Sentence examples for or tarnished from inspiring English sources

I was aware of another thing: the rest of the mirror looked dull or tarnished.

Whistleblowers are dismissed or tarnished, while senior staff are not held to account.

The pickup games had attracted such talent that reputations could be built or tarnished in a single night.

Sandel is more worried about the things that can be traded without being completely destroyed, but at the price of becoming somehow degraded or tarnished.

But the miracle of "The Breath of Life," which recently extended its run into January, is that both its leading, uh, dames are giving performances that do not seem cast in bronze, inflated by camp or tarnished with mildew.

Mr. Washington, perhaps the most effortlessly charismatic American film actor since Paul Newman, is, like Newman, best when his magnetism is dented by failure or tarnished by meanness or sleaze.

Not even the crude assault of Congressional subversive hunters could rattle her professionalism or tarnish her reputation.

Was there any corrosion or tarnish on any of the packets?" At this point I was struggling to keep a straight face, but I truthfully answered, "No sir, there was no tarnish or corrosion on any of the packets we received".

Whether the scandal will burnish or tarnish the reputation of the agency, as well as that of Mr. Gensler, will depend on how quickly authorities can locate the missing money and pinpoint what went wrong.

Perhaps fearing that the specter of the earnest Tom Hanks of "Apollo 13" and "Forrest Gump" snorting cocaine could be hard to accept — or tarnish his image as the likable leading man — the filmmakers made sure he did not partake on screen.

Michael W. Traugott, president of the American Association for Public Opinion Research, an organization of commercial, political and academic pollsters, said that push-polling was designed to accomplish one of two things: Either convince people to change from one candidate to another, or tarnish an opponent's reputation in hopes of reducing the number of people who will vote for him.