Example sentences for: snipes

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  • 8. Snipes.

  • Hughes-hater Hilton Kramer, writing in the New York Observer , snipes that "American Visions simply--and very simply at times--ratifies the establishment vision of what counts in recent American art," and the Wall Street Journal 's Ann Berman and the Weekly Standard 's David Gelernter also get in their digs.

  • Her appearance is a needless affront to the president and the presidency, say Carlson and Jack Germond ( Inside Washington ). Tony Blankley (CNN's Late Edition ) sat next to her at dinner and reports she "carried herself like a lady," in contrast to certain vulgar attendees who booed her and made classist snipes about her appearance.

  • Naysayers: "[S]trictly Batman revisited" (Dave Kehr, New York Daily News ). Advocates: "[P]ure visceral imagery" (Roger Ebert, the Chicago Sun-Times ). The eponymous hero is a tortured half-vampire (Wesley Snipes) on a classic comic book mission to rid the world of his more murderous brethren.

  • Critics feel Wesley Snipes lacks the gravitas to replace Harrison Ford as a falsely accused man on the lam, though some claim that Tommy Lee Jones, as the U.S. marshal who chases him, saves the film.


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