Example sentences for: terence

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  • Terence Blanchard's music strikes the same note of mournful counterpoint again and again, and the picture teems with conscious and unconscious echoes of Mean Streets (1973) and Taxi Driver (1976); it could have been called Summer of Scorsese . A sequence of punk thrashing and shooting-up set to The Who's "Baba O'Riley" brings the narrative to an embarrassing halt: It's just Spike flexing his cinematic muscles, showing how much montage he can bench press.

  • Few others go so far in their praise, but most express a certain awe at this '60s-style revenge movie starring Terence Stamp as an ex-con out to whack his daughter's boyfriend and probable killer (Peter Fonda).

  • In outline, The Limey is a lean little B-movie revenge melodrama about a felonious Brit (Terence Stamp) who's newly sprung from prison and flies to Southern California to get to the bottom of his beautiful daughter's death: "My name's Wilson ...

  • Who'd have thought that Mamet was secretly in love with the well-carpentered, '40s and '50s drawing-room plays of the terribly English Terence Rattigan, whom the Angry Young Men of the late '50s loutishly blew off the boards--thus paving the way for Mamet's expletive-laced theater games?

  • In the '60s, an Englishman named Terence Conran opened a store in London called Habitat, selling what has come to be called "transitional" furniture--mixable pieces so neutral and inoffensive they could fit into any environment.


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