Sentence examples for and without insult from inspiring English sources

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Isolation and appetite, in any teen-ager, naturally find release in self-gratification; in that sense, Thomas's poetry can fairly, and without insult, be called masturbatory.

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The birth record documented a normal labor and delivery without insult, and there was no known family history of abnormal neurologic disease.

I believe in discipline without punishments and rewards, and setting boundaries without insults, yelling, bribing and manipulation.

Like the poet who makes it big in Saul Bellow's Humboldt's Gift, he "appeared in Time without insult and in Newsweek with praise".

For some reason I keep thinking of a line on the opening page of Bellow's "Humboldt's Gift," describing the publication in the nineteen-thirties of the first book by the brilliant young poet Von Humboldt Fleisher (bearing a close resemblance to Delmore Schwartz): "His picture appeared in Time without insult and in Newsweek with praise".

But Doughty directs careful attention to such objects as shopping bags, and when Laura reflects on how colleagues were able to comfort her after David left, and how helpless they are now, she finds her metaphor in the kitchen: "The routine tragedy of my marriage could be tumble-dried by gossip, emerging clean and shrunken, but the loss of Betty cannot be reduced without insult".

But it had to be done without insult.

You could say, without insult, that Dieterle's food is all over the map.

"Rather, the prevailing mood was one in which faculty eloquently modeled how to disagree, without insult or ad hominem charges".

(She couldn't even get a tooth pulled without insult; the palace surgeon tore out a piece of her jaw in the process).

His character's identity offers no surprise — nor does much else in the film — but that detracts little from this family-friendly escapist fare that should enthrall, without insult, fantasy-minded viewers of any age.

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