Sentence examples for belittle for from inspiring English sources

At the same time, he wrote and published his own poetry, hiring halls at the university for public readings of work that critics in Sarajevo tended to belittle for its dark and often obscurantist themes, many of them rooted in Serbian legend.

What we need, what the world needs is for the Church to stop spending so much of our time condemning and excluding and start spending more of our time loving, serving, and welcoming the people we'd rather ridicule and belittle for not being and believing exactly like us.

And although it might be objected that this essay reduces philosophy too far to just the tradition of analytical logic, even if true this acts not to belittle, for example, Bergson's immanentist approach but to ensure that the mechanical/analytical approach is at least internally coherent.

"Small" is too belittling for work that often pursues large ambitions by necessarily modest means.

Reporters are belittled for dishonesty and stupidity and their credentials are withheld.

Of course, Jeremy Kyle has long since primed audiences to accept desperate people being belittled for entertainment.

Yet, while the Europeans won acclaim as trailblazers, their Egyptian contemporaries were belittled for creating ethnic art.

Kids raised to believe that they could achieve anything now found themselves belittled for even daring to try.

Large Warhol-esque images of Disney are on display and two artists are belittled for the price of one.

The resident can't bear the thought of being belittled for three long months but doesn't know how to switch a rotation without attracting opprobrium.

Is this one reason these auteurs were belittled for so long by the canon-makers of blues and early jazz and are overlooked by those who chronicle the lives of far more obscure rock 'n' roll pioneers?