Sentence examples for derisive phrase from inspiring English sources

"A major reason I was sent to Washington was to defund Obamacare," said Representative Joe Walsh, a freshman lawmaker from Illinois, using the Republicans' derisive phrase for the health care overhaul.

He lived, in the derisive phrase of Fred Siegel, a historian at Cooper Union, "inside a double bubble" -- the bubble of the Upper East Side and the bubble of the corporate boardroom.

One one occasion, Lavery responded angrily to a warning from Abbott that Labour should not give ground to arguments against migration, accusing her of calling him "gammon" – the derisive phrase used by lefty activists to describe middle-aged white men with reactionary views.

At a time when the U.S. and global financial systems are under the most intense stress since the 1930s, Bernanke's leisurely pace is a reminder of how the derisive phrase "banker's hours" originated.

Suppose that the freedom involved is not the compatibilist "freedom of the turnspit" (to borrow Kant's derisive phrase) but the robust freedom that implies both that the agent is the unsourced source of the action and that the agent could have done otherwise.

Los Angeles opponents coined the derisive phrase "toilet to tap" in 2000 before torpedoing a plan to filter purified sewage water into an underground reservoir — a technique called indirect potable reuse.

Perhaps more damning, many young theater artists I spoke with generally dismissed the notion of any drama that seemed realistic with derisive phrases like "kitchen sink" or "front porch".

Kelly Magsamen, a former high-ranking Pentagon official, borrowed one of Trump's derisive phrasing.

There is hardly a distant corner on the earth where some soldier or sailor has not been miserably perched, and one of these days, some unhappy lecturer eulogizing some far-off Eden, is almost certain to be gree ed with phrases of derisive dialect culled from all the quaint lands of the world.

In the late 1940s, in the Partisan Review, Baldwin coined the phrase "protest fiction," a derisive designation for those African-American themed novels in which black characters were too obviously victimized by their circumstances, or were made to seem too mythically sexual.

This burgeoning archetype, however, had its oddest interpretation at A.P.C., maker of high quality classic staples, where its notoriously derisive creative director Jean Touitou chose the phrase "The Last Niggas in Paris," repeated throughout the presentation, as the collection's key theme.