How to Use matinee idol in a Sentence

matinee idol

noun

• In the 1920s, actor George Valentin is a bona fide matinee idol with many adoring fans.
  — Travis Bean, Forbes, 23 Apr. 2022
• Handsome and suave, Bacharach was somewhat of a matinee idol.
  — Duane Byrge, Billboard, 9 Feb. 2023
• No one’s idea of a matinee idol, the burly Prima was almost 20 years Ms. Smith’s senior.
  — Adam Bernstein, Washington Post, 18 Dec. 2017
• Cooke, already a matinee idol on the church circuit, had designs on a pop career.
  — Washington Post, 15 Apr. 2022
• The man's a pent-up goalscoring machine/matinee idol waiting to be unleashed.
  — SI.com, 18 Oct. 2019
• Around the same time, the actor William Haines was forging his own career as a leading man: in Haines’ case, as a wisecracking matinee idol.
  — Chris Jones, chicagotribune.com, 15 Feb. 2022
• The compensation is dressing Brad Pitt like a ‘20s matinee idol.
  — Valli Herman, Los Angeles Times, 3 Jan. 2023
• So for the film’s premiere the actress dressed as matinee idol in a vibrant and glamorous dress of reflective paillettes by Armani Privé.
  — Vogue, 27 May 2019
• Wearing a short-sleeve blue shirt with a camp collar, olive khakis and white Jack Purcell Converse sneakers, Skarsgård looks like a ’50s matinee idol.
  — Alex Bhattacharji, WSJ, 6 Sep. 2018
• Nicholas Carrieré is a matinee idol vision of Will Shakespeare.
  — David Lyman, Cincinnati.com, 9 Sep. 2017
• Hammer, who has toned down his bulky, matinee idol build to reveal a tall and lanky frame, is almost too handsome to be a student of antiquity.
  — Tyler Coates, Esquire, 26 Jan. 2017
• Actor and singer Tab Hunter, whose blond all-American good looks made him a matinee idol and poster boy for Eisenhower-era optimism, has died.
  — Gina Piccalo, latimes.com, 9 July 2018
• Camp, king of the character actors, takes on the matinee idol James, while Marvel, always a tower of evident strength onstage, must find a way to dissolve as Mary.
  — Helen Shaw, Vulture, 25 Jan. 2022
• Though his character, James Tyrone, was a retired matinee idol, Mr. Dennehy refrained from the easy temptation of playing the ham.
  — Ben Brantley, New York Times, 16 Apr. 2020
• Slender and handsome, G-Eazy is hip-hop’s matinee idol, a white rapper with an outsize ego and a skill set that occasionally matches it.
  — Jon Caramanica, New York Times, 18 Dec. 2017
• Cruz plays an artsy director who won’t play by anyone else’s rules and Banderas is a matinee idol who finds himself under her command.
  — The Editors, Town & Country, 8 June 2022
• In this southwest Michigan kitchen, part of the main living area in Elizabeth and Chris Fisher's new home, polished stainless steel grabs attention like a matinee idol.
  — Sally Finder Weepie, Better Homes & Gardens, 5 May 2022
• Meet Hollywood’s new quarterback, more matinee usher than matinee idol, a stolid bit of sturdy known as Matthew Stafford.
  — Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times, 19 Mar. 2021
• Brad Pitt is Jack Conrad, a much-married matinee idol sliding into middle age and ever-deeper vats of alcohol.
  — Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 16 Dec. 2022
• But Poitier, who refused to play such caricatures, emerged as a matinee idol, an Oscar-winning actor and one of the most potent and graceful screen presences of his time, paving the way for countless who followed him.
  — Jake Coyle, ajc, 7 Jan. 2022
• With his matinee idol good looks and genial personality, Bobby Jon was an immediate standout on Survivor: Palau.
  — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 6 Aug. 2020
• The press conference represents the beginning of Mercury 7 as an unprecedented pop culture phenomenon, an irresistible hybrid of the American cowboy with the matinee idol.
  — Carol Motsinger, Cincinnati.com, 9 Apr. 2018
• More than one observer has pinpointed the peculiar dynamic of matinee idol Russell speaking his brother’s lines about loneliness, alienation, and erotic obsession.
  — Nate Jones, Vulture, 24 June 2021

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024