Sentence examples for outrageous letter from inspiring English sources

In March, every Republican senator signed an outrageous letter to the White House warning that they would filibuster any nominee from their home states if they did not approve the choice in advance.

Even while enmeshed in the bureaucratic tangle that would eventually defeat her, she had the chutzpah to send the governor of the state of Guanabara (basically Rio de Janeiro), who was her biggest political ally, an outrageous letter proposing herself as his successor and wryly comparing herself with other candidates.

He met several times with the Quaker, Mary Prince, after receiving an "outrageous letter" from her.

The famous Jewish author and moral authority, Elie Wiesel, published recently an outrageous letter about Jerusalem.

I also loved the outrageous Letters of Kingsley Amis edited by Zachary Leader (HarperCollins).

The most outrageous letters are greeted with showers of confetti and an atmosphere of political incorrectness prevails, with frequent off-colour jokes about everything from Hitler to circumcision.

"I WAS lucky", writes Alice Munro, introducing her 11th collection of short stories, "in that every generation of our family seemed to produce somebody who went in for writing long, outspoken, sometimes outrageous letters, and detailed recollections".

True, of course, and a valid point, yet one finds it hard to resist the urge to respond as Larkin would have done in one of his outrageous letters to Kingsley Amis, by saying: "Bum".

Object though you will, I call this manner aestheticism and formalism and I say that you have no right…to try and tuck these tangled events into your philosophical scheme (schönen und weisen Allgemeinheiten): what results is inadequate and outrageous" (Letters of Martin Buber, p. 189).

His parents, wary of the outrageous letters he sent from the road, sent him a $30 Canon Dial half-frame camera to document it all.

His best-selling books include Dear Dad - Letters From An Adult Child, a collection of alternately touching and outrageous letters from Louie to his late father, and Good¬bye Jumbo...Hello Cruel World, self-help for those who struggle with self-esteem issues, and his latest installment on family, The F Word, How To Survive Your Family.