Sentence examples for The invidious from inspiring English sources

The invidious comparison to Astaire dogs Kelly's renown.

Electors are relieved of the invidious dilemma of tactical voting.

The fallacy, to my eyes, is in the invidious distinction between traditional and nontraditional novels.

The Lib Dems he said, had moved from the easy promises of opposition to the invidious choices of government.

Both of these facts make Proposition 8 analogous to the invidious, irrational discrimination Kennedy held to be unconstitutional in Romer.

EVEL will undermine that essential principle and put the Speaker in the invidious position of having to adjudicate from which votes Scottish MPs should be excluded.

One described the government's agenda as driven by "an ideology of unabashed Puritanism, marketed through fear-mongering and the invidious exploitation of communal differences".

Regietheater first became popular as a way of evading unsavory political associations created by the work of Richard Wagner, and, once again, the invidious comparison comes into play.

And, to the Turks, it puts the union in the invidious position of demanding that Turkey keep its word when it has not kept its own.

The players he leaves behind will not care unduly about the invidious position in which they have been placed by assumptions of fecklessness.

I'm pleased that our longlist had so many funny books, and that we rejected the invidious false dichotomy that pretends to distinguish between "readable" and "literary" books.