How To Use Brickbat In A Sentence
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Use the comments function to throw bouquets and brickbats, if you feel like it.
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Fittingly, this book provides a store of fascinating insights for those who love him, and a supply of brickbats for those who don't.
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Others hurled brickbats supplied to them by boys who had mounted a wall.
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And by the fourth issue of Oz the plaudits were beginning to outnumber the brickbats.
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I do not feel any dereliction of duty but do feel that your brickbat is a duffer.
Dale Strategy Pays Off: Yorkie Socialists Humbled
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She wore outfits of bright green, and hurled arguments about like brickbats.
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After all the bouquets must come the brickbats.
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Perhaps, it could well be the reason why bouquets as well as brickbats are flung with such fierce passion.
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‘We have learnt to live with the bouquets and brickbats, which we realise to be part of our occupational hazard’, he adds.
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You're not owed anything but, at BEST, the neglect of a postliterate culture, and at worst the sort of calumny and brickbats otherwise reserved for child molestors and the people who hang their toilet paper in the incorrect underhand manner.
Nick Mamatas' Journal
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Herehence we sailed to a place called Arica; and, being entered the port, we found there three small barks, which we rifled, and found in one of them fifty-seven wedges of silver, each of them weighing about 20 lb. weight, and every of these wedges were of the fashion and bigness of a brickbat.
Sir Francis Drake’s Famous Voyage Round the World
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I'm always happy to hear from readers, whether they're delivering brickbats, bouquets or news tip-offs.
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You see what a vile little backstabbing ratfink Willard Mitt Romney really is...the French kindly help him to avoid an early death in the Mekong Delta and how does he repay them but with catcalls and brickbats.
The Chimes at Midnight
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As described spot-on by Timothy Garton Ash in The Guardian newspaper, "In France, genocide has become a political brickbat," Jan. 18: ... a tragedy which should be the subject for grave commemoration and free historical debate, calmly testing even wayward hypotheses against the evidence, is reduced to an instrument of political manipulation, a politician's brickbat.
Yavuz Baydar: Paris's Folly
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Your Letters: Gulf Recovery; Immigration And Healthcare
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The word has a sexual connotation -- which, by the by -- the Tea Party movement embraced for itself before it became used as a brickbat against them.
Washington Times Compares 'Tea-Bagger' To N-Word
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As an album, it's slightly better than the kneejerk brickbats would have you believe.
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In my mind's eye were the dirty yelling faces, the shaken fists, the hail of clods and brickbats that had knocked the Provost's hat off, the Peninsular veteran sergeant bawling to the wavering militia to hold their line, the snarling obscenities as the mob gave back sullenly before the bayonets, your correspondent near to soiling his fine Cherrypicker "breeks" with fear … and this glowering inquisitor with his rasping voice and peeler's eyes remembered it, too.
Flashman and the angel of the lord
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His career has suffered and he has received many brickbats and few bouquets.
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Since then, Democrats have done their best to turn this moment into a redux of the Lowden "chicken" flap -- a brickbat that they can use to hit Kasich with again and again.
Ohio's John Kasich Continues GOP's Year-Long Chicken Problem
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Government servants normally receive only brickbats and on rare occasions their services are acknowledged with a bouquet.
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His father was a brawling shipyard-pipe fitter, “built like a Birmingham brickbat, but lacking all the wit and modesty God gave a cobblestone.”
In The Shadow of The Cypress
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The company will have to do much better than this, if it is to avoid brickbats and lawsuits in the future.
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Gongs and brickbats: some parts of the park are a strange mix of super-high-tech rides and rather tawdry fairground stalls, complete with hustling barkers.
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The Maloney campaign plans to use Ms. Saujani's financial experience as a brickbat, aiming to take advantage of the anti-Wall Street climate.
Upstarts Aim to Unseat Upper East Side Fixture
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The Civic Trust will submit its "Southbank Torrens" plan to the State Government and Adelaide City Council after launching the plan at its annual Brickbats and Bouquets awards for urban development yesterday.
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The plan has drawn both brickbats and praise.
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It was the subject of appreciation and brickbats; of Letters to the Editor and newspaper cartoons.
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So it was surprising to hear the Sky News presenter had taken critical brickbats about her debut bonkbuster, First Ladies, to heart.
Media Monkey's Diary
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Each side in the dispute has been throwing brickbats at the other.
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The park was a chaos of frenzied movement, bodies launching over the fence, brickbats and clubs swinging.
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To swell into the hammer-swinging hardhat who loomed in the parlor sipping vodka and orange juice, hurling brickbat words and scraps of heart shrapnel at my mother, sister and me.
1997: What I Wanted
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While dingbats throw brickbats, he continues his reporting on the memo in the senate.
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Doug Muzzio , a professor of public affairs at Baruch College, praised Mr. Stringer's report on the substance but also characterized it as a political brickbat.
Speaker Grants Targeted
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In my mind's eye were the dirty yelling faces, the shaken fists, the hail of clods and brickbats that had knocked the Provost's hat off, the Peninsular veteran sergeant bawling to the wavering militia to hold their line, the snarling obscenities as the mob gave back sullenly before the bayonets, your correspondent near to soiling his fine Cherrypicker "breeks" with fear ... and this glowering inquisitor with his rasping voice and peeler's eyes remembered it, too.
THE NUMBERS
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The president has received many brickbats in the press recently.
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There's nothing - absolutely nothing - that the pugnacious little Dubliner likes better than standing centre stage, dodging the brickbats.
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We'd nip at the opposing forces heels, dodging their boots and fists, not to mention brickbats and clubs.
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The Volokh Conspiracy » Questions About the Solomon Amendment Ruling:
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Most important of all - and hardest - is not taking feedback personally: not only the brickbats, but the bouquets too.
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In this case, the Dems are hoping that calling for more regulation will give them a twofer: they brickbat the GOP while keeping their donors happy.