Get to know Almodóvar better with 10+ real example sentences, the meaning.
Almodóvar in a sentence
Almodóvar meaning
A surname from Spanish [in turn from Portuguese].
Using Almodóvar
- The main meaning on this page is: A surname from Spanish [in turn from Portuguese].
- In the example corpus, almodóvar often appears in combinations such as: pedro almodóvar, in almodóvar, almodóvar and.
Context around Almodóvar
- Average sentence length in these examples: 25.1 words
- Position in the sentence: 7 start, 7 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 17 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Almodóvar
- In this selection, "almodóvar" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 25.1 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, pedro, 1980s, marking, tapped, wrote and phoned stand out and add context to how "almodóvar" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include almodóvar s 2019 and dancer melina almodóvar. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "almodóvar" sits close to words such as aav, abdicating and abductor, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with almodóvar
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Almodóvar’s 2019 film Pain and Glory follows. (8 words)
Spike Lee, Pedro Almodóvar Tapped for Toronto Film Festival Awardshollywoodreporter. (10 words)
Pedro Almodóvar’s English-language debut, with Julianne Moore and Tilda Swinton starring? (13 words)
Right up to Almodóvar's perfectly-chosen final shot, Banderas conveys the need to make peace with the events that have shaped you, for a character where making art is the only way he knows to do that. (38 words)
Marking Almodóvar’s first English-language feature, “The Room Next Door” stars the two Oscar winners as Ingrid (Moore) and Martha (Swinton), who were close friends in their youth when they worked at the same magazine. (36 words)
Performing at his mature finest, Banderas moves up and down the emotional register from mournful to puckish to regretful to freshly hopeful with a restraint that dials down Almodóvar's breathy melodrama almost to straight realism. (36 words)
Pedro Almodóvar’s English-language debut, with Julianne Moore and Tilda Swinton starring? (13 words)
Example sentences (18)
Banderas' having become a regular feature of Almodóvar's movies all throughout the 1980s, Almodóvar is credited for helping launch Banderas's international career.
Spike Lee, Pedro Almodóvar Tapped for Toronto Film Festival Awardshollywoodreporter.
This might be the first western in which single men live with Georgia O’Keefe art on the walls, kitsch religious ornaments on the dresser and walls painted in Almodóvar’s preferred colour palette.
Almodóvar’s 2019 film Pain and Glory follows.
Cinema is where Almodóvar will be remembered, not literature; “The Last Dream” works mainly as a key to understanding his films.
In his more than four decades of career, Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar has become one of the most prominent and unique queer voices in world cinema.
Marking Almodóvar’s first English-language feature, “The Room Next Door” stars the two Oscar winners as Ingrid (Moore) and Martha (Swinton), who were close friends in their youth when they worked at the same magazine.
Of his more than 20 feature films, Almodóvar wrote or co-wrote nearly all of them.
Pedro Almodóvar’s English-language debut, with Julianne Moore and Tilda Swinton starring?
Fan though I am of Phoenix, I think Antonio Banderas should have won for his performance in Pedro Almodóvar’s Pain and Glory.
The dynamic duo of Almodóvar and Banderas is always a cinematic treat, and they’re in especially excellent form in this film.
The film, which is considered the most personal for the 70-year-old Almodóvar, also won best original screenplay, best original music, best editing and a best supporting actress prize for Julieta Serrano.
But when he returned to Madrid, Almodóvar phoned me to confess that as he had gotten older in recent years — his 70th birthday was on Sept. 25 — he had begun to purposefully isolate himself.
In the 1990s he moved to Spain, where he became friendly with the director Pedro Almodóvar and took pictures of him and Penélope Cruz, his frequent star.
Performing at his mature finest, Banderas moves up and down the emotional register from mournful to puckish to regretful to freshly hopeful with a restraint that dials down Almodóvar's breathy melodrama almost to straight realism.
Right up to Almodóvar's perfectly-chosen final shot, Banderas conveys the need to make peace with the events that have shaped you, for a character where making art is the only way he knows to do that.
The go-to recipe always used to be the one in Almodóvar’s movie Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown – tomatoes, bread, garlic, barbiturates etc – minus the drugs.
Headlining this year's Miami Beach Salsa Fest is "La Muñeca de Salsa" herself, Puerto Rico-bred singer/dancer Melina Almodóvar.
Common combinations with almodóvar
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- pedro almodóvar 5×
- in almodóvar 2×
- almodóvar and 2×