Example sentences for: strangelove

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

  • Film director Stanley Kubrick died . Obituaries recalled his movies' eight Academy Awards, focusing on Dr. Strangelove , A Clockwork Orange , and 2001: A Space Odyssey , also mentioning Lolita and The Shining . Commentators debated the significance of the bleak fantasies in which he portrayed human recklessness, madness, brutality, murder, and nuclear holocaust.

  • The other, John Von Neumann, may not have been clinically insane, but he did serve as the real-life model for the title character in Stanley Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove .

  • The director of A Clockwork Orange , 2001: A Space Odyssey , and Dr. Strangelove Or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb was universally hailed for a famously uncompromising vision.

  • That tone would have been a snap for Kubrick in the days of The Killing (1956), Lolita (1962), and Dr. Strangelove (1964), and a stretch after 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), when his storytelling acquired an all-purpose lugubriousness.

  • Lyndon Johnson's camp portrayed the Republican senator as a trigger-happy Strangelove likely to blow up the world.


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