Sentence examples for slighting of from inspiring English sources

The slighting of Cam Newton going into the N.F.L. draft last April was anything but slight.

By then, Lin had smacked into another barrier, the slighting of Harvard.

The slighting of other faiths can only undermine the important progress made in interfaith relations since the Second Vatican Council.

A racial skirmish ensued over the slighting of Jackson with only one half-staff day, and a black campaign to rename the airport after Jackson met white resistance.

My major concern, however, is Phillips's slighting of the volume of Hemingway's letters, edited by Sandra Spanier and Robert W. Trogdon, as "repetitive and dull," driving the "general reader" to "skimming," and full of "precious, even fetishistic" scholarly attention.

It was slightly more than 20 years after Beach had closed her doors, in fear of German retaliation following her slighting of an SS officer, that Le Mistral became the second Shakespeare and Company.

Mr. Pataki's proposed budget also contains a terrible bit of financial slight-of-hand.

The men recently did another slight-of-eye project -- the towers of light, the World Trade Center memorial.

Here is an example of the logical slight-of-hand used by free market ideologues.

There was the slightest of pauses.

"He was so slight of build.