Sorrentino

[sawr-uhn-tee-noh, sor‑]

noun

1. Gilbert, 1929–2006, U.S. poet and novelist.

Example Sentences

The number of people who watched Sorrentino’s series when it aired on HBO or saw “Conclave” when it was in theaters is piddly compared to the number of Catholics worldwide, a 1.4 billion-strong flock.

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But let’s not forget that years before Ralph Fiennes slipped into a cassock, filmmaker Paolo Sorrentino sneaked us into his version of the Vatican’s inner political sanctum via “The Young Pope” in 2017 and its 2020 sequel “The New Pope.”

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But then, Sorrentino conceived Pius as a conservative hardliner who would have favored brute force anyway.

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Sorrentino didn’t intend for his drama to meet that moment, but circumstances turned out that way.

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Notwithstanding these fears, the new pope isn’t quite the same as Sorrentino’s titular “New Pope” either.

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