Sentence examples for rebuffs with from inspiring English sources

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And his discoveries are chiefly in the nature of petty bourgeois rebuffs, with no inquiry into the devious cultural mores from which they spring.Likewise it is amazing that the writer who undertakes this probe should be so astonished to discover that anti-Semitism is cruel.

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I was rebuffed with dutiful answers.

Contrast the agribusiness rebuff with the response Steve Milovich received when he raised similar concerns within Disney.

Since Genoa was not his goal, he accepted this rebuff with equanimity.

She said her efforts to inquire into Madoff's operation were rebuffed with disdain.

Others, though, content with New York's already abundant headaches, welcomed the rebuff with relief.

Any man who tries to date her is rebuffed with haughty, dagger-eyed contempt.

It would be interesting to know how many other customers have been rebuffed with the same excuse.

Invitations to come and chew qat, the favoured recreational drug of most highland Yemenis, were rebuffed with difficulty.

Beggars can be deftly rebuffed with a piece of deferred responsibility: allah yisahellik, "may God make things easier for you".

Indians contrasted the rebuff with the nine hours of direct access granted the F.B.I. to interrogate Ajmal Kasab, the lone surviving perpetrator of the Mumbai attacks.

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