Sentence examples for dereliction I from inspiring English sources

Among the catalogue of dereliction, I find this to be the most potentially damaging for inmates, and subsequently the rest of us on "the out".

Ginsberg's poem Howl (1955-6) sees creativity as an ordeal akin to madness and dereliction: "I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked …" But in the title of his poem Death to Van Gogh's Ear!, he seems to reject that cult of the "mad" artist, to mock Van Gogh's ear as an icon of creative suffering.

This is the same team that's supposed to clean and refuel the vehicles, but their efforts seemed too few or too feeble to deal with the dereliction: I've found seats caked with mud, wiper fluid sputtering, gas tanks filled with fumes.

It's a terrible dereliction of duty I know, but in all my years of theatre-going I've managed to miss every single revival of Rodgers and Hammerstein's musical.

So to begin remedying my regrettable dereliction of duty, I am sharing this hamster video with you this morning, just to get you in the holiday spirit.

I don't accept dereliction of duty, but I could have done more".

It was an appalling dereliction of duty and I'm astounded that she's still in her job".

But that would have been such a mass dereliction of duty that I'm loth to believe it happened on such a scale.

Making things up during a headline speech on the second night of a convention is a gross dereliction of journalistic duty, I readily concede.

I plead dereliction of duty: we've done it three times in 17 years - we even took them on our honeymoon.

"Well," Ian demurs, "it shows a shocking dereliction of duty…" "I'm glad you agree," interrupts Nick, knowing full well that Lehair is halfway to making a point about something else.