Sentence examples for sour spot from inspiring English sources

"I, Malvolio" improbably finds its own delicate sweet (and sour) spot between comedy and self-subverting analysis.

The Republicans have hit a sour spot in politics — they are 180 degrees opposed to what most Americans want on just about any issue you care to name.

Right now, then, a kind of sour spot seems like a pretty plausible outcome for Republicans: A shutdown that lasts just long enough to convince swing voters that the G.O.P. can't be trusted with the reins of government, but also ends with the party's grassroots convinced that they've been sold out by their leaders once again.

The iPad's lack of removable storage is still a sour spot among even its most fervent supporters.

"Sour spot" neighborhoods with high pollution and low walkability tended to be located far from the city center.

Life was sweet and even, with no bumps or sour spots.

The prevalences of overall sweet- and sour-spot postal codes in Table 3 are 1.7% and 4.6%, respectively.

Figure 3 also illustrates postal codes in the most and least desirable tertile for each attribute: "Sweet-spot" postal codes are high walkability, low pollution; "sour-spot" postal codes are the opposite (low walkability, high pollution).

They suggest that when considering multiple attributes of the built environment, analysts may be able to identify areas trading off one attribute for the other, as well as sweet- and sour-spot locations.

Sour-spot postal codes are predominantly from the middle three income quintiles and tend to be spread far from the city center (mean ± SD distance from city center, r= 22 ± 11 km).

In contrast, sour-spot postal codes are far from the city center, are spread more widely, and are occupied mostly by middle-income groups, although the degree of income segregation is less than for the sweet spots.