Sentence examples for much decried from inspiring English sources

Though deeply unpopular by the end of his long reign and much decried for his alleged growing autocratic streak, he had governed this beautiful, impoverished country well, bringing education, health and democratic rights to its 2m predominantly rural people.

Indeed, the darkest and most engaging element in the novel is not the circus but the relationships between the children and their guardians, who resemble nothing so much as the kind of overattentive, hyper-achievement-­oriented, controlling parents much decried in modern media.

Hawthorne famously characterised female authors as "damn mobs of scribbling women" while Jane Austen declared of (female romance) novelists: "Although our productions have afforded more extensive and unaffected pleasure than those of any other literary corporation in the world, no species of composition has been so much decried".

"Although our productions have afforded more extensive and unaffected pleasure than those of any other literary corporation in the world," Jane Austen declared, "no species of composition has been so much decried".

I saw the very fellow against whom I've spent more than eight years railing, and his wife Laura, sitting in the second row, near the Democrat who was at times much decried and abandoned by those of his own party, as well as the opponents whose loathing of him was never a secret.

The French weakness, much decried of late by Anglo-American historians, for shrugging in the face of their own intellectuals' weakness for systems that would destroy their own freedoms is greeted by Stein with… a shrug.

"We just can't tell you how much we decry the attempts by Moktada's militia, Moktada possibly himself, to violate the sacred holy shrines of the Shia religion for his own personal gain, for his own personal advancement," General Kimmitt said.

Most of the internet commentariat or scholars who have been interviewed about Trump's fascist bona fides have avoided discounting the question on the grounds of style – though oddly, given how much he decries the search for externals in his own scholarly work, Paxton has recently emerged as something of an exception.

Liberal party pollster Mark Textor, whose firm lobbies for the Australian Petroleum Production and Exploration Association, acknowledged as much when he decried the emotional nature of political debates.

And down in Houston, we listened to older women talk about the peace movement and mass incarceration nearly as much as they decried how ugly politics has gotten in their lifetimes... but not a single woman brought up social security or Medicare.

Democracy is proclaimed as one of the EU's values in its treaties, and the union is eager to vaunt its adherence to these values, however much its opponents have decried a "democratic deficit".