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Sickly in sentence

95 examples of Sickly in a sentence

We had the early energy-efficient light bulbs that took five minutes to warm up and then you were left looking a kind of sickly color.
It leaves the listener feeling sickly.
A high forehead topped by disheveled black hair, a sickly pallor, and a look of deep intelligence and deeper exhaustion in his dark, sunken eyes.
Born Niels Stensen in 1638 Denmark, son of a goldsmith, he was a sickly kid whose school chums died of plague.
It looks sickly.
May the sloth be with you! (Applause) Nanahuatl, weakest of the Aztec gods, sickly and covered in pimples, had been chosen to form a new world.
This sickly sweet and laboriously paced 5-reeler is definitely not among Harold Lloyd's better films.
This nauseating, sickly and almost unbearably tedious misfire probably works as religious propaganda but has no entertainment value beyond a few wisecracks from George Burns.
This movie certainly a pain in your ass in theater and sickly boring, I haven't even felt the gory impact of its "daunting scenes" which I deem to be complete failure to attract its audience.
We see the conflicts of both of the characters- Sang-hyeon being a priest who undergoes a medical experiment that, unbeknownst to him, turns him into a sickly but true-blue vampire, and Tae-Joo with her mother and "idiot" brother, the latter is killed by Sang- as in a very strong melodrama.
Its very easy to watch and some of the kids performances are moving without being sickly or naff.
It takes place in an impalpable grayness, with nothing underfoot, with nothing around, without spectators, without clamor, without glory, without the great desire of victory, without the great fear of defeat, in a sickly atmosphere of tepid skepticism, without much belief in your own right, and still less in that of your adversary.
Handsome and callow Giorgio (Giraudeau) is frustrated by his inability to visit his charming but light-minded married mistress (Antonelli) and falls prey to the dangerous passion of enamored Fosca (D'Obici), the ugly and sickly daughter of his stern commander (Girotti).
Some in this genre can be sickly sweet, but this script is restrained.
Hyeon falls in lust with Tae-joo, the wife of sickly childhood friend Kang-woo(Ha-kyun Shin).
"Three Daring Daughters" is a sickly sweet, rose-colored look at divorce, remarriage, and single-parent living.
So if you want to watch a couple of great comics defile themselves in a sickly sweet kiddie flick, go ahead.
The direction was awful,with lots of jumping around and the green and yellow hues used throughout the movie makes the characters look sickly.
Plus, one sickly confederate soldier said that he was a "Johnny Reb, A Confederate a Rebel,..."--almost like he was the cartoon character Mojo Jojo from the Powerpuff Girls.
Some of the actors are quirky enough to liven things up - especially the love interest, brought to you by none other than Mr. Keanu Reeves, warming up for Ted; heroine Olivia D'Abo's hateful alkie dad and big-hair stepsister are more interesting than the sickly mom or her utterly inert bitch-nemeses/teammates, one of whom appears to be made of porcelain.
The story line might have clicked if the film had more funding and writers that would have cut the nonsense and sickly scenes that I highly caution parents on....
Thirdly, Samantha Morton is too strong an actress to be relegated to the role of Harriet; and why was she made to look so sickly?
The same can be applied to every other character, bar the little girl who acts so sickly innocent she's probably overcompensating for some serious crime she's part of.
Maureen Stapleton plays his sickly mother, Griffin Dunne is his DA brother, Peter Boyle is his boss, and Marilu Henner is his girlfriend.
Mary Brian is good as the girl, Jack Pickford is very good as the sickly roommate, Ralph Bushman is the rival.
The pacing is more on target,the job of acting is ever so fine (including a turn by a sickly looking Benecio Del Toro,as Che Guevara).
His dad (Philippe Duclos), is sickly, prematurely aged, and has never taken much interest in him.
So spoilt and mollycoddled that she is unable even to dress herself,she soon comes into conflict with her cousin's governess/nurse/minder Mrs Medlock,and her cousin himself,an apparently sickly boy,bedridden,self-pitying and petulant.How she changes the lives of the boy,her uncle and Mrs Medlock is told in "The Secret Garden".
As for Naish, he was so sickly that he acted in a wheelchair.
In fact, he was so weak and sickly that his voice needed to be dubbed!
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