Sentence examples for public roasting from inspiring English sources
Labour were about to get a public roasting over their menacingly ill-defined proposals for private sector involvement in health and education.
This softness was torpedoed via a very American ritual of a public roasting, with famous pals such as Snoop Dogg, Kevin Hart and, er, Martha Stewart queueing up to poke fun at him.
Sure, I'm not really anyone important to them, but I represent a generation of African-American men who looked up to West and Smiley – only to see them damage their legacies by engaging in embarrassing public roasts of President Obama.
Know of any other public chile roasts we've missed?
Today it's not the usual Saturday pineapple pizza – "the most popular by public demand" – but roast pork from the pig.
Now, in the wake of the public accounts committee's roasting of BBC executives, the culture secretary Maria Miller has indicated she wants the National Audit Office to have greater and immediate access to the BBC.
Asked what solutions the researchers propose, the answer is: more keepers with sharp sticks, and encouragement to the public to eat more roast pork.
The boyishly nice-looking guy from Nebraska, collegiate and witty, who killed 'em out of the public eye at Friars' roasts and trade lunches while hosting the ungrammatically named game show "Who Do You Trust?" (TV's earliest dumbing down?) The powers could breathe easily.
The public and the media roasted both candidates over their poor performances at the first Democratic debate earlier this month, where Chafee made one of the most eyebrow-raising statements of the night.
"But the support, I think, is even above and beyond dollars and cents," said Barry Feldman, the town manager who is so enthusiastic that he submitted himself to public ridicule last spring at a roast to benefit the project.
How do you welcome back a player who reportedly is bitter about your refusal to offer him a contract extension, whom you all but traded from his home of 15 years and who was roasted by the public and the press on his way out the door?
