How to Use fourth wall in a Sentence

fourth wall

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  • Far from breaking the fourth wall, the metatextual element of the film only heightens its emotional resonance.
    — James Factora, Them, 15 Aug. 2024
  • The character is the first to break the fourth wall in the MCU.
    — Chris Smith, BGR, 29 Sep. 2021
  • Not that this idea—breaking the fourth wall of the script—was new.
    — Wyatt Mason, Harper’s Magazine , 6 Jan. 2023
  • Later the video breaks the fourth wall and the room is revealed to be a set.
    — Izzy Colón, SPIN, 23 Mar. 2022
  • Trump stand-in, breaks the fourth wall near the end of the episode, calling on viewers to vote.
    — Rasha Ali, USA TODAY, 1 Oct. 2020
  • Cast and crew alike are figuring out the rules of the new genre and the boundaries of the fourth wall.
    — James Poniewozik, New York Times, 5 Mar. 2021
  • This manner of breaking down the fourth wall feels stale from the start.
    — New York Times, 14 Nov. 2019
  • Hildy breaks the fourth wall, and tells the audience about the players.
    — Kate Aurthur, Variety, 10 Sep. 2021
  • The characters here even break the fourth wall to chat with the viewer.
    — Lorraine Ali, latimes.com, 24 Mar. 2018
  • The nicest thing about doing a show like this is there is no fourth wall.
    — Daniel Scheffler, SPIN, 1 Apr. 2024
  • He was drawn to the irreverence—and to the nudge-nudge, wink-wink way the show seemed to break the fourth wall.
    — Abby Aguirre, Vogue, 15 Apr. 2019
  • There is a moment in the video loop when a foot breaks the fourth wall, smashing a sheet of glass.
    — Charles Desmarais, San Francisco Chronicle, 7 June 2018
  • What’s the point of breaking the fourth wall if there’s nothing on the other side?
    — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 13 Aug. 2021
  • Get ready for Lara Croft to go from tomb raider to fourth wall breaker.
    — Brendan Morrow, The Week, 27 Jan. 2023
  • Whether this was planned or not, this kind of breaking of the fourth wall is good for an easy laugh.
    — Jason Zinoman, New York Times, 20 Jan. 2023
  • My main beef with the humor came with the game's repeated need to break the fourth wall.
    — Sam MacHkovech, Ars Technica, 17 Nov. 2018
  • That extra beat might have broken the fourth wall too much.
    — Matthew Jacobs, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Dec. 2022
  • And journalists are rarely granted the grace of breaking the fourth wall.
    — Marquita K. Harris, Glamour, 19 May 2021
  • The fourth wall had been brought down, and there was no room for the voice behind the music to speak directly.
    — Tony M Fountain, Forbes, 13 Sep. 2021
  • There was a kick to watching actors burst through the fourth wall, going meta.
    — New York Times, 10 Dec. 2020
  • Winning Time batters the fourth wall to pieces in its opening scenes.
    — Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 12 Mar. 2022
  • The singer breaks down the fourth wall between him and the listener, and offers a brief glimpse of the smart-aleck Murphy of old.
    — Greg Kot, chicagotribune.com, 1 Sep. 2017
  • All night the show flirts with breaking the fourth wall, full of wink-and-nod references to theater.
    — Hugh Hunter, Philly.com, 8 Feb. 2018
  • Breaking the fourth wall [and] voice-over that shifts from first-person to omniscient was just part of the DNA of it.
    — Matt Brennan, chicagotribune.com, 1 July 2019
  • Charlotte breaks the fourth wall solely at the start of our journey and then never again.
    — Courtney Howard, Variety, 16 Nov. 2023
  • What was the philosophy behind when to break the fourth wall?
    — Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Feb. 2020
  • Chappelle breaks the fourth wall to call out his ridiculous costume.
    — Andy Hoglund, EW.com, 8 Nov. 2020
  • Leah exclaims, breaking the fourth wall to make eye contact with the camera.
    — Ineye Komonibo, refinery29.com, 15 Dec. 2020
  • Both are featured on the cover and are the only two creatures breaking the fourth wall.
    — Françoise Mouly, The New Yorker, 14 June 2021
  • In the closing act, which breaks the fourth wall, the cast frankly acknowledges that this portrait of Steiner might not be strictly accurate.
    — Rhoda Feng, ARTnews.com, 9 Aug. 2024

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