Example sentences for: shales

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  • It "has heart and charm and not just the usual gag reflex," says the Washington Post 's Tom Shales.

  • Reviews of inaugural pomp (appearances by celebrities Jessye Norman, Antonio Banderas, and Hootie and the Blowfish, as well as a parade) range from outrage at the "unseemly excess" (the Washington Post 's Tom Shales) to boredom, though Norman's rendition of "Amazing Grace" was praised in the Post as "stirring."

  • 3) It "doesn't try hard enough to figure out what made him tick, and tick so loudly" (Tom Shales, the Washington Post ). (Find out more about the movie here; read Sarah Kerr's review in Slate .)

  • Shales, in the Washington Post , says, "NBC has recycled garbage and gotten only new garbage in return."

  • Praise goes to Kirstie Alley, who plays an aging ex-model now in the lingerie business: "Less frenetic than Lucy, more mature than Mary" (Richard Corliss, Time ). The Washington Post 's Tom Shales dissents, calling Alley unwatchably neurotic and "in a virtually perpetual feverish tizzy."


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