Sentence examples for particular epithet from inspiring English sources

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Among the worst offenders were the Beastie Boys, who favored a particular epithet in telephone conversations with her.

Indeed, the Court observed that use of this particular epithet is common parlance in labor disputes and has specifically been held to be entitled to the protection of § 7 of the NLRA.

Last year, when the student council participated in a movement to remove a statue of the colonial-era businessman Cecil Rhodes from campus, Mr. Mahapa received racist emails calling him a monkey or baboon, but never this particular epithet, he said.

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Those particular epithets don't have the greatest track record (they call Vista to mind primarily), but they do bespeak the small-medium-large idea going on here.

Mr. Hampton's libretto, drawn largely from firsthand accounts, is filled with elegantly turned phrases sprinkled with one particular racial epithet an American writer might have avoided.

But insularity can also create an echo chamber: during one song here Mr. Madrox used a particular racial epithet -- the same one that got the more mainstream John Mayer in trouble a couple of weeks ago -- and no one in the largely white crowd appeared to flinch.

If Fraley's performance didn't ring quite true, Feinberg would warn, "It still doesn't sound like you're on the river". As producers, the men had to figure out what to do about Twain's use, more than 300 times, of a particular racial epithet.

True, Jones's particular choice of epithet had none of the one-syllable concision, the onomatopoeic suggestiveness, the explosive charm of Cheney's.

He said he hated his own hit "My Name Is," vowed to murder various people and slung homophobic epithets with particular vitriol.

Cat, 16, described being constantly harassed at her high school, where the football team in particular taunted her with epithets that mocked her sexual orientation and would yell, "If you sleep with me one night, you'll change!" She tried dating boys, she said, and when she confessed to her boyfriend that she was attracted to girls, he raped her.

Conservatives, particularly the festive crew at Fox News, take particular umbrage at the phrase "Happy Holidays," believing its utterance is an epithet directed at the faithful.

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