Example sentences for: upbeat

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

  • And it's also true that a studio such as Warner Bros. would never have spent $50 million on a film that didn't have a conventionally rabble-rousing outline and an upbeat finish.

  • The upbeat spin: Nagano's bid was more honest than Salt Lake City's.

  • Sheehy's diagnosis of the first lady-slash-senatorial candidate has the compelling obviousness of good local gossip, though with the upbeat ending you'd expect from an author whose message has consistently been, The more intense the suffering, the better the chance to grow .

  • The once miserable wasteland of run-down warehouses, lumber-mills, factories, and railyards has been reclaimed not only for the upbeat commercial enterprises that are now a familiar feature of any Canadian city with a waterfront, but also as a handsome residential neighborhood.

  • Most critics report mixed reactions: "[T]his handsome, airtight meditation on art, celebrity, love, and rampant repertory-group horniness indulges in a lot of very American navel gazing" (Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly ). Janet Maslin gives the film its most upbeat review, calling it an "enormously fond homage to the world of acting, beguilingly presented and filled with knowing backstage humor" (the New York Times ). Two stars get special note for their performances: Christopher Walken as a flamboyantly foppish critic and Susan Sarandon as an aging but still dynamite diva.


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