"The OM midfielder has promised to end right now the publication of any invidious comment against Thiago Silva".
Polly Toynbee (Comment, 26 July) rightly deplores the discrimination and invidious treatment that older women face across the media and a range of private sector organisations.
His comments elicited mild reprimands—Harold Bloom, for one, found it "a little invidious of him to want to have it both ways, to want the benefits of it and not jeopardize his high aesthetic standing"—and eventually a dishonorable disinvitation from "The Oprah Winfrey Show".
His comments elicited mild reprimands — Harold Bloom, for one, found it "a little invidious of him to want to have it both ways, to want the benefits of it and not jeopardize his high aesthetic standing" — and eventually a dishonorable disinvitation from "The Oprah Winfrey Show".
But the Oxbridge connection is more invidious than this and if it hasn't been considered worthy of comment during the leadership contest, it's in part because in Britain most people who do the commenting also went there.
Despite the 21-year-old's head being turned by Chelsea, Martínez claims Stones was placed in an invidious position by Mourinho's public courting of the defender, with the Portuguese's comments backed up by John Terry and Gary Cahill in what Martínez felt was an orchestrated campaign at Stamford Bridge to unsettle the player.
While Gutmann made it clear she wouldn't "stoop to the level" of commenting on specific political statements, she did say that discrimination against Muslims is "invidious," adding, "Not only is it not called for and disgraceful, but it's also unconstitutional".
Such generalisations are invidious.
Any comparisons were invidious.
This placed Tsipras in an invidious position.
