Example sentences for: shining

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

  • His most uncanny disclosures came not in the obvious transcendentalism of 2001 but in The Shining --which, barring some last miracle in the forthcoming Eyes Wide Shut , ought to be his masterpiece.

  • The paper also quoted the Irish Nobel Prize-winning poet Seamus Heaney welcoming the agreement with a quotation from the epic Anglo-Saxon poem "Beowulf": "A light appeared and the whole place became brightened the way the sky does when heaven's candle is shining brightly."

  • Television -- A Bright Shining Lie (HBO) and Thanks of a Grateful Nation (Showtime);

  • The most vivid moments in Kubrick's films in the last 30 years have come when he has turned his actor's faces into masks: Think of Malcolm McDowell in A Clockwork Orange (1971), Jack Nicholson in The Shining (1980), and Vincent D'Onofrio in Full Metal Jacket (1987).


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