Sentence examples for taste against from inspiring English sources

For his part, Repton saw himself as a defender of English taste against barbarous or repressed foreigners.

When the film opens, Suzanne is trying to redo the apartment to her taste, against the vigorous protests of the family's longtime maid, Germaine (Michèle Gleizer).

Djokovic was selectively aggressive in his brilliant victory over Nadal in the semifinals, and then, despite losing a lead and momentum, he stuck to his acquired taste against Gaël Monfils of France in the final.

Better to take the L train the three stops into Brooklyn and enjoy the benefits of Kings County real estate: a large high-ceilinged room with warm incandescent lighting over wooden floors and soft-hued marble, the scent of the wood oven and the taste, against a cold Peroni, of transcendent pizza.

From smartphones whose predictive-text algorithms auto-correct the originality out of our language ("the more helpful our phones get, the harder it is to be ourselves") to "super-automatic" espresso machines that sidestep the nuanced maneuvers of the human barista, technology militates against Ford Madox Ford's "personal note," Nietzsche's "single taste": against selfhood itself.

This will facilitate better reviewer/buyer understanding (my biggest personal complaint about reviews is that I can't judge the reviewers taste against my own) and keep reviewers more honest because their real social graph is connected to the books they choose to keep/curate.

Whatever it is, events are in high demand and presenters respond, catering to all tastes against all odds.

It isn't a question of classical tastes against pop; it's a question of small forms heard in motion against large forms heard with solemn intent.

We tasted our 2002 in 2006 and it still showed what a marvelous summer that had been for berries when tasted against the 2003.

NOT many years ago, California's sparkling wines were predictably heavy and overly fruity, almost clumsy tasted against comparably priced Champagnes.

But now, in an even more surprising turn of events, another American wine region has performed far better than expected in a blind tasting against the finest French châteaus.