Sentence examples for would belittle from inspiring English sources

It would belittle the film to call it exquisite; better to use the proper Romantic term and say that, in Bright Star, Campion really achieves the sublime.

Basically he felt for them a certain respect, but when he was drunk he would belittle their powers and achievements in strong and pungent language.

Likewise, Pope wrote, a poet such as Richard Blackmore would belittle the ocean with the pedestrian image of housework: "The ocean, joyed to see the tempest fled, / New lays his waves, and smooths his ruffled bed".

Hearts might have felt that their powerful resilience - a feature of their commanding start to the season - would belittle the best of Hibs, but the visitors also lacked fluency in attack.

Or maybe that they would belittle me and my experience.

To say it's one thing or the other, I think would belittle either one.

Imagine that there was someone who'd belittled Obama, lied about him, and tried to thwart his most high-stakes aspirations.

Some argued that to speak up would only belittle the degree.

We wouldn't belittle the seriousness of other forms of bigotry, or seek to deflect from it.

I was just like, I'm not doing this anymore," she said, adding that she would often belittle friends and family members over their religious beliefs.

It would not belittle Swindon's football of recent times to suggest that a large proportion of the entertainment over the past two seasons has emanated from their dugout.