Sentence examples for invidious about from inspiring English sources

DQ: But what seems invidious about prizes is that choosing a winner excludes others.

Higher inflation does the job more naturally, without invidious choices about whose debt got reduced.

Like other novels of the period, "Dracula" contains invidious remarks about Jews.

When the cap is rolled out nationally, local authorities will face invidious choices about where to house families.

This has led to some embarrassments not only the Dresdner fiasco, but also some invidious remarks about the creditworthiness of Leo Kirch, a customer.

Many Americans honestly believe that Muslims are prone to violence, but humans are too complicated and diverse to lump into groups that we form invidious conclusions about.

Anne Rice's highly public mea culpa over "Interview With the Vampire," in which she retracted her invidious comments about Tom Cruise's abilities to measure up to her majestic undead hero, remains the prime example.

What he means is that he will not be trapped into making invidious remarks about his contemporaries in public (exactly what I tried to get him to do 20 years later).

The social conditions that allow loneliness to proliferate the decline of a commitment to the collective, the loosening of ties and obligations to the community are the same ones in which invidious feelings about strangers can arise, and even lead to violent acts against them.

The social conditions that allow loneliness to proliferate — the decline of a commitment to the collective, the loosening of ties and obligations to the community — are the same ones in which invidious feelings about strangers can arise, and even lead to violent acts against them.

I only talk about people who've been dead a long time". A little later someone asks: "Why is your work so obscure while Spender's is so clear?" Auden: "I don't talk about things like that". What he means is that he will not be trapped into making invidious remarks about his contemporaries in public (exactly what I tried to get him to do 20 years later).