Sentence examples for with insult from inspiring English sources

Or that "even a look" that threatens a beautiful young queen with "insult" should be "avenged"?

Sarah meant this tough-love speech compassionately, I could see, but Amber's face flushed with insult, then hardened.

I was my own worst coach – trying to motivate myself with insult and abuse rather than empowerment.

I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult.

He leapt at an offer to join the Royal Society of Literature, giving his qualifications as "brains and a baronetcy", though the slimy Lytton Strachey (delighted to repay hospitality with insult) thought that all the Sitwells had feathers where brains should be.

"You make me feel like Edmund Burke when you speak of her that way," and he cited Burke's famous lines on Marie Antoinette, "I'd think 10,000 swords must leap from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult".

Outside they were met with insults and death threats.

Then there was passion and excitement, but along with insults.

They do it with insults, imputing personal awfulness.

"America tried to kill me as a writer, with indifference, with insults," she wrote.

We have to put up with insults, but we don't have to tolerate threats.