Sentence examples for like a breach from inspiring English sources

Mr. Urban makes Woodrow's judgment of Maggie so genuinely priggish that what should resonate as a psychological and moral failing seems instead like a breach of etiquette, analogous to a man who keeps forgetting to bring hostess gifts to dinner.

Despite Ed Miliband's recent efforts, orating from a wooden pallet in provincial shopping centres and taking on all-comers, that does not look like a breach that is likely to be quickly healed.

It feels to them like a breach, a boundary violation".

From this vantage, the new exclusion guidelines may seem like a breach of human rights.

This, he said, felt "like a breach of trust and I can't argue with her being aggravated about that".

Booing at the opera may seem like a breach of protocol, but for better or worse it's a tradition.

There's just no sight quite like a breaching humpback whale.

The bow of the boat leaped out of the water and crashed down, like a breaching whale.

But now, to see them attack each other, is like seeing a breach within a family.

"I felt I had to report a comment from a tutee, and it felt like a huge breach of trust, and racist to boot," one respondent said.

This suggests an absence of transparency and honesty and a failure to admit to what looks to me like a grave breach of media ethics.