Example sentences for: rousing

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

  • The rebellion was crushed, Dhaskaloyiánnis was flayed alive, and the event became the subject of a rousing epic poem.

  • The picture has one of the oldest pulp plots in the business, last used to rousing effect in John Carpenter's Escape From New York (1981): A convict is sprung from prison, promised liberty by an untrustworthy government in return for accomplishing a morally ambiguous task that no one else can do, given a strict deadline, and ruthlessly monitored by his ex-captors.

  • Apart from the music played in the big cities and the sophisticated music of the Brahmanic tradition, you can listen to the folk music of Rajasthan, rousing or plaintive, in the desert around Jaisalmer.

  • During the congressional deliberations on whether to approve the use of force to drive Iraq from Kuwait, House Speaker Tom Foley delivered a rousing call for bipartisan patriotism.

  • John Woo, its director, has long demonstrated a rousing indifference to mere reality, and this movie--in which the characters routinely somersault through the air firing guns from both hands--is just his latest salute to impossible, operatic violence.


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