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30 examples of Everyman in a sentence

That's why my organization, Citizen University, has undertaken a project now to create an everyman's curriculum in civic power.
The Mo model might be better than the everyman entrepreneur model, which prevents an effective means of diffusion and knowledge-sharing.
Henriksen evokes an unusual, not-quite-earthbound Everyman (even sporting an ample gut), but Roberts is about as threatening and scary as an extra in "Death Wish 3"; we're never sucked in to the point where we actually CARE about what's happening, and the conclusion slides into improbable territory (I kept thinking it was going to be "Fight Club" all over again, but I was mistaken).
It's a shamble all the more because it's writer/director/technical everyman Nick Gaglia went through the same rehab cult that he depicts in the film.
Certainly its well acted with passion but there is no emotional center, there is just an everyman of sorts which the filmmakers feel is enough.
It follows characters of all different backgrounds and all different races, but always comes back to your everyman Tobias Beecher, in jail for vehicular manslaughter.
William Macy portrays everyman who is taken out of his personal circumstances and challenged with decisions testing his values affecting the community.
Filmmakers made a rather boring everyman's story look interesting and complex by focusing on his wife back at home.
It is superbly cast with some of the best of current US actors, Parker Posey, who exudes energy even when she stands still, Eugene Levy as tolerant everyman who is nobody's doormat, even when he appears to be (or maybe, 'indomitable doormat').
Glover's blackmailer plays the scene with convincing intelligence, but Scheider portrays the victim here as a cocky "good guy," in charge of the situation as if he were more a Rambo with an M-16 than the everyman barely staying afloat as his world crumbles around him.
Johnny Knoxville can't really be criticised for his performance as Phil Kaufman - he's pretty good at looking laid-back and down to earth and you can sort of root for his long-suffering everyman.
The film suffers not merely from the miscasting of everyman Tom Hanks as an uncaring Yuppie, Kewpie-doll Melanie Griffith as a manipulative southern belle and Bruce Willis (?!) as the darling of New York's literati.
He is the American everyman, especially relevant at the time of this film's release, when the nation was in the grips of a housing shortage after the end of the war.
Cage excels at what he does best- it's not to be an action hero but to be an everyman caught in the snares of life.
Perfect flawless black comedy with humor as dark as the night that caught Paul Hacket (Griffin Dunne), a nice guy, an everyman, an ordinary computer operator in its darkness and surrounded him by all kinds of weird strangers who very well could be the deadly creatures of night that inhabited SOHO of early 1980s every night after hours... or perhaps they are still there?
Arthur Hill is the perfect chap for this rigorous acting workout: he's an Everyman, a survivor, and I sure wanted him to belt that broad when he had the chance.
It is a fantastically funny movie about an innocent "girl shy" everyman who ends up at the end with the big break and, of course, the beautiful girl.
And Polanski's product leads to a powerful representation of man's instinct and obsession for beauty, sensuousness, and the ideal everyman's woman.
Inotherwords, everyman.
The monster suit is awesome and frightening, and a different look that almost smacks of a Toy Franchise, Hey if Full Moon and Todd McFarlane can make action figures for any character..Why not The Beast from Bray Road Wolfette,Shapeshifter with medallion accessory,or the Rhett Giles everyman hero with removable appendages.
Nebbish everyman Henry Winkler (shedding his Fonzie image) abandons Wall Street brokerage for the more quiet and subdued night shift at the city morgue, much to the aggravation of his weight worrying girlfriend.
But to be honest, it's pretty much an everyman story for anyone who has had a crush on a member of the opposite sex.
Joseph Cotton appears annoyingly useless, instead of his usual sympathetic everyman of films like The Third Man.
His delivery combined with facial expressions made him seem like a true everyman caught up in a bad situation.
I live in this area of England and the stark grey images combined with the lush green fields work fantastically well on film , the characters are your everyman types that everyone knows or knows of in their town .It shows the dark under belly of small towns in central England , its stark imagery doesn't glorify violence in the way usually associated with this type of film .
His acting range was the broadest and his characters were never quite as vaudevillian--Harold Lloyd's everyman persona still rings true 80 years later.
Splash is a really well-made Hollywood fantasy comedy, with early Tom Hanks already developing into the charismatic everyman and Darryl Hannah and John Candy at their best.
Also, while Brad Pitt is gorgeous to look at, and a very likable movie star, his performance somehow left me a little cold - it doesn't hit any deep emotional chords, and while you could praise him for being subtle, he just doesn't have the everyman quality, that sense of human anguish anyone can relate to, that someone like Will Smith does.
At once a prince and an everyman, he combined his father’s East Coast blue-blood pedigree with a simple Texan persona, making him a perfect cross between Stewart and Wayne.
Steyer’s deeds matter, not because he is an Everyman who switches from an SUV to a hybrid, but because he is a key player in the global economy who wants to make a difference.