Sentence examples for deadly insult from inspiring English sources

The backing track was an insulting afterthought of £10 market-stall-keyboard reggae presets, and to call it off-key would be a deadly insult to keys.

Although Mr. Allawi worked with the United States to overthrow Saddam Hussein and his Baath Party, members of Mr. Maliki's party have lately denigrated him by calling him a Baathist — a deadly insult given the abuse that Shiites like Mr. Maliki and Mr. Allawi sustained at the hands of the Sunni-dominated Baathist inner circle.

"Oh, she said, 'Richard Hoggart has climbed to wealth and success on my shoulders.'" Then there was the Cambridge lecture after which a Leavis acolyte produced the deadly insult - made even more deadly by its framing as a rhetorical question - "Are you the would-be intellectual's JB Priestley?" You imagine that Hoggart gave as good as he got in this exchange.

The sword having been refused to him, Davidson theorizes that this may well have been intended as a deadly insult, and that this lends a tragic air to the scene in the hall.

We don't know whether they hear words like freedom, liberty and pluralism as deadly insults to the way of life they hold dear.

Research has also demonstrated that pharmacological or genetic manipulation of the underlying molecular pathways can protect neurons from deadly insults [ 2- 4].

It also speaks of his feeling of being an intruder in an unreal world: "I somehow regarded the nightly experience of dining in hall as a kind of theatre, a theatre in which the undergraduates were the audience and the actors were the dons …" It's hard to be a writer in this country and not write about class and, for Alan, given that "common" was his mother's deadliest insult, impossible.

"Tough is confused with cold; single-mindedness is confused with arrogance; and if a woman doesn't dress the feminine and fashionable part, she's labeled masculine, the deadliest insult of all".

The silence of the countryside is not acquiescence but menace; for centuries the code has demanded a deadly reprisal for any insult to honor.

Taxay noted that Barber's rendition of McKinley for that medal had attracted the insult of "deadly" from the chief engraver's longtime enemy, sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens.

They fire the ball around the infield, fearlessly, and with deadly accuracy, and they are insulted when a base runner attempts to steal a base.