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Example sentences for: rourke
How can you use “rourke” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
O'Rourke once said of a Honda Prelude: It looks good from the front, it looks good from the back, it looks good from the top and the sides.
Jack O'Rourke, who saw Mr. Shawn nearly every day from his cart outside the New Yorker offices, remembers him as a cold, taciturn man, who rarely said more than, "A bag of nuts, please," or "I think I'll have some of those tasty nuts."
And on it goes, a list of nose-wrinkling quibbles you can still hear today: We're mercenary, self-centered, impolite, and worst of all, too bourgeois to understand the geniuses of our age, such as Jerry Lewis and Mickey Rourke.
He gives high marks to Sharon Stone's "light-handed surgical touch" but pans Mickey Rourke, whose "skin is pulled back so tightly he looks like a lizard."
The press in the US is virtually enjoined these days from identifying people by race in the text of articles, a practice that has extended to the banning of songs and spirituals like Ol' Black Joe . But that is got round either by showing a photograph or by making certain that we learn the subject's name is Wong Fu, Takashimaya, Goldberg, O'Rourke, Nielsen, Gandhi, Rashid, Zbigniew, Molotov , etc., though one is less likely these days to be able to identify race, color, or ethnicity from certain names (like Livingston, for example).
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