brooder

Example Sentences

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Only Elordi, variously treated like beefcake and brooder, seems lost trying to square Julius’ early vulnerability with the final act’s hopeful romance.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 25, 2025

Stulbarg is an excellent brooder, and Hope Davis vamps it up for whatever Evil Gods to whom she sacrifices incense to get into character as Gina Baxter, the scheming Lady MacBeth to Stuhlbarg's mobster.

From Salon • Dec. 6, 2020

Today’s conventional wisdom regards Bergman as a dour Scandinavian brooder who specializes in the romantic/erotic lives of neurotic characters and the absence of God.

From New York Times • Nov. 20, 2018

Denis Villeneuve, “Arrival”—The Québécois director of “Prisoners” and “Sicario,” Anthony Lane writes, is “both a brooder and a tease.”

From The New Yorker • Feb. 23, 2017

Chickens were in the brooder house, and the garden was in and we eded.

From "A Long Way from Chicago" by Richard Peck