Sentence examples for a monstrous regiment from inspiring English sources

Knox does not in fact call women "a monstrous regiment".

Then a monstrous regiment of cheeses and a chocolate dessert to end all chocolate desserts.

So let's form a monstrous regiment of parents who refuse, between working, shopping, cleaning, washing and playing, to also serve as our children's surrogate teachers.

The movie certainly shudders with a terror of female power, and the last thing we see is a monstrous regiment of women, their faces blanked out, streaming up a hillside, like the nightmare of a Puritan preacher.

Updated at 1.01am BST 12.35am BST After Nancy Pelosi there follows a monstrous regiment of women, in this case the women of the House of Representatives, all speaking on a theme of women's success.

At long last, I've noticed some mean girls – not quite a monstrous regiment, but a sinister strike force, at least – popping up in YA and older middle grade (MG) fiction.

The soldier in charge (Safar Samandar) is exasperated by this monstrous regiment; a country boy and, like his fellows, a conscript, he would rather be back home taking the cows out to pasture.

The Scottish protestant firebrand John Knox, author of a polemic against "the monstrous regiment of women", was among the most vocal critics.

In "Monstrous Regiment," Vimes even does a variation on John F. Kennedy's "Ich bin ein Berliner" moment, assuring Borogravia's best that he is a "Brogocia," a cherry pancake, instead of a fellow Borogravian.

This is fair enough, and yet his women, even when sympathetically portrayed, seem a monstrous, alien regiment, their sexuality voracious and threatening.

In ninety minutes of sustained mayhem, however, Reza wipes the masks of sang-froid off her whole monstrous regiment and demonstrates just how thin a line lies between civility and barbarity.