slam-bang
Example Sentences
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Selfon slowly unspools his plot with striking prose and characters whose frailties and strengths take precedence over slam-bang action.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 3, 2020
Carpenter manically orchestrates Plissken’s mission as a darkly funny free-for-all, loaded with slam-bang set pieces and memorable supporting turns by a rogues’ gallery of character actors.
From New York Times • Sep. 10, 2020
Compared with those pictures, “First Love,” with its chaste romantic interludes, slam-bang set pieces and occasional dubious-taste sight gags, might have seemed scrappy and tossed off.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 26, 2019
In a slam-bang, briskly calibrated staging, Ormeny melds his gifted performers into an impressively organic ensemble that does full credit to Leora’s pithy, timely play.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 5, 2018
“That’s what you are! Crazy!” “—immense. I’m a real, slam-bang, honest-to-goodness, three-fisted humdinger. I’m a bona fide supraman.”
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
