Example sentences for: woody

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

  • The only famous nebbishes are fictional characters: George Costanza, Isaac Bashevis Singer's Gimple the Fool, George McFly in Back to the Future , and virtually anyone played by Woody Allen or Rick Moranis.

  • It's the kind of high-low juxtaposition--of reference, of language, of moral importance--that Woody Allen executes so wonderfully, such as in this excerpt from "The Scrolls": "Whosoever shall not fall by the sword or by famine shall fall by pestilence, so why bother shaving?"

  • "Woody Allen has wound up making a fetish of himself, and it's beginning to be embarrassing," says New York 's David Denby.

  • According to Nash, true wit must meet the following standards: (1) The practitioner must have a quick mind, (2) The witticism must be stated within a very tight framework, and (3) It is characterized by four common rhetorical devices: parallelism, antithesis, definition, and quasi-philosophical propositions, an example being Woody Allen's line, Not only is God dead, but try getting a plumber on Sunday.

  • As Emmet Ray, the fictional 1940s jazz guitarist in Woody Allen's unexpectedly delectable Sweet and Lowdown , he lifts his voice about an octave and wears a small waxed mustache as if it were a fancy hood ornament.


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