Sentence examples for imputing from inspiring English sources

He begins by giving Ed Schultz a well-deserved raspberry for imputing racist sentiment to Rick Perry's reference to debt as "a black cloud" (boneheaded as Mr Schultz's comment may be, it is hard to wholly deplore something that led to such a great Daily Show sketch).

But the human emotions come with so much linguistic and behavioural baggage that imputing them to a cat, or even a chimp, runs the risk of anthropomorphisation.

Is it anachronistic, in the sense of imputing modern feelings to ancient acts, to be sickened by such things?

Rule XIX, Paragraphs 2 and 3 — one of the original rules drawn from Thomas Jefferson's "Manual of Parliamentary Practice" — bars senators from imputing unworthy conduct or motives to another senator, and from insulting any senator's state.

But in Judge Gary's opinion, "For a man to say that he is prejudiced against horse thieves is no ground for imputing to him any misconduct as a juror".

Clinton's] first steps in the Senate will be; anyone who says he does, based on her past performance, makes the mistake of imputing her acts to character rather than to situation.

They do it with insults, imputing personal awfulness.

But some expressed discomfort at his practice of imputing thoughts directly to DiMaggio, who had refused to be interviewed for the book.

Katzenberg, Geffen and Spielberg were all known for creating distinctive works, not formulaic ones, yet LaPorte oversimplifies their ambition by imputing domineering, if not dictatorial, motives to them.

Laura Secor replies: The Leveretts answer an unfavorable review with a torrent of ad hominem insinuations, imputing to me the political views they find the most conveniently preposterous and assigning me guilt by association with everyone from Ahmad Chalabi to the shah.

Moreover it ignores the fact that large tracts of humankind (the Chinese for a numerous example) have no beliefs in a supreme being, innate or learned, and that most primitive religion is animistic, a simple extension of the agency-imputing explanation which gives each tree its dryad and each stream its nymph, no supreme beings required.