Sentence examples for of a blot from inspiring English sources

The Coen brothers' most recent remake, of the classic Ealing comedy The Ladykillers, was something of a blot on their otherwise fairly unblemished CV.

The north coast has tiny coves and wild cliffs, particularly east of Cemlyn Bay, where the nuclear power station isn't as much of a blot on the landscape as might be assumed.

Once a well is drilled something that can be done increasingly speedily it is scarcely more of a blot on the landscape than a garden shed.

Mr. Huckabee told the story of a decorated Iraq war veteran, Anthony Circosta, who could not get a job as a police officer because of a blot on his record for harmlessly shooting another boy with a BB gun at age 13. "He was in Mitt Romney's state," Mr. Huckabee said, "and Mitt Romney twice said no because Mitt Romney wants to brag that he never ever gave a pardon.

Think of the gruesomely entitled ArcelorMittal Orbit, that roller coaster of a blot on the landscape of East London that eventually transmogrified, after a fierce and unseemly battle between aesthetics and mammon, into a spectacular viewing platform for the 2012 Olympics.

To some eyes, it appears that the center lane of a blot image has been spliced in.

Corporal punishment is a sin in the name of religion, a blot on a civilized nation.

It is, of course, a blot on Radiohead's copy book that they didn't attend sixth form with Rosie, but they played a tremendous set all the same.

Gaiman's hero was different: remote and troubled, ironic and proud, with an archaic vocabulary and a head of hair like a blot of fountain-pen ink.

After they voted, by circling a name on the ballot, an official marked the index finger of their left hands with a blot of indelible ink.

But his refusal to speak out publicly and clearly about China's repressive behavior is an abdication of leadership and a blot on his record.