Example sentences for: santoro

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

  • Raves, however, for Nicolas Cage's performance as the sleazy, brown polyester clad Rick Santoro, a crooked local cop: Jay Carr of the Boston Globe glows, "[Cage] suggests an oven-fresh, cheese-filled, glazed meatloaf."

  • Sporting a loud orange rayon jacket with a Hawaiian shirt, the brazenly corrupt Santoro pummels a bookie (Luis Guzmán) and extorts a wad of cash, hollers encouragement to the rabbit-punching champ (Stan Shaw), and gives high-fives to his righteous-dude buddy, Navy Cmdr.

  • Santoro's high-tech odyssey and the movie's themes don't intersect as they did in Blow Out (1981), and the climax doesn't unify the movie's visuals--the way the angled escalators in the shootout of Carlito's Way (1993) were like a grand, trigonometric punch line.

  • De Palma holds on Santoro even when the bout begins and the crowd goes nuts at what they see (but we can't)--and even when shots ring out and blood begins to gush from the secretary of Defense's throat.

  • The more perspectives the sleazy Santoro gets, the more he understands what actually happened "before his very eyes"--and the more unhinged he becomes at the prospect of having to be a hero.


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