Sentence examples for as denigration from inspiring English sources

Perhaps this split personality has its origins in the restaurant's name: "bobo," an abbreviated portmanteau of "bourgeois" and "bohemian," is one of those terms which are used more often as denigration than as compliment.

To call "The Lord of the Rings" superior children's literature is not meant as denigration, because it seems ideally suited to superior children — not clever ones, that is, but those who stand on the crumbling brink of puberty and gaze both forward and back.

Power here is defined as denigration, defamation, threatening, and blaming the recipient of the abuse for the circumstances.

"You get criticized for trying something; you get criticized for not trying something," said Mr. Sherak, whose show came in for some public denigration as well as a share of private grousing by those in the game.

Therefore, although the majority of those polled said they admired many things about the West, and in particular about America (its technology, work ethic, freedoms, democracy), Muslims' major grievance against the West is what they identify as the denigration of Islam and Muslims, as well as the extent to which Arabs and Muslims are seen by the West as inferior and not of equal value.

As disgraceful as the denigration of a man for ideological purposes is, it was the systematic distortion of truth on the most widely used information website that especially angered and frightened readers.

(None of this should be construed as a denigration of pop music--as readers of my blog know, I enjoy and listen to a great deal of music in the pop idiom, I just don't expect it to give me what I get from classical music and jazz, nor do I expect classical music and jazz to give me what I get from pop music).

We did a carjacking on that word a few decades ago, and now you're mad because we've made more sexy use of it—some denigration as well.

Focusing assistance on sex trafficking, which Mr. Kristof praises, somehow for the Bush administration means demonizing and marginalizing sex workers, which is as deadly with respect to H.I.V.-AIDS as the denigration of condoms.

This was a time when taking a snap showing hardships, such as people queueing for bread, was seen as a "denigration of the socialist reality" and could land you six years in prison.

But while some international observers — not to mention a few corners of the British news media — may seize upon this as a referendum on the quality of the English game, Bale's departure will ultimately serve more as an affirmation of the Premier League's stature than as a denigration of its product.