Kilgore

[kil-gawr, -gohr]

noun

1. a city in NE Texas.

Example Sentences

Bill Kilgore from “Apocalypse Now,” the 1979 Francis Ford Coppola film that chronicles the breakdown of empathy and examines humanity’s capacity for evil against the backdrop of the Vietnam War.

From Salon

As Kilgore, Duvall captures this callousness in a famous scene.

From Salon

Bill Kilgore, the crazed cavalry commander in the 1979 Vietnam War film, “Apocalypse Now,” crouched in a black Stetson hat in front of a flaming Chicago skyline abuzz with black helicopters.

From Los Angeles Times

Instead of worrying obsessively about offending some swing voter a year from now, perhaps they should, as Ed Kilgore writes in New York magazine, “begin thinking of the federal government not as turf to be defended to the last ditch but as territory occupied by a proto-fascist regime and take some pride in interrupting its operations until normalcy returns.”

From Salon

As Intelligencer columnist Ed Kilgore points out, voters in both NYC and Tucson are worried about the issues in their own districts, not those in a city on the opposite side of the country.

From Salon