Sentence examples for in a dagger from inspiring English sources

Moralist that he is, Hollinghurst generally prefers to proceed through subtle modulations of irony, slipping in a dagger rather than wielding a cutlass.

The film was shown at the 1940 Venice Film Festival, where it was excitedly received, including by — in a dagger to the heart — the young reviewer and later director Michelangelo Antonioni.

Then it plunges back down on its southern end, joining the roof of the smaller concert venue before meeting the ground in a dagger-like point.

The protagonists are Mr. Darcy, a dashing aristocrat who has killed more than 1,000 zombies since Cambridge fell to the undead, and the beautiful and quick-witted Elizabeth Bennet, who is skilled in wielding a dagger.

"The emperors had their portraits painted holding flowers in one hand and a dagger in the other," she says.

"For business, labor laws are a thorn in the side, not a dagger in the heart," Mr. Sabharwal said.

(It was once common to fight with a sword in one hand and a dagger in the other, for example).

"I would say losing El Chayo is a thorn in the side, not a dagger in the heart," said George W. Grayson, the author of "Mexico: Narco-Violence and a Failed State?" "El Chango is really the top leader".

Manish Sabharwal of TeamLease, who campaigns for their reform, feels that, for much of Indian industry, "they are a thorn in the flesh, not a dagger in the heart".

Knives II Senior referees for professional sumo in Japan wear a dagger (tantō) as part of their uniform.

In his all-black outfit and black gaucho hat, his stethoscope around his neck and his medical tools in hand -- a dagger and two Phillips screwdrivers -- he seemed an unlikely medical man.