Ebert

American  

[ey-bert, ey-buhrt] / ˈeɪ bərt, ˈeɪ bərt /

noun

1. Friedrich 1871–1925, first president of Germany 1919–25.

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Ebert British  

/ ˈeːbərt /

noun

1. Friedrich. (ˈfriːdrɪç). 1871–1925, German Social Democratic statesman; first president of the German Republic (1919–25)

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Example Sentences

What seized Roger Ebert’s attention was the emotional force of stark honesty, and this quality also explains his own power as a critic.

From The Wall Street Journal

Reading Ebert’s streamlined analysis, you understand a particular terror, that moment when art chills you to your bones.

From The Wall Street Journal

That “high, mindless scream in the getaway car,” Ebert writes, “provides, for me, a very adequate vision of hell.”

From The Wall Street Journal

Plain language, ordinary intimacies—Ebert’s directness makes it possible to feel the moment with nearly the same unbearable immediacy that Penn creates in the film.

From The Wall Street Journal

Pace told Ebert that she had devised a five-year plan for breaking into film, and had won the role just two weeks before her self-imposed deadline.

From Los Angeles Times