shaggy-dog story
Example Sentences
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“Licorice Pizza”: Paul Thomas Anderson’s shaggy-dog story of self-discovery in ’70s San Fernando Valley feels to me like a loose, easy-breathing culmination for Anderson, a virtuoso filmmaker here at his most tender and organic.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 8, 2021
If “Motherless Brooklyn” could have stayed in that space, balancing its shaggy-dog story and social conscience a bit more economically, it might have been a home run.
From Washington Post • Oct. 30, 2019
I wouldn’t have dared say that out loud, but even then, I think, I somehow sensed that this was a climax that wouldn’t provide much resolution, a space-age shaggy-dog story.
From The New Yorker • Jul. 18, 2019
The moth joke resembles a shaggy-dog story structurally, but its wrenching punch line reveals Macdonald’s mastery of craft.
From New York Times • Aug. 30, 2018
Sure we do: they're going to give us a big long shaggy-dog story about the Life and Miracles of Saint Austin Maverick.
From Lone Star Planet by Piper, H. Beam
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
