Sentence examples for classic complaint from inspiring English sources
Noise is the classic complaint from neighbors of clubs.
Here it is easy to recognize the classic complaint of the writer (usually, however, the young writer) who finds her self-consciousness inhibiting her instincts, especially when it comes to sex.
There are often good reasons for secrecy, but secrecy is a classic complaint about the Catholic Church, and especially about the way it has handled accusations of sexual misconduct.
On Monday, Trump, whose world view is permanently frozen in the eighties in a kind of "Bonfire of the Vanities" bunker mentality, was riffing off one of his classic complaints: the squeamish liberalism that takes issue with government-sanctioned murder.
Ms. Sauer, who mostly danced with her girlfriends, voiced a classic female complaint -- a lot of the guys were not dancing.
"The Big Lebowski" may have summed it up best with The Dude's classic, unprintable complaint against them.
Philip Roth, AM'55, revisits his classic Portnoy's Complaint 45 years after its publication and finds himself "shocked and pleased" at his recklessness.
Our culture is full of stories of teen angst that have become classics: "Portnoy's Complaint," "The Catcher in the Rye,""The Breakfast Club," "Heathers," "My So-Called Life".
The 13 songs on Weezer's fourth album, "Maladroit" (Geffen), clock in at under 34 minutes (truncated video clips fill out the CD), and they're full of nonsense-syllable hooks and classic power-pop complaints: "I can't say that you love me, so I cry and I'm hurting," Rivers Cuomo sings in his earnestly wounded voice.
Pierpont tags these books as reactions to The Metamorphosis, but also to Roth's sojourns behind the iron curtain, which themselves were merely bids to escape his reputation after the release of Portnoy's Complaint, that classic of filial suffering and fervent wanking: Roth's "Portnoy readers – even the ones who loved the book, or maybe especially those – viewed him as 'a walking prick'.
