Example sentences for: voight

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

  • 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."

  • I don't know whom I adored more: Billy Bob Thornton as a greasy hick with a whiff of Tales From the Crypt -style demonism; Nick Nolte, as a skeletal, gravel-voiced albino who could be John Huston after a decade of being eaten by worms; or Jon Voight, as a blind half-Indian whose portentous utterances are both full of crap and eerily abstruse.

  • 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.

  • 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 ...


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