Sentence examples for with umbrage from inspiring English sources

Alas, she has spent too little time talking about the issues, preferring instead to attack her opponent, or respond with umbrage to criticism.

Outrage at mispunctuation gets blended with complaints about bureaucratese and academese, which are conflated with disgust at politicians' evasions, which in turn are merged with umbrage at an endless list of solecisms, blunders, and peeves.

(The Chinese embassy has reacted with umbrage — "Any attempts to defame China with fabricated allegations will prove futile," a spokesman said — though I'm not clear if the defamation is the suggestion of espionage or the suggestion of such a ham-fisted attempt at it).

Cable modems and listservs have been crackling with umbrage since Mr. Anderson came out of nowhere -- he was hardly on anyone's short list save that of the editorial director of Condé Nast, James Truman -- and he has been under quiet attack from the digerati ever since he took over in June.

When Rank discovers, decades later, that his juvenile malfeasance has been misappropriated for a novel by his bookish college buddy, Adam, Rank goes after him with "enthusiastic umbrage," pummeling his e-mail in-box with a barrage of bumptious letters seeking to correct the record.

It's encouraging that the internet followed and empathized with their umbrage, and that traditional media paid attention to their causes.

There is a parallel here with the umbrage that many conservatives take when anyone short of a Klansman putting on a hood is called a racist.

"I would appreciate it if the other members would stay, instead of making a comment, quoting a paid lobbyist -- with great umbrage -- and then leaving".

Following his refusal to warm up while a substitute in City's Champions League game against Bayern Munich, Carlos Tevez fell out with the club, took umbrage with comments from Mancini and went absent without leave for three months, leading the manager to declare him "out" of the club.

Reviews for "August: Osage County" were mixed after the film debuted at the Toronto International Film Festival on Monday night, with some critics taking specific umbrage with the film's ending.

They addressed it with the same blend of solemnity and umbrage with which they usually assess an unorthodox draft pick or a flubbed sacrifice bunt.