Sentence examples for ever the object of from inspiring English sources

Ostentation, ever the object of parodic portraits, is characteristic of Serov's later works (Portrait of Olga Orlova, 1911).

On account of the same fertility of their islands, however, the inhabitants are ever the object of plots, albeit they are peaceable; still they are spoken of as the best of slingers.

And never mind that the audience is seldom, if ever, the object of any of the jokes.

British politics since the 1990s has witnessed a paradoxical process in which lobbying has become ever more important to government, yet ever more the object of public suspicion.

Has any other cartoon ever been the object of quite so much ridicule?

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There is nothing especially unusual about that, of course - except that in this instance neither the accused nor his alleged victim had ever met the object of their affections, nor did they plan to do so.

Kony is the closest thing the world has to a honest-to-God, beyond-the-pale serial killer with an army of followers, and he has been on the run, and on the rampage, these past twenty years, without ever being the object of a concerted international effort to catch him.

Without esse essentiae a thing (res) could never belong to the categories, nor could it ever be the object of meaningful scientific statements; yet it is that which is proper to each essence that places it within a given predicament.

In each case, finite time — time that is about to reach its term; the future, more threatening than ever before — is the object of concern, animating the joke.

The large map, a masterpiece of woodblock printing, has been a star attraction at the library ever since and the object of revived scholarly fascination about the earliest cartography of the New World.