Sentence examples for told badly from inspiring English sources

It takes seriously Bertolt Brecht's suggestion that "if one understands a story, it's just that it has been told badly".

It also protects against cancer, telling badly damaged cells to commit suicide.

Truth be told: I badly wanted to buy a Prius.

We're told how badly off we are, how we need austerity and cutting local services and Brussels don't do much for the man on the street".

Before Moonves met with Heyward in Los Angeles, Moonves told me, "Badly as our evening news is doing, it's still watched by seven to eight million people a night.

A former Bush Administration official described a recent meeting between Rumsfeld and four-star generals and admirals at a military commanders' conference, on a base outside Washington, that, he was told, went badly.

Anyway, if you ask a question of genuine importance you'll only be told how badly the other lot are doing, and that you'll have a lot less money to spend if they get into power.

Thompson describes one incidenet when Pat scored 25 points in a game, went to see his father afterward expecting congratulations and instead was told how badly he played before being shoved to the wall.

The Muslim world, I told him, badly needed an authoritative voice and at the moment there was none.

The results of it – climate change, mass extinction, factory farming – should be enough to make us wonder if this story is badly constructed, badly told, or just plain wrong.

He tells how badly Seymour dressed, & ends by describing how he played games.