Sentence examples for deplored as from inspiring English sources

But even before then, his personal politics made him a lightning rod, and he soon became known as the company's "house liberal," an epithet he deplored as unfair.

Some liberals acknowledged in recent days that they were willing to accept policies they once would have deplored as long as they were in Mr. Obama's hands, not Mr. Bush's.

Clemens's friend William Dean Howells, to be sure, was also a friend of Edith Wharton's friend Henry James (who didn't care for Clemens nor Clemens for him), but Howells spurned the overtures of H. L. Mencken's friend Theodore Dreiser, whose bodacious improprieties in life and art Howells deplored (as did Mencken, eventually).

With the Hurricane Sandy relief legislation, which many conservatives deplored as bloated with giveaways and far too expensive, 179 Republicans voted no.

The lyrics had been written in anger, as a response to Irving Berlin's "God Bless America," which Woody Guthrie deplored as treacle.

The wives of the Jewish merchants, except for Eva, live in elaborate wooden houses, the kind Cather's archbishop deplored as being alien to the land.

Quotes one of the passages Achebe deplores as racist.

It is a good example of what I deplore as "government by Twitter": knee-jerk and shallow.

The upstairs that Mrs. Lazio deplores as a "wreck" includes the gently tumbled rooms of their two young daughters.

Like the Metropolitan Opera broadcasts that presumably inspired the project, the NT Live series is not something I deplore as a desecration of the art form.

Over the past five years Mr Osborne (who in 2008 pledged to match the Labour spending plans that he now deplores as spendthrift) has performed an ideological grand jeté.