Sentence examples for a personal quarrel from inspiring English sources

The atmosphere was cozy, but as the arak and vodka flowed, nerves grew raw, and what began as an abstract political discussion flared suddenly into a personal quarrel.

He says it is impossible for him to understand how a difference of opinion can ever lead to a personal quarrel.

Maurepas remained in office until 1749, when, as a result of a personal quarrel with Louis XV's mistress, Madame de Pompadour, he was disgraced and banished to his estates.

A personal quarrel between Titania and Oberon has leaked out to become an atmospheric disturbance, legible in the winds and the cold and the rheumatic dampness of the air.

More often because of a personal quarrel".

Mention a man's mother in Finland, for instance, and he'll more likely assume that you have a personal quarrel with her than that you're trying to offend him.

To the degree that one can extrapolate from the personal quarrel between Richman and Bourdain a larger philosophical debate about the proper future of American tastes, Richman readily concedes defeat.

With her sister Delia she wrote a play, "Love, Loss, and What I Wore," about women and their wardrobes (once calling it " 'The Vagina Monologues' without the vaginas") and by herself she wrote "Imaginary Friends," a play, produced in 2002, about the literary and personal quarrel between Lillian Hellman and Mary McCarthy.

Mr. Kerry told his audience that in fact he had no personal quarrel with Mr. Bush, whom he described as "a nice man".

Apart from the personal quarrel, Pope had reasons of literary appropriateness for letting Cibber take the place of his first choice of King, Lewis Theobald.

St James' suffered from a major scandal in the late 1820s ("a period of personal quarrels and violent newspaper controversies") when Commissioner Bigge's secretary and brother-in-law, Thomas Hobbes Scott, who had been made Archdeacon of New South Wales in 1825, came into conflict with a parishioner, Edward Smith Hall.