How To Use Animadversion In A Sentence

  • Derrida and Foucault's whole deconstructive enterprise might be seen as an exercise in animadversion on the Western cultural process of translation.
  • Cecilia’s modesty made her wish the dresses had been less expensive; she feared the countess of Torrington would think her presuming, and accuse her of attempting to outvie herself and her guests in the splendour of dress; she shrunk from the idea of incurring ridicule, and provoking animadversions on her birth and dependent state. Lovers and Friends; or, Modern Attachments
  • Of late, however, as the Protestant doctrines gained ground, he had found it convenient to live in close retirement, and to avoid, as much as possible, drawing upon himself observation or animadversion. The Abbot
  • The animadversion broke the long estrangement history among Mohammedanism, Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism, which made a short period of controversy in the Islam ideological history.
  • Com igitur et vos ipso modo ilios mores, modo alias leges, fueritis secuti, multaque vel erroribus cognitis, vel animadversione meliorum sint a vobis repudiata: quid est a nobis factum, contra sensum judiciumque commune, si majora et certiora delegimus? The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2)
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  • When a man accepts a public place, he ought to calculate that he will be subject to public animadversion and should act with magnanimity.
  • But, affecting as my own circumstances are, I cannot pass by, without animadversion, the reflection I need not repeat in words. Clarissa Harlowe
  • Like a performance artist, Keyes riled the crowd up, mixing animadversions on constitutional law with sudden, stentorian salvos against judges.
  • Reyberts, cut dead by the handsome Estelle, found themselves the objects of so much animadversion on the part of the adherents of the Moreaus that their position at Presles would not have been endurable without the thought of vengeance which had, so far, supported them. A Start in Life
  • One nationalist observer noted that Judge Jones ‘has given great disaffection… [and] has brought down severe animadversion on himself.’
  • That Charles the Fifth5 was crowned upon the day of his nativity, it being in his own power so to order it, makes no singular animadversion: but that he should also take King Francis6 prisoner upon that day, was an unexpected coincidence, which made the same remarkable. Letter to a Friend
  • The most contentious matter on which the moderates tended to side with Bowdoin and the radicals concerned Bernard's animadversions on crowd action.
  • In this article, the author focuses on the anti - feudalism consciousness, tragedy consciousness and animadversion consciousness.
  • The arrogance of the use of the term ignorance here, requires no animadversion; but to suppose the greatest master, then in existence, of the English language, not acquainted with the meaning of the word, when he asked to be informed of the meaning attached to it by the individual making use of it, gives us some insight into the true character of the teacher. The Life of Lord Byron
  • For centuries, women writers were sweepingly dismissed on the basis of gender, as in Nathaniel Hawthorne's notorious animadversion against the "damned mob of scribbling women" robbing him of the sales he felt he deserved. Sarah Churchwell praises Elaine Showalter's judicious study of American women authors
  • This ought not to be passed over without some animadversion; because this notion about the word "unregenerate" which many persons have previously formed, is no small cause why they think they must reject the opinion, which declares that this passage of The Works of James Arminius, Vol. 2
  • The pope and the king of France taught Edward II to dissolve the preceptories, to the number of twenty-three, belonging to the Templars; in 1410 the Commons petitioned for the confiscation of all church property; in 1414 the alien priories in England fell under the animadversion of the government; their property was handed over to the crown and they escaped only by the payment of heavy fines, by incorporation into English orders, and by partial confiscation of their land. The Age of the Reformation
  • He is no less acerbic when pondering under what extraordinary circumstances Trevor Sinclair came to be picked for the England football team, an animadversion with which all right-thinking fans concur.
  • I put them to mark the places which call for vengeance upon the vixen writer, or which require animadversion. Clarissa Harlowe
  • The steps for accelerating the Catholic emancipation passed without animadversion from the English Ministry; but the dismissal of Mr. Beresford, and his adherents, gave great of - fence to the Cabinet of London. Peerage of England, genealogical, biographical, and historical
  • As he felt the young fellow's eyes upon him he recalled the effusive piety of his conversation at Tyler Sudley's house, his animadversions on violin-playing and liquor-drinking, and Brother Peter Vickers's mild and merciful attitude toward sinners in those un-spiced sermons of his, that held out such affluence of hope to the repentant rather than to the self-righteous. The Moonshiners At Hoho-Hebee Falls 1895
  • Even his comparison of St. Ignatius to Cæsar, and Xavier to Alexander, passed without animadversion; it was tolerated as a flower of rhetoric. A Philosophical Dictionary
  • I have nonetheless some animadversions concerning the inclusion of some ‘responses’ in Professor Butler's collection and the omission of others.
  • Readers of my previous animadversions on electric cars will not be surprised to learn that I do not share Friedman's boosterism, which is based partly on interviews with two guys, Shai Agassi and Kevin Czinger, who are in the business of selling electric cars. Tom Friedman's electric car aid acid test
  • Such crimes would have deserved the animadversion of the magistrate; but in this promiscuous outrage, the innocent were confounded with the guilty, and Alexandria was impoverished by the loss of a wealthy and industrious colony.
  • As Madison wrote, a government which is 'elective, limited, and responsible' to the people requires 'a greater freedom of animadversion' than one not so structured.
  • I do not affect the word flirtation, but the thing itself is not half so criminal as one would think from the animadversions visited upon it. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 69, July, 1863
  • These discoveries provide sharp contrast to the vitriolic animadversions of Walsingham et al.
  • I am contented with my fortunes, spectator e longinquo, and love Neptunum procul a terra spectare furentem: he is ambitious, and not satisfied with his: but what [3944] gets he by it? to have all his life laid open, his reproaches seen: not one of a thousand but he hath done more worthy of dispraise and animadversion than commendation; no better means to help this than to be private. Anatomy of Melancholy
  • I know he read my column at least once because it so infuriated him, but did he read it again before he put forth his animadversions
  • The story of Jaddus would be entitled to our respect — it would be beyond the reach of animadversion — were even any shadow of it to be found in the sacred writings; but as they do not make the slightest mention of it, we are quite at liberty to see that it is ridiculous. A Philosophical Dictionary
  • If the work is so daring as to merit public animadversion, the magistrate summons the printer, who either stands mute or names the author.

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