Sentence examples for spurned of from inspiring English sources
In the process, he resuscitates that most spurned of Hollywood genres, the woman's film.
It was his final, too little, too late "You are not the boss of me" spurning of Dick Cheney.
When this turned out to not be true, coverage shifted to her so-called "spurning" of her pursuer's advances.
Henry James dismissed Bathsheba as 'vulgar and coarse', and spurned Tess of the d'Urbervilles with the toe of his boot.
She wasn't spoofing her tabloid image as the spurned wife of Brad Pitt.
Finally, there's the already spurned option of going it alone.
Far from feeling put-upon, voters spurned offers of lower taxes from the Conservatives at consecutive elections.
Walter Salles's adaptation of Kerouac's beat classic was a directionless damp squib – but Dunst impressed as Camille, spurned wife of Garrett Hedlund's Dean Moriarty.
To achieve its conservative ends, the Roberts Court has spurned decades of precedents.
Why I loved it: We East Coast kids spurned some of the early Beach Boys hits as generic ripoffs, but this song was something else again.
Cautious of spurning one of its few major revenue sources, the government has a dual interest in ignoring worker demands for fire safety and better wages.
