How To Use Dead-on In A Sentence
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Her loopy, funny voice is a dead-on mix of desire and ignorance.
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The satire isn't mean, though it is dead-on: one brilliant sketch takes the restaurant trend of local foodism to its logical extreme, when a pair of diners decide they must visit the home farm of their chicken dinner before ordering it and find that, in this case, the cult of the locavore is literally a cult.
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He's dead-on that it's "porky goodness", though the phrase, which he uses just a bit too often, is as grating to my ears as his nemesis 'fave, "yummo".
SaltShaker
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Williams has undeniable energy, and does dead-on imitations of the Cowardly Lion, Jiminy Cricket and other pop icons.
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Not since The Informers, based catatonically on the idiotic Bret Easton Ellis book, has the screen unleashed a Hollywood abortion as dismal and dead-on-arrival as Shrink.
Psychobabble
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That allusive, indirect style Westlake assigns to himself gives him plenty of room and time to wander away from his plot and work in wry but dead-on descriptions of people and how they live, the work they do, the things they surround themselves with, the places they go, their eccentricities and vanities and various insanities.
Drowned Hopes
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a dead-on feel for characterization
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Chekhov's wry humour and dead-on powers of observation are a perfect fit with the clown-inspired style of Toronto's Theatre Smith-Gilmour.
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Talladega Nights is a more refined version of the kind of anarchic, semi-improvised comedy that we saw in Anchorman, with the added bonus of being a dead-on pastiche of the Hollywood biopic genre.
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Nothing Geoff Dyer has written before is as wonderfully unbridled, as dead-on in evocation of place, longing, and the possibility of neurotic enlightenment, as irrepressibly entertaining as Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi.
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But even if the portrayal were as “dead-on” as The Times assures us it is, that portrayal is hardly neutral.
Mad About Mad Men
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What's not in dispute is the dead-on impression played by Urbanski, a Hollywood producer ( "The Contender") and occasional guest host on Rush Limbaugh's radio show.
The Larry Summers moment in "The Social Network," and how actor Douglas Urbanski nailed it
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For the most part, though, Fey hits her target dead-on.
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That basic sentiment, I have found, has been dead-on .
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However, while I woefully miscalculated the percentage points, I was dead-on in my place predictions.
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Some people felt that Tom Hanks was miscast, but I thought he was dead-on, because it's a father and son story.
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As a kid I was blown away by the scale, and as an adult I'm sent into convulsions of laughter at his always dead-on commentary on our world.
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Your opening and closing lines are 100% dead-on about it being the best possible movie that can be wrung from a video game yet being unable to overcome the fact that it was written for the Playstation.
REVIEW: Silent Hill « the balcony fool
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It was a dead-on show stopper that left me appreciating these California boys who may have lost some of their previous edge on the latest album but who can still play some amazing music!
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She avoids big scenes...preferring to rely on small gestures and dead-on dialogue
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Then again, the word "lying" is dead-on accurate as well.
Kerry endorses in PA despite spectre of 'swift boat' tactics
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Contrast is always strong and for a movie where everything takes place at night, blacks are dead-on solid with no bleed or shimmer.
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With its frontal perspective, the monumental wave confronts the viewer dead-on, boldly asserting its pure, natural energy.
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The bleeding sucker is a dead-on imitation of a real sucker, which happens to be a main forage item for the larger pike and muskies in the Allegheny.
Favorite Lures of the Pike Guides
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The only way to get closer to the source would be to animate it; it's a dead-on, uncompromising tribute.
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I never dilate, even with drugs and the nurse cheerfully informed me as I was being wheeled in for my 1st C-Section that I would have been one of those dead-on-the-trail mothers if I was giving birth in a wagon train.
A Good Birth | Her Bad Mother
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Their dialog is hilarious, and dead-on for two guys who have known each other forever, long enough to give each other a line of bull about each and every subject.
Dusk Before the Dawn » 2009 » July
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He also sprinkles a ton of real Hollywood names throughout his book - and seems to be dead-on accurate with most of the way he uses those names.
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Her rhythms were dead-on crisp and accurate, and she brought out all the color and exuberance the score demands.
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I think his point about the two movies within the movie jarring is dead-on. (
Intertribal: kick ass
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This dead-on take on childhood shenanigans ends on a high note, with the penitent David (he broke a vase with a baseball) enfolded in his mother's arms as she assures him, "Yes, David...I love you.
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I'm not coherent and relevant at the best of times, if I'm dead-on-my-feet tired it's even worse.
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I remember her hands started to shake around the paper she was holding, but she stared at me dead-on.
HEAVEN, TEXAS
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The mind no longer needs to invent its reality-the reality is in its face, rapidly approaching dead-on.
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Textural clarity requires rhythmic precision, knowing the important line at any point in the score, dead-on intonation, and the ability to sing lightly and incisively at the same time.
