Sentence examples for less rotten from inspiring English sources

Both men, as has been established, are now dead on their feet, although the Frenchman looks the marginally less rotten (a few less worms wriggling from his eye sockets).

But Congress may not approve it, not least because some are less rotten than the state forces, which would take their place.In this section The president and the prosecutor My way or the highway Empty shelves and rhetoric The Mexican morass ReprintsIn the government's defence, the rule of law cannot be created in Mexico overnight.

To sample fresh carcasses would demand a lot more work from the hunter and would most probably result in many carcasses being more or less rotten, as transportation often takes at least a day or two.

Moreover, writes J.P. Morgan analyst Carl Seiden, Lilly is one of the less-rotten apples–he likes the company because he thinks its strong pipeline will eventually provide growth.

Acclaimed the biggest sporting figure in the world at his peak, Nurmi was averse to publicity and the media, stating later on his 75th birthday, "[W]orldly fame and reputation are worth less than a rotten lingonberry".

The latter couldn't care less, displaying, through their rotten luck and bodies stiffened with radioactivity, that you needn't spend time in the classroom to fuck and then clink glasses of ice-cool beer after.

The new edition of Alexander Solzhenitsyn's epic novel, "In the First Circle" (Harper Perennial, $18), captures better than any other work of fiction the quintessence of communist rule at its Stalinist peak: all-pervasive, paranoid, oppressive, incompetent, lethal.By 1989 that system had become more rotten and less frightening, especially in the east European satellites of the evil empire.

You'll find the decent ones getting less patient and the rotten ones will be looking for any excuse to twist someone up.

The weather is rotten, more or less, from October to May.

The first time I reviewed a number of poets together (an "omnibus" chronicle for The Hudson Review), I struck off, justly or unjustly, some pretty lively sentences about poets whose work seemed of less than star quality; my "rotten" reviewing self, back in those days, felt limber and full of mischief.

It is nothing less than an indictment of the whole rotten system of mandatory arbitration of credit card disputes.