Sentence examples for a sort of insult from inspiring English sources
Yet "middlebrow" endures as a sort of insult — likely due to its median position, one that suggests both the dumbing-down of weighty intentions to reach a wide audience and the gussying-up of the crude or the plain for the sake of respectability.
Mr Putin seems to regard foreign debt as a sort of national insult, and is paying most of it off.
Expecting anything less strikes me as a sort of backhanded insult to the people who do that work.
As a result, the use of these terms as if they were gender neutral constitutes a sort of symbolic insult to women.
Of course, 16 years later, with sexual assault charges against him, that's a whole different sort of insult, but back then Bill Cosby's name was synonymous with America's favourite dad.
After Lily has a sort of relatively erudite insult-fest with Judy Greer, where they're calling each other "writer in residence" and "solipsist," Julia's character says, "My friends just call each other 'bitch,'hoho' and 'slut'".
Environmentalists tout a sort-of pagan eschatology.
They were guilty, she said, of "faintheartedness" — the sort of insult that only a lady could deploy.
In June and July 1998, Mr Clinton spent more than a week there without stopping off to brief the Japanese, the sort of insult not easily forgotten.
Because it injures our national pride, and Americans are too insecure to countence that sort of insult against ego?
