Sentence examples for rebuffs a from inspiring English sources

Similarly, after Irina coolly rebuffs a declaration of love from the shy captain Soleny (Alexander Koshkarev), they share a feverish, passionate clinch.

Yeshi, though, in his late teens, strongly rebuffs a life expected by others, including his father, to whom he does not feel especially close.

When Mary rebuffs a powerful kingpin, Raymond Pettijohn, who has cornered the market on a numbers game called bolito, the result is a bilingual form of pulp fiction: I'm sorry, Mr. Pettijohn, she said, but it's no use.

After months of rebuffs, a consortium led by Grupo Ferrovial, a Spanish construction company, has moved a step closer to its ambition of taking over BAA, a British company which is the world's biggest operator of airports.

Early in the play an editor at a London newspaper rebuffs a reporter wanting to do an interview with Gellhorn by saying: "Why on earth should anyone have the slightest interest in her now?

Ms. Steenburgen's Gayle, a recovering alcoholic who speaks fluent Spanish, attends a local 12-step meeting, and Ms. Taylor's Leslie, a hard-headed single New Yorker who works in publishing, rebuffs a macho teenage beach boy, one of many idle Latino men avariciously buzzing around the visitors.

Later at the party, Ryan rebuffs an intoxicated Summer, but Seth misinterprets the encounter and reveals Ryan's real background.

He variously described it as "a savage rebuff", "a massive rebuff", "an unprecedented rebuff" and "a massive miscalculation".

Shire said it had rebuffed a £27bn approach from Chicago-based AbbVie.

The academy also rebuffed a counterproposal today by Mr. Penelas.

In keeping with a lower profile, he rebuffed a request for an interview.