Sentence examples for damned up from inspiring English sources
The metaphor implies that human beings develop virtues in the absence of abnormal interference such as water being damned up or struck so that it splashes upward.
During the course of a nation there come times when leaders fail and fail again, when progress is stalled, damned up by those working to keep things on course for business as usual.
Because while the accusation of the "nanny" or "client " state is damning up to a point, it's not as obviously villainous as the state that turns a blind eye to those in real need who really do need more than "tough love".
The Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations issued a report on this case which found damning up and down the Chase organization, all the way to the top.
A friend and I were supposed to see Sandra Bernhard's show "I'm Still Here... Damn It!" up the street at the Booth Theater at 222 West 45th.
"Will you shut that damn child up!" I feel like screaming.
"Costs be damned; lock 'em up and be done with it" became the unofficial motto of the Department of Corrections.
His unspoken desire to return to the community is also drawn from fear; if he isn't praying the right way, perhaps he will end up damned.
His name is excellent, too: the first part conjures up the damned, the second rhymes with "insane".
And I'll be damned — they hooked me up, and Ted answered the phone!
That complicates the policy choices for Spain and Brussels, which Olivier Blanchard, chief economist for the I.M.F., summed up as "damned if you do and damned if you don't".
