Sentence examples for he deprecated from inspiring English sources

M. Huysmans made a speech at Madrid in which he deprecated the policy of non-intervention.

Marcel may justly be called the first French Phenomenologist and the first French Existential philosopher (though he deprecated the term Existentialism).

Nietzsche gave short shrift to mathematical aspects of music, and like Schopenhauer he deprecated blatantly programmatic music that abounds in obvious imitations of natural sounds.

Cockburn took dry issue with his lifetime friend and rival Christopher Hitchens's monstering of Mother Teresa: if you were starving in a Bombay gutter, he asked, loftily unconcerned that Teresa operated in Kolkata, "Who would be more likely to give you a bowl of soup?" Only a few weeks ago, he deprecated the fashion for finding signs of fascism in European politics.

He deprecated self-conscious interaction with the audience and insisted on a style of portrayal in which the characters were never aware of their own absurdity but were coherent internal wholes.

He deprecates male chauvinism.

But he deprecates this as 'just having a decent memory'.

Murray seems to recognise that he has sometimes engaged in the forms of conflict he deprecates in others.

"I have written you the vilest and most Egotistical letter that was ever scribbled," as he deprecates, in a moment of false modesty, to Lady Melbourne in September 1812.

He deprecates the former as either undeserving of study or as a fictional entity, and promotes the latter as the only scientifically respectable object of study for a serious linguistics.

Indeed, one reason why Mr Olmert chose to go back to the road map he so deprecated may have been to wrong-foot his chief rival by making him look like an obstacle to peace.