Usage examples (34)

• "Sidney Poitier is his name, and elevating the ethical consciousness of American cinema is his game."
• The Measure of a Man: A Spiritual Autobiography, by Sidney Poitier is a wonderful look at his life over the years.
• Everett's deformations of form add an element of bracing insolence to satire that in I Am Not Sidney Poitier is a little too earnest.
• But to paraphrase Poitier, he'd want to play a man, not a black man, something Poitier was rarely permitted to do.