Sentence examples for were decried for from inspiring English sources

In western Washington, they were decried for being too stringent.

Shows like "The Bold and the Beautiful" were decried for licentious plots dependent on bed-hopping.

I've been decried for a heinous act.

The launch of Britain's national electricity grid in 1933 was decried for desecrating the landscape.

It caused a scandal in the media, where he was decried for fighting with his team-mates.

A world in which we're having this conversation, a world in which the suicide bomber is a political force, a world in which a President is decried for trying to institute a health plan that will help millions of poor people, a world in which the Pope suggests that condom use encourages the spread of AIDS — that's "surreal" as it is.

But because the snow had been decried for everything it was not, it was hard at first to enjoy it for what it was: not a "weather event," or a storm with an impressive-sounding name--just a nice little snowfall.

(Exceptions: Terrorist content spreading via online platforms has been decried for some years, with government ministers more than happy to make platforms and technologies their scapegoat and even toughen laws; more recently hate speech on online platforms has also become a major political target for governments in Europe).

Strickland's film is a piece full of cinematic echoes – from Buñuel's Belle du Jour (1967), through Claude Chabrol's Les Biches (1968), Just Jaeckin's Emmanuelle (1974), and Lynch's Blue Velvet (1986), to name but a few – but in particular it recalls Kubrick's final, hugely undervalued work Eyes Wide Shut (1999), a film that was decried for not being as sexy as it promised.

Bukowski has been decried for the obvious sexism and subtle classism in his work, so we should take all the grains of salt necessary to listen to his thoughts on creativity.

The Boston Red Sox will lead an effort to change the name of a street near their stadium named after a former team owner who has been decried for years as a racist, current owner John W. Henry told The Boston Herald on Thursday.