Example sentences for: weaver

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

  • Ryder and Weaver have exchanges as stilted as anything in Plan 9 From Outer Space --surprisingly, since Whedon (who wrote Buffy the Vampire Slayer , Toy Story , and did the uncredited rewrite of Speed ) has a pretty good ear.

  • This gentle Star Trek spoof strikes a chord; it's "a fast, loose, and very funny parody that pulls off the not-so-simple feat of tweaking Trekkies and honoring them" (Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly ). The film's premise: A group of middle-aged actors from a long-canceled space show get "spacejacked by naive aliens in need of protection" who mistook the program for a historical document (Jay Carr, the Boston Globe ). The result is campy, goofy, and "funny without being flip" (Rita Kempley, the Washington Post ). (Click here to read an interview with Sigourney Weaver about her character in the movie.)

  • this garish and confused moment in history, with surgical precision" (David Ansen, Newsweek ). Performances by Kevin Kline, Joan Allen, and Sigourney Weaver are said to be so solid that they compensate for the unlikability of their characters.

  • ) But even with her stinko lines, Weaver has never been as flabbergastingly gorgeous and charismatic.

  • An overtly negative review in the New York Times Book Review , by Courtney Weaver, calls the tone "self-consciously humorous"; says the wit at times "disintegrates into cutesy one-liners"; and complains that the stories are plagued by a "certain generic weariness."


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