Sentence examples for brat generation from inspiring English sources

But it was also grimly appropriate that the boy-prince of the brat generation should die complaining of a tummy ache.

Cath Clarke The ur-text of the "movie brat" generation of the 70s, The Searchers – John Ford's story of two men trailing their female cousin, kidnapped by Apaches – has been cited endlessly in their movies.

The urtext of the "movie brat" generation of the 70s, The Searchers – John Ford's story of two men trailing their female cousin, kidnapped by Apaches – has been cited endlessly in their movies.

Peter Biskind's book "Easy Riders, Raging Bulls" split the '70s Movie Brat generation into warring camps: Martin Scorsese, Hal Ashby and Robert Altman, the protectors of Art, versus Lucas and Spielberg, the guys who turned movies into video games.

Both these filmmakers, two of the greatest of the movie-brat generation, are preoccupied, in their respective ways, sometimes nostalgically, with older movies, both European and Hollywood.

Other, more immediately pleasurable, documentaries included Noah Baumbach and Jake Paltrow's De Palma, in which Hollywood maestro Brian De Palma offers a no-holds-barred masterclass on suspense, the rise of his 60s "movie brats" generation, and what's wrong with Hollywood today.

Wait a minute, he didn't show much of that when he was near the bottom of his class at Annapolis, a spoiled brat third generation legacy, courtesy of his father and grandfather, both distinguished admirals.

"At the top, we're creating a generation of brats.

Of that generation of "brat-pack" actors, River Phoenix is dead; Rob Lowe's career was ruined by a sex scandal; Ditto Charlie Sheen.

He grew up a "military brat" with someone from every generation of his family in the armed forces.

Wallace (in an implicit rebuke to the "brat pack" writers of the generation above) repeatedly spoke out against irony: "Postmodern irony and cynicism has become an end in itself, a measure of hip sophistication and literary savvy.