Example sentences for: sophomoric

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

  • Isn't it a little silly that the same sort of people who bitch about school prayer and public-school vouchers spent on religious education are ready to lay down their lives to protect the government's right to subsidize art that desecrates religious figures in the most sophomoric way imaginable?

  • Here's my nominee for worst movie of the year (complete category should be: "Worst Movie of the Year That Assumedly Adult Male Reviewers Slathered Over"): There's Something About Mary --a pathetically sophomoric, penis-obsessed mess that wouldn't even appeal to Larry Flynt!

  • 4. President Clinton feels good about working with Republicans on the budget bill, and encourages you to make up some kind of sophomoric joke about his yen for Megawati Sukarnoputri and Tonya Harding.

  • It is the sophomoric deviousness of the perjury that is an insult to our intelligence.

  • Not surprisingly, a slew of bad reviews for this bottom-feeding comedy about a fish tank cleaner who falls into the gigolo business by accident: "Among devotees of comedy, Deuce Bigalow is for the undemanding" (Lawrence Van Gelder, the New York Times ). Some go so far as to insult the cast, calling star Rob Schneider "a runty fellow of no particular talent" (Susan Wloszczyna, USA Today ). One reviewer pipes up in the movie's defense, calling Deuce "an hour-and-a-half goof on kinky sex, bathroom humor and inner happiness … a considerable cut above the crop of recent features by other SNL alums" (which is not saying much) and that it's "funnier than it deserves to be, not to mention rather sweet in a sophomoric, manwhore-with-a-heart-of-gold kind of way" (Michael O'Sullivan, the Washington Post ). (Click here to find out more about Rob Schneider.)


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