Example sentences for: travers

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

  • to take a guess at what Peter Travers said in Rolling Stone , is 'like Les Liaisons Dangereuses , but much, much hipper!

  • The three-candidate runoff that results is a loose parody of the '96 presidential election, which makes for "a moral fable with rare comic bite" (Peter Travers, Rolling Stone ). ( Slate 's David Edelstein the film "exuberantly caustic."

  • It's a trick other people have used--P.L. Travers, in the Mary Poppins books, for example, always has a chapter in which one of the kids loses her temper, one in which we visit a relative of Mary Poppins' for tea, one in which Mary has a birthday, and so on.

  • Congratulations go to this week's winners: Carol Clapp, Gillian Lord (Six Degrees' first Tasmanian winner), Scott Ruthfield, Cathy Smith, Michael Travers, and Derek Willis.

  • Director Alan Rudolph gets credit for trying to adapt Kurt Vonnegut's beloved novel, but critics agree that the result is a "frenzied film that seems both dated and dead on arrival" (Peter Travers, Rolling Stone ). Stephen Holden of the New York Times writes that it "looks and feels like a frantic live-action psychedelic cartoon ...


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