Sentence examples for oater from inspiring English sources

True Grit didn't earn a single Golden Globe nod but the Academy's current 5,755 voting members are a different breed and there's a strong element among them that likes a good "oater", as staff at the US trade mag Variety like to call the genre for reasons best known to themselves.

This over-the-top oater delivers all the energy and spectacle audiences have come to expect from a Bruckheimer production, but sucks out the fun in the process, ensuring sizable returns but denying the novelty value required to support an equivalent franchise".

But their most original collaboration was a giddy, stylized oater, "Rio Bravo" (1959, Warner DVD).

What sets in motion all the monkey business about reanimation is the erotic obsession of an 83-year-old London widower named Irving Goodman with one Justine Trimble, the female lead in an undistinguished '50s oater called "Last Stage to El Paso".

It's a kind of screwball oater (at least half-aware that the audience was beginning to laugh at the conventions).

For the oater "Duel in the Sun" (Vanguard, 1947), David Selznick demanded that Tiomkin whistle first a love theme, then an orgasm theme.

E-mail address GO SIGN UP Share Tweet NOW PLAYING APPALOOSA This old-school neo-oater, an adaptation of Robert B. Parker's novel, directed by and starring Ed Harris as Virgil Cole, a tight-lipped hired gun, respects the codes and classics of the genre without adding much to them.

NOW PLAYING APPALOOSA This old-school neo-oater, an adaptation of Robert B. Parker's novel, directed by and starring Ed Harris as Virgil Cole, a tight-lipped hired gun, respects the codes and classics of the genre without adding much to them.

Paramount pretended to be annoyed by Brando's excesses, and cut his super-oater down to size, but in reality the studio was pleased.

If you've seen a few cinematic oaters or just about any them-vs.-us movie, you know what happens next: Strangers join forces as they take off after the villains, who just happen to be extraterrestrials, but might as well be Russians or Nazis, given their bland back story.

They're in a western, albeit one made in the amped-up modern action style, rather than the more stately idiom of old-time oaters.