Example Sentences

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Mike Colter gives a performance of gentle muscularity as the kind-hearted, lady-killing superhero with unbreakable skin, an escaped convict who’s trying to lie low but is forced into using his powers to clean up Harlem.

From The Guardian • Mar. 16, 2017

“A hundred thousand welcomes,” says the lady-killing Lotto, with typical theatricality, as he opens the door for guests at his and Mathilde’s first home.

From New York Times • Sep. 6, 2015

It covers scientific, historical, moral, political and personal aspects of Oppenheimer’s life, conveying his arrogance, brilliance, self-destructiveness and lady-killing charisma.

From New York Times • May 27, 2013

However, here was my brother—the athletic, lady-killing, unshaved, quintessential dude—tapping his fingers to the music of an artist whom I understood almost entirely in terms of camp.

From Slate • Apr. 12, 2013

The grace of his movement was singular: it was the pantomimic expression of a lady-killing career.

From The Return of the Native by Hardy, Thomas