Sentence examples for director turned from inspiring English sources

The great director turned 71 last birthday.

The director turned 74 in September.

But, just as his friend had predicted, the station's director turned him down.

Mr. Marshall, a Broadway choreographer and director turned filmmaker, had powered that musical to a best picture Oscar in 2002.

"A whole year of shooting the movie, 30 minutes to cut it," Mr. Foxx said, when director turned up, trailing Ms. Thurman.

Tributes to Michael Winner, the film director turned restaurant critic, have poured in as news broke of his death, aged 77, from liver failure.

Hitchcock was not the only young British director turning the critics' heads in the 1920s.

Wynton Marsalis, its artistic director, turns 50 this year, and here comes the retrospective: large and small-ensemble music from the last three decades, with plenty of guests.

Democratic officials said Obama today would name Peter Orszag as his budget director, turning to Congress' chief adviser on spending and taxes as he fills out his economic team.

Nudging the image in and out of focus, the director turns the camera into an inebriated eye, shifting our attention from foreground to background with blurry regularity.

"You look no worse than you did yesterday," jokes Nick Luff, Centrica's finance director, turning to a grinning Sam Laidlaw.