Sentence examples for spite with from inspiring English sources

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Over the course of 10 solo albums he has continued to meet the world's spite with his own weary spleen.

The result blends Mean Girls' spite with Juno's verbal virtuosity for the best high-school literary trip since Clueless.

"Orelsan expresses a lover's spite, with terms that are not my own — I don't speak exactly the same language — but he has every right to express it," the minister told RTL Radio.

Then, as if backing away from a lover's embrace, comes "Worst Behavior," the most chaotic and rowdy song here, which seethes with spite, with Drake invoking Mase's casually swaggering verse on the Notorious B.I.G.'s "Mo' Money Mo' Problems".

So while Strummer was "fucking off to the mountains of Spain to sit sobbing under a palm tree" Jones was already up and running with a new band, Big Audio Dynamite, fuelled by the type of determination that only comes when there are ex-band members/friends to spite with your own success.

But his reworking of older ones was sly and transformative: sometimes backdating the music to well before the original recordings, sometimes viewing his past selves with avuncular pride and amusement, sometimes staring into the abyss, sometimes tempering youthful spite with empathy.

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Or Maureen Dowd, who coined the phrase "Mean Girls" of the midterms (talking about the Tea Party sorority), saying that they have replaced "Hope with Spite and Cool with Cold".

Peter Robinson of NME called it a "twisted epic" and "an acidic, filthy little song teeming with spite and retribution, with Timbaland's pounding".

"Bad for Me" (Collective Sounds) is a tidal rush of teen spite, delivered with cheery plasticity: "This one's for the girls messing with the boys/Like he's a melody and she's background noise".

After a spite check with 34... Bf2 and 35 Kh1, Shabalov gave up.

Never has a sport seemed so fiercely determined to spite itself, with factions holding onto power rather than galvanizing the industry.

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