How To Use killingly In A Sentence
- Money is one of my favourite books – killingly funny, savage, critical, and stylistically and structurally bent. I’ve torn my rug out getting my head round this
- In lowercase they become so killingly matter-of-fact, which is the whole joke. John Cheever's Cruel Paradoxes
- The story gives us one killingly funny observation after another: ‘Parker and his graduate student colleagues liked to theorize about the real world.’
- It seems a strange role for him, very British in its humour and, on the page at least, killingly unfunny.
- His "killingly fair-minded and viciously funny" review of the Pulitzer prize-winning author Michael Cunningham's latest book, By Nightfall, has won novelist and critic Adam Mars-Jones the inaugural Hatchet Job of the Year award. Review of The Hours author's latest book wins inaugural hatchet job award
- Adam Mars-Jones's review … was at once erudite, attentive, killingly fair-minded and viciously funny. Review of The Hours author's latest book wins inaugural hatchet job award
- The gimmick lets Nolan have three clocks ticking down instead of one which should be killingly suspenseful. 'Inception' A Masterpiece? Only In Someone's Dream
- That last sentence – with its statesmanlike tone of advocacy – is killingly brilliant, isn't it? So Lewis Hamilton wants a longer national anthem. Has he heard the second verse?
- The inventories of killingly precise details became sterile — "all knife-flash, no blood," as John Gardner once put it. The Quotidian of Love
- The show is killingly funny and the cast rise to the occasions that are presented to them with a panache rarely seen in ensemble playing.