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Using Murnau

  • In the example corpus, murnau often appears in combinations such as: with murnau.

Context around Murnau

  • Average sentence length in these examples: 23.6 words
  • Position in the sentence: 4 start, 4 middle, 3 end
  • Sentence types: 11 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations

Often before:

imitate 1× despite 1× wilhelm 1× defended 1×

Sentence patterns with Murnau

These short patterns come directly from the example sentences and show how the word is often embedded:

and defended murnau 1× auteur despite murnau being known 1× cooperation with murnau was an 1× f w murnau had recently 1× f w murnau on another 1× friedrich wilhelm murnau s classic 1× important of murnau s films 1× impressed with murnau s unchained 1×

Sentence openings and endings

Common sentence openings:

associated with this 1× flaherty then agreed 1× german film director 1× hitchcock was very 1× murnau and cinematographer 1× shadow of the 1×

Common sentence endings:

almost perfect film 1× and defended murnau 1× and sensitive soul 1× his own productions 1× kamera unchained camera 1× last laugh 1924 1×

Words around Murnau

Just before it in the word index:

murnane 8 murnain 4 murnac 2 murmurs 33 murmurings 6 murmuring 22

Just after it in the word index:

muro 10 muroc 3 muroid 2 muromachi 9 murombo 2 murong 3

Similar in corpus frequency:

aab 14 aamer 14 aave 14 abadan 14 abdelmadjid 14 abdulkarim 14

Corpus analysis for Murnau

  • In this selection, "murnau" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 23.6 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around the word, imitate, despite and wilhelm stand out and add context to how "murnau" is used.
  • Recognizable usage signals include and defended murnau and auteur despite murnau being known. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
  • By corpus frequency, "murnau" sits close to words such as aab, aamer and aave, which helps place it inside the broader word index.

Example types with murnau

The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:

Short example sentences

Flaherty then agreed to collaborate with F. W. Murnau on another South Seas picture, Tabu (1931). (16 words)

The film's set designers Robert Herlth and Walter Rohrig denied this statement and defended Murnau. (16 words)

Associated with this particular style is also screenwriter Carl Mayer and films such as Murnau's Last Laugh (1924). (19 words)

Longer example sentences

German film director F. W. Murnau had recently made The Last Laugh and Sunrise and was the most critically acclaimed director in Hollywood, and Hawks's attempted to imitate Murnau's style with this film. (35 words)

Hitchcock was very impressed with Murnau's unchained camera techniques and stated that his cooperation with Murnau was an "enormously productive experience" and that Der letzte Mann was an "almost perfect film". (32 words)

The filmmaker we have to thank for that is FW Murnau, whose Nosferatu: Eine Symphonie Des Grauens premiered in the Marble Hall at Berlin’s Zoological Garden on March 4, 1922. (31 words)

Example sentences (11)

German film director F. W. Murnau had recently made The Last Laugh and Sunrise and was the most critically acclaimed director in Hollywood, and Hawks's attempted to imitate Murnau's style with this film.

Hitchcock was very impressed with Murnau's unchained camera techniques and stated that his cooperation with Murnau was an "enormously productive experience" and that Der letzte Mann was an "almost perfect film".

The plot seems to lampoon the unfairly lauded ideal of the driven auteur, despite Murnau being known in real life as a kind and sensitive soul.

The filmmaker we have to thank for that is FW Murnau, whose Nosferatu: Eine Symphonie Des Grauens premiered in the Marble Hall at Berlin’s Zoological Garden on March 4, 1922.

Associated with this particular style is also screenwriter Carl Mayer and films such as Murnau's Last Laugh (1924).

Flaherty then agreed to collaborate with F. W. Murnau on another South Seas picture, Tabu (1931).

He was very impressed with Murnau's work and later used many techniques for the set design in his own productions.

Murnau and cinematographer Karl Freund used elaborate camera movements for the film, a technique later called " entfesslte Kamera " (unchained camera).

Shadow of the Vampire (2000) is a highly fictionalized depiction of the filming of Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau 's classic silent vampire movie Nosferatu (1922).

The film's set designers Robert Herlth and Walter Rohrig denied this statement and defended Murnau.

Years later C. A. Lejeune called it "probably the least sensational and certainly the most important of Murnau's films.

Common combinations with murnau

These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:

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