Sentence examples for a thwarting from inspiring English sources

A clever base-running gambit here, a thwarting of a double play there, and torrents of runs would follow.

had just published a book called 'The Function of the Orgasm,' in which he had expounded the theory that the sexual frustration of the proletariat caused a thwarting of its political consciousness; only through a full, uninhibited release of the sexual urge could the working class realize its revolutionary potentialities and historic mission; the whole thing was less cockeyed than it sounds".

It was a thwarting of God's plan.

A more accurate assessment is that the evil that happens in this world is not God's will and is, in fact, a thwarting of his plan.

Or use a different word, like "a thwarted legislative proposal".

Some critics saw the film as a thwarted mess.

Initially, he displays the incandescent fury of a thwarted killer.

But he picked Sharky, a thwarted, internalized character.

Julie Parker, a spokeswoman for the county police, described the events as a "thwarted terror threat".

A sullen Greece, led by a thwarted Syriza, would risk reinforcing that narrative, not change it.

Flaubert and Nightingale had arrived with a thwarted sense of destiny.