Sentence examples for he foisted from inspiring English sources

The bargain he foisted on his people food for autocracy ultimately curbed their potential.

Once he foisted his views on you, you were not required to be unmoved.

Instead he foisted a female-heavy "A-list" of his preferred candidates onto the local Tory associations that pick them.

He was banished from Athens by Hipparchus, the son of Pisistratus, because he foisted into the writings of Musaeus a prophecy that the islands which lie off Lemnos would one day disappear in the sea.

But it's the remarkable barnet he foisted on Javier Bardem in their latest, No Country For Old Men, that has raised eyebrows.

The turning point in Mr. De Sapio's reign came in 1958, when he foisted his own candidate for the Senate, District Attorney Frank Hogan of Manhattan, on reluctant Democratic leaders, including Harriman and Wagner.

Carol Piper says: Has anyone noticed that it is written by a MAN! How dare he foist his own chauvinistic brainwashing onto the rest of us?

Consistent with the clichés of the day, the general had a lascivious streak — he foists "sing-song" girls on an American missionary — but he remains a man of depths; he sweetly recites love poems and waxes philosophical to the heroine.

Fellowes takes this to new heights, or perhaps depths: whereas previous adapters of the story have made their star-crossed lovers fictional, he foists an invented upper-class suffragette on an actual first-class passenger, Harry Widener, to whose death Harvard students owe their university library, built as a memorial by Harry's mother.

Every now and then the point of view suddenly swoops into another time, or a passing flight attendant, say, and we are abruptly reminded of how limited Carter's perspective is, or how he looks to that 74-year-old neighbor on whom he foists his dog whenever he's going on retreat.

Mr. Delcroix may have had a ball creating "Grain de Folie," but for anyone familiar with the heady high jinks of Jerome Robbins ("The Concert," say, or the percussion section of "Fanfare") or the balletic romps of Charlie Chaplin, the mugging, flailing and shimmying he foists on his dancers seem rather desperate.