How to Use gonzo in a Sentence

gonzo

adjective
  • From the start, a certain level of gonzo warfare was baked into the project.
    — Sean Howe, New York Times, 22 Dec. 2017
  • Outsider art turned pop, the hits were the kind of gonzo genius more respectable musicians wouldn’t dream of -- nor the band’s many imitators.
    — Richard S. He, Billboard, 30 May 2018
  • May responds to Tague's increasingly gonzo antics as though his life really depended on it.
    — Andrea Simakis, cleveland.com, 22 Feb. 2018
  • But best of all is Aubrey Plaza, who gives a dark, gonzo performance so stunning not even her most ardent Parks and Recreation fans will recognize her.
    — Joanna Robinson, VanityFair.com, 23 Mar. 2017
  • The mythology really took over as the series went along, and the third film’s exploration of the story’s universe, while turning back the clock a little bit, gives it a fresh feeling and a gloriously gonzo finale.
    — Dylan Scott, Vox, 19 Oct. 2018
  • Saturday’s masquerade may be a costume maker’s nirvana, but every day at the Con is chockablock with gonzo wardrobes, seductive graphics, stunning animations.
    — Tribune News Service, cleveland.com, 18 July 2019
  • Laurie’s drugging of the Last Supper with dog medicine made for excellently gonzo cinema, with the scene progressively becoming more surreal as the would-be apostles began to lose their faculties.
    — Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 21 May 2017
  • And, because Rosenberg is a disarming combination of gonzo professional and unchecked fangirl, a Sandra Bullock character waiting to happen, those chefs were charmed.
    — Christine Muhlke, Bon Appetit, 24 July 2017
  • But what’s most unexpectedly gratifying is how much energy veteran standup director Jeff Tomsic and his splashy cast pour into ensuring that this is legit entertainment, packed with gonzo wit and even some sentiment.
    — Tom Russo, BostonGlobe.com, 13 June 2018
  • Or perhaps the legacy of early African-American filmmakers like Oscar Micheaux, whose gonzo style of independent filmmaking favored filling every frame with as much entertainment as the story could bear?
    — Veronica Chambers, Marie Claire, 13 Feb. 2019
  • Those slices of 21st century American naming convention, though, don’t interest me as much as the truly gonzo, minor-character-in-a-Thomas-Pynchon-novel-esque monikers that the draft provides with regularity every summer.
    — Jon Tayler, SI.com, 11 June 2019

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