Sentence examples for shorty by from inspiring English sources

Any honest mystery writer would agree with that fine ending, from the last sentence in "Get Shorty," by Elmore Leonard.

Trombone Shorty by Troy "Trombone Shorty" Andrews, ill.

Or think about characters in novels like Get Shorty, by Elmore Leonard, or those in Dennis Lehane's Mystic River.

Julie Morstad; Talkin' Guitar: A Story of Young Doc Watson by Robbin Gourley; Trombone Shorty by Troy Andrews, ill.

Black sequin dress by Joseph Li; hot pink shorty by Deborah Marquit @ Le Corset; black bead cross bracelet by Tom Massini @ Apropo; black hearts chains, metal ball earrings, and cross chain by Agatha.

(Images: "Dune," by Shorty; "Jean Paul Gaultier Perfume Bottles," by Gina Collecchia).

"Get Shorty," directed by Barry Sonnenfeld and written by Scott Frank, was one of the best movies of the mid-nineties heartlessly funny, profane, and so decisive in its cynical wit that it achieved somid-nineties heartlesslyh style ofunnyreat thirties comedy.

The only test for admission into my personal comedy pantheon is to make me LMAO the nth time around, like The Producers, The Importance of Being Earnest, Some Like it Hot and Where's Shorty do by revealing fresh, previously overlooked layers of hilarity with each new viewing.

Four Caldecott Honor Books were named: Trombone Shorty with pictures by Bryan Collier and words by Troy Andrews (published by Abrams Books), Waiting which was illustrated and written by Kevin Henkes (published by Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers).

Surrounded by bodies, slowly dying of thirst, Shorty passes time by recalling his violent childhood in the slums, and shares a psychic (read: voodoo) connection with Toussaint L'Ouverture, the rebel slave leader and hero of the 18th-century Haitian revolution.

Most powerful is Get Shorty, accurately described by Martin Amis as "a masterpiece" and surely one of the greatest novels of the century, the American If on a Winter's Night a Traveller.