failing to reprise the biting humor of his magnum opus, Gremlins . Critics dwell on the irony of the late Phil Hartman's character getting caught in crossfire.

  • Yet, in A Matter of Interpretation , his reprise of the traditional jeremiad against judicial usurpation concludes with a twist.


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