Example sentences for: sayles

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

  • (For more on Sayles, this page has a biography, filmography, and news.)

  • Plotting was never Sayles' forte.

  • As always, critics applaud Sayles' heartfelt liberalism and choice of offbeat subjects, which make him the "most restlessly independent independent filmmaker" (Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly ). But most critics say he "doesn't have a filmmaker's instinct" (Amy Taubin, the Village Voice ). Except in Lone Star , they say, Sayles' dialogue is stilted and his cinematography drab.

  • But Sayles has written some gorgeously tender and funny encounters between him and Mastrantonio.

  • John Sayles, the last proud liberal-feminist, wrote a beautiful part for Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio in Limbo that she turned into one of the comebacks of the decade.


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