Sentence examples for it was pummeled from inspiring English sources

This is its first full-fledged production, and it was pummeled by local critics who, though generally taking time to admire Ms. Pawk, found the show perplexing and insufficiently emotional, bearing the sledge-hammer dents of heavyweight theater professionals trying to bang an unwieldy chassis into shape.

Mohammed Hussein al-Halbusi has not just rebuilt his kebab restaurant since it was pummeled by American bombs in October 2004, killing his son, niece and nephew.

Grace is also trying to emerge from bankruptcy, for which it filed in 2001 as it was pummeled by tens of thousands of personal injury claims from all over the country by people exposed to asbestos in the company's products.

Millions around the world got a first-hand look at what it was like to be in Tacloban while it was pummeled by Supertyphoon Haiyan's winds and then flooded by its surge, thanks to on-the-scene video captured by Josh Morgerman and his storm-chasing colleagues.

It was pummeling, it was punishing, but I can't think of a thing I'd change.

And Cronenberg captures every clammy square inch of Mortensen's well-toned flesh as it's pummeled and slashed and slammed into the unforgiving bathhouse tiles by two clothed real-life professional fighters, turning an otherwise excruciating four minutes of film into a quintessential Cronenberg statement.

Third, it is pummelling producers ("price-gougers" and "bloodsuckers", as Mr Davis prefers to call them) through price caps and rebates.

And these years since your stroke have been nothing but adventure, really: breakthroughs, new things, so many firsts – but it's pummelled me a wee bit".

Watching her perform live, there's no doubt that the voice controls the woman, rather than vice versa: her body contorts around it, as though it's pummelling her from the inside.

In Mary's Cherries, a long, red nail is clipped and passed through a line of labourers in beauticians' uniforms, where it is pummelled and then rolled to form a glossy glacé cherry.

And it didn't help that Mr. O'Brien was pummeled on Mr. Leno's old perch.