(n.) A reception, or a musical or dramatic entertainment, held in the daytime. See SoirEe.
Example Sentences:
(1) But that one picture in 1954, George Cukor's musical remake of A Song Is Born , in which she played a rising young actress married to a sinking matinee idol (James Mason), proved to be the peak of her career.
(2) Imagine a huge, invisible mass of carrier waves, at the leading edge of which, and already past several thousand stars by now, is the smooth, matinee idol voice of BBC Television's first announcer, Leslie Mitchell, saying: "Hello Radiolympia.
(3) Hudler wasn't wrong: in the two nights leading up to the matinee squeaker, KC exploded for 22 runs, annihilating two pitchers you may be familiar with – Justin Verlander and Max Scherzer.
(4) He plays the best friend of a matinee idol in 1920s Hollywood.
(5) I too had time off at this point and, one matinee, I was alone in my dressing room, which was three floors up from the stage.
(6) Gene Hackman and George C Scott weren't matinee idols but they became movie stars.
(7) Five hours earlier he had fought for the first time on American soil at the 5,500-seat theatre adjacent to Madison Square Garden, stopping Philadelphia’s Steve Cunningham in the seventh round with a thudding right hook, a matinee shown on free-to-air NBC for a prime-time broadcast in the UK.
(8) "I remember him first as quite a smooth matinee actor.
(9) Stars with style Brad Pitt Born Shawnee, Oklahoma, US Age 41 Career highlights Johnny Suede, Fight Club, Ocean's 11 Career lowlights Seven Years in Tibet, Meet Joe Black Why he matters 'He combines the matinee idol looks of Gary Cooper with the sex symbol loveliness of Marilyn Monroe' Frank Gehry Born Toronto, Canada Age 76 Career highlights Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao; Walt Disney concert hall, Los Angeles Career lowlights Experience Music Project, Seattle Why he matters 'One of the most prominent contemporary American architects with his open, curvilinear, diverse and sometimes playful west coast style'.
(10) If the World Cup were a movie … heroes and villains Matinee idol If anyone worried that being the best footballer on the planet and dating a supermodel might be taking its toll on Cristiano Ronaldo, then his torso-rippling display in the Champions League final put such notions to bed.
(11) With his solemn gaze and luxuriant black moustache, he has the air of a matinee idol.
(12) Certainly, with his five o'clock shadow, there is something of the fading matinee idol about Van Hove.
(13) Happily Nicola Sturgeon, the deputy first minister, was on hand to pierce the monotony with an electrifying Friday matinee performance.
(14) It is impractical for the Globe and Wanamaker ever to offer the same script on alternate evenings in its open-air and closed venues – educative as the comparison would be – or, except at occasional matinees, to perform at exactly the time – 2 to 5pm in the afternoon – that would have been used in Jacobean times.
(15) Brave and witty, he appeared to the LA community to be a throwback to an earlier age, an English gentleman cricketer perhaps, or to the more susceptible ladies, a matinee idol.
(16) Mixing elegant retro chic with wry humour, Swoon made an uncomfortable case for its two protagonists as gay antiheroes, cold-hearted killers with the looks of matinee idols.
(17) A flick through the photographs in her current retrospective exhibition in LA reveals her transformed into 20 kinds of matinee starlet, Hitchcock lead, pneumatic Monroe, terrified centrefold, crime-scene corpse, old master muse, cut-up sex doll, Republican wife, clown; both as determinedly absent and iconically present in her work as Andy Warhol once was in his.
(18) Scofield, more craggily noble in appearance than handsome, always looked more mature than he was (he once said that he had bags under his eyes by the age of 17) and even at this tender age his features had a timeless rather than matinee idol appearance that allowed him to play parts intended for actors much older.
Movie
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Right from the beginning, I had been mad about movies.
(2) Movies such as Concussion , about the dissatisfactions of a bourgeois lesbian marriage, are already starting to ask these questions.
(3) It's the roughly $2bn in revenue grossed by his blockbuster movies, some of which he had to be talked into making.
(4) "The best artists, the best writers, the best directors are coming from movies and into television.
(5) I think a long time ago television passed up movies in terms of a reasonable and balanced portrayal of gay characters.
(6) (3) A 2006 Bobcat movie in which the lead ... pampers her pooch.
(7) Losing Murphy is a blow to the Oscars which has struggled to liven up its image amid a general decline in its TV ratings over the last couple of decades and a rush of awards shows that appeal to younger crowds, such as the MTV Movie Awards.
(8) It's not a great stretch to see parallels between the movie's set-up and the film industry in 2012: disposable teens are manipulated into behaving in certain ways, before being degraded and dispatched, all the while being remotely observed by middle-aged men, gambling on their fates.
(9) Fields said: "The assertions that Tom Cruise likened making a movie to being at war in Afghanistan is a gross distortion of the record... What Tom said, laughingly, was that sometimes, 'That's what it feels like.'"
(10) Later this month sees the release in the US of Star Trek Beyond – Yelchin’s most high-profile movie to be released posthumously.
(11) Mockingjay Part 1 may simply be suffering due to the huge success earlier this year of the latest Transformers movie, which made a colossal $301m in China .
(12) "In the UK our long-term competition will likely be Sky Go offering Sky Movies and Sky Atlantic on demand," he said.
(13) The "Be Kind Rewind Protocol", as he calls it, involves setting up small studios with modest sets and facilities – props, back-projection footage, video cameras – so that groups of people can make their own amateur movies together according to anti-auteurist rules drawn up by Gondry.
(14) A week after the New York Film Critics Circle gave the movie its top award, a liberal political commentator wrote: "I'm betting that Dick Cheney will love [the film, which is] a far, far cry from the rousing piece of pro-Obama propaganda that some conservatives feared it would be."
(15) A few days later he tweeted : "People don't usually wanna kill me for one of my movies until after they've paid 12 bucks for it.
(16) He admitted the increased profile afforded him by appearances in movies such as Captain America , its forthcoming sequel The Winter Soldier and 2012's $1.5bn superhero ensemble piece The Avengers had helped him get a foot on the ladder as a film-maker.
(17) With movies it was Adolph Zukor, who created the Hollywood studio system.
(18) However, some will be disappointed not to see the new movies from Terrence Malick, Emir Kusturica, Fatih Akin and Roy Andersson.
(19) Clinton met with Jane Dougherty, sister of Mary Sherlach, who was slain at the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, in 2012; Tom Sullivan and Matthew Jenks, the father and brother-in-law, respectively, of Alex Sullivan, who was killed in the 2012 movie theater shootings in Aurora, Colorado; and Coni Sanders, daughter of Dave Sanders, killed in the 1999 Columbine High School shootings in Colorado.
(20) Relatives of some victims have expressed anger with Jenkins for choosing not to talk to them: "But, you know, it's not a movie about them.