Guitry
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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As the playwright Sacha Guitry so shrewdly observed, “you can pretend to be serious, but you can’t pretend to be witty.”
From Washington Post ● Dec. 12, 2018
The first is a series of eight short dances Ravel wrote in 1911 in an updated Schubertian style, nostalgic yet also contemporary, like, say, an elegant Sacha Guitry French period film of the 1930s.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 26, 2018
There’s a special category of superb filmmakers who started as writers, such as the novelists Éric Rohmer, Ousmane Sembène, and Marguerite Duras, as well as the playwrights Sacha Guitry and Kenneth Lonergan.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 1, 2016
As dawn breaks, the film evokes its spirit guides — philosopher-historians like Sartre, Braudel and Péguy; writers like Bataille, Rimbaud and Faulkner; filmmakers like Hitchcock, Guitry and Eisenstein.
From New York Times ● Dec. 4, 2011
At this time, Antoine, Gémier, and Guitry were making theatrical declamation more natural, and this made the exaggerated declamation of the French opera appear more ridiculous and more archaic still.
From Musicians of To-Day by Blaiklock, Mary
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