Example sentences for: ricky

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

  • And the picture's final encounter, with a grotesquely addled Ricky, feels exploitative.

  • In movies like sex, lies, and videotape (1989), the protagonist has to put away the video camera to "get real"; in American Beauty , it's Ricky Fitts, the damaged stoner videomaker next door, who sees beauty where nonartists see only horror or nothingness.

  • Pop stars periodically reinvent themselves, but even Ricky Nelson's radical decision to drop the "y" and relaunch himself as "Rick Nelson" was accompanied by a switch to gloomier, more adult material by Dylan and Tim Hardin.

  • Ricky might represent how Hannah and Annie could have turned out if they'd let go, if they hadn't overcome their bitterness or helplessness to scale the socioeconomic ladder.

  • The hairpin turns from farce to melodrama, from satire to bathos, are fresh and deftly navigated, but almost every one of the underlying attitudes is smug and easy: from the corporate flunky named "Brad" to the interchangeable gay neighbors (they're both called "Jim") to the brutally homophobic patriarch next door, an ex-Marine colonel (Chris Cooper) who has reduced his wife (the normally exuberant Allison Janney) to a catatonic mummy and his son, Ricky (Bentley), to a life of subterranean deception.


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