Sentence examples for turned uncool from inspiring English sources

"His company optioned my last book, 'The Day I Turned Uncool,' " said Mr. Zevin.

"The Day I Turned Uncool (Confessions of a Reluctant Grown-up)" (Villard), his last, was published in 2002 and was a finalist for the Thurber Prize for American Humor.

Dan Zevin, author of "Dan Gets a Minivan: Life at the Intersection of Dude and Dad" and "The Day I Turned Uncool," may be a humorist, but like the dads profiled in the Sunday Styles piece "Just Wait Until Your Mother Gets Home," he has also been a full-time father, squeezing in a sentence or two during nap time.

What you don't expect is how well his good looks can turn bland, uncool and pathetic as Franck, the serial killer in Cedric Anger's Next Time I'll Aim for the Heart.

When does the bravado become uncool?

Why he abandons her halfway through the show and gives the performance over to a bunch of dopey kids and, even worse, a desperately uncool counselor turned scoutmaster, is a puzzling choice.

Comedy that turns its enemies uncool creates a monopoly on humor that can be hard to break.

The cringing he elicits from those at the party, as well as from those in the theatre, is instantly transformed into sympathetic bliss as Molly joins him there, turning a hopelessly uncool moment cool and actually getting the party — and, of course, their relationship — started.

The uncool PC, it turned out, could do cool things.

But I feel there's got to be a parent nearby to step in when unstructured turns to uncool, un-fun and unsafe.

Leto's performance was so void of nuance and subtlety, it made any subtext supertext, and turned the character into an agonizingly uncool failure of a villain.