Sentence examples for extreme term from inspiring English sources

At most, they demonstrate the existence of a man… somewhat toward the pithecoid type… the Neanderthal cranium… forms… the extreme term of a series leading gradually from it to the highest and best developed of human crania" (Huxley 1863, p. 149).

When you do catch yourself using one of those words, immediately replace it in your thoughts with a less extreme term.

Newell sees this in rather extreme terms.

Such extreme terms could not be accepted.

Declining poverty in extreme terms has shown significant regional fluctuations, however.

Such detachment and purgation were frequently expressed in extreme terms that imply the renunciation of all human ties.

Locally, he became famous for his letters to the Los Alamos Monitor, chastising in extreme terms the continued bomb-building activities at LANL.

Frayn is not a man to describe himself in any extreme terms but he was, he says now, beset, looking back, by a sudden sense of mortality.

His former deputy private secretary, Mark Bolland, has described how he saw "on many occasions … letters which, for example, denounced the elected leaders of other countries in extreme terms".

It takes you back to a heady time when women were throwing out old, patriarchal laws and reinventing art in all kinds of idiosyncratic and sometimes dangerously extreme terms.

The policies of the past year may have clarified the division between the entitled and the dispossessed in extreme terms, but the context for social unrest cuts much deeper.