Sentence examples for a summer smash from inspiring English sources

Thus, perhaps, the unexpected — even unplanned — strangeness of Raimi's film, which fulfills its brief as a summer smash but which also proceeds with a distracted and sometimes lonely air.

Other critics commended Carey on her novel singing style which, according to Kelefa Sanneh of The New York Times, gave the song its propulsion, writing "This style is part of the reason why she has been able to turn a ballad into a summer smash.

A New York exhibition exploring Chinese influence on western fashion has become a summer smash-hit, attracting a record 670,000 visitors in a sign of China's growing clout in America.

Brighton producer Lorca pairs the genre's ultra-tinny snares with roiling, milky synths; Last Japan reaches 2-step by slowing grime towards a dubby crawl, while Preditah is getting progressively less grimy, with his bubble-bath garage remix of Aaliyah a late summer smash.

Earlier this year, a mellow reggae song from 2012 by the Jamaican singer OMI became an unlikely summer smash hit after being remixed by the German house d.j.j

Of all the places in a young artist's career to get frozen, at the peak of a world-dominating summer smash single could be the worst.

The reboot has amassed more than $393m worldwide and is a bona fide summer smash thanks to the dedicated core of superhero fans.

Of the new material only one song — "6 Foot 7 Foot," with Cory Gunz — is a legitimate hit, but even that's just a recasting of his 2008 smash "A Milli".

The Spain striker, who joined Atletico from Barcelona in the summer, smashed through a crowded penalty area after Sevilla keeper Beto failed to punch clear home skipper Gabi's right-wing cross.

The chorus interpolates a melody from Alabama's 1982 smash "Mountain Music," a stunt that Mr. Paisley suggested is "the closest that country has come to sampling".

One of the pop futurists of the contemporary blockbuster, he helped turn Tom Cruise into a megastar with the 1986 smash "Top Gun" and was instrumental in transforming Denzel Washington, over the course of five movies they made together — beginning with the locked-jaw masculinities of "Crimson Tide" (1995) and ending with the working-class heroics of "Unstoppable" (2010) — into a global brand.