Example sentences for: soap

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

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  • Critics are amused but not impressed: It's an "energetic and diverting sports soap opera" (Kenneth Turan, the Los Angeles Times ). Al Pacino plays an aging coach whose balance is upset when his two top quarterbacks get injured and he's forced to put in the untried Jamie Foxx--in a "standout performance" (Mike Clark, USA Today ). From here the film "develops into a kind of mega- Rocky " (Stephen Holden, the New York Times ) complete with crucial last-minute plays.

  • (Tidbits: Thurgood Marshall spent his days watching soap operas; Justices O'Connor and Kennedy are known as intellectual midgets.)

  • "[L]ike Beckett written for soap opera," says Lyons; its "sometimes poetic, sometimes pseudo-poetic, and intermittently flat prose" seems a pale imitation of, alternately, Eugene O'Neill, James Joyce, Hugh Leonard, Brian Friel, and Shakespeare, says Simon.

  • The only difference between this and a conventional soap opera (or, for that matter, an episode of The Love Boat ) is that Carroll doesn't spell out the interrelationship among the couples until the final scene, a symbolic remarriage in which the characters realize that talking about love might be as futile as dancing about architecture, but you have to do it anyway if your life is going to mean anything.


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