Sentence examples for would better have from inspiring English sources

First, the government continually raided it for money that would better have been reinvested during the 1990s, around £1m per day was siphoned off.

(Though maybe Rich's sense of justice would better have been slaked by a spectacle that showed Zuckerberg subjected to some greater extrajudicial comeuppance).

Some might consider that this book would better have been titled "Revenge of Some People With a Tiny Bit of Pequot or Other Indian Blood".

When his colleague Allan Bloom made a splash with "The Closing of the American Mind," Mr. Shils said that this muddled, poorly argued tract would better have been called "The Closing of an American Mind".

Though he was friendly with the New Wave directors, he derided their cinephilic passion; he thought that movies themselves didn't deserve these filmmakers' intellectual attention and aesthetic devotion, which would better have been devoted to the actual ideas and concerns that formed the subject of their own movies.

Only a little less hard to fathom is the transition from Aura Rosenberg's 1989 rocks with pornographic photographs applied to them (which would better have been left unearthed) to her photographic glimpse of a pantry based on a text by Walter Benjamin.

"And we'd better have some polish.

He'd better have a bodyguard".

"You'd better have something in mind".

And you'd better have excellent coaching".

You'd better have a good sense of humor.