Example sentences for: voight

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

  • The movie "has, like the killing-machine beast itself, the brutal efficiency of single-mindedness" (Terrence Rafferty, The New Yorker ). Voight's overwrought performance has a "kitschy glory" (Joe Morgenstern, the Wall Street Journal ). It all harks back to the "kind of retro, eek!

  • Jon Voight gives a fine understated performance as a police inspector, Brendan Gleeson's turn as Cahill is a "tour de force ...

  • To monitor his movements, the authorities appoint an inspector (an amusingly sober Jon Voight, reunited with Boorman for the first time since the 1972 Deliverance ), who soon has the resources to post cops on Cahill's back fence and on the street in front of his house, and to follow him and his gang wherever they go.

  • When you see this snake swallow Jon Voight and then regurgitate him in front of Jennifer Lopez like a cat presenting a dead bird, when you see Voight give a little ironic wink before collapsing to the floor and dying in a puddle of digestive slime, you are witnessing one of those classic I-Don't-Think-So moments that help define the contemporary moviegoing experience.

  • first rate" (Dreher, the New York Post ), and the photography is a "seductively beautiful black and white" (Janet Maslin, the New York Times ). The New Republic 's Stanley Kauffmann gives the film its only pan, saying that Voight performs well below his abilities and that Boorman's directing is a "disappointment."


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