How To Use Detractor In A Sentence

There's also a notable kitsch factor about the place -- the trashy menu, the lowbrow drink selection (Mad Dog and brands of beer you swore you'd never drink again), the neon band-logo signage and the retro tuneage -- that has prompted some detractors to grumble that the brashness is a little Westword | Complete Issue
That sort of warm repartee - delivered, as always, with a hearty guffaw - is one of the things Beazley detractors are suspicious about.
Because if I'm going to fly in the face of possible detractors I'd prefer to do it with pretty hair.
La gente que se siente afectada por no tener el ultimo chichito tecnologico o pagarlo un poco más, solo piensan en su hedonismo y no en el país, que sí necesita afianzar su industria, como la supo tener y que necesita dar trabajo a los argentinos, en lugar de darle trabajo a los obreros de otras latitudes; es muy mezquina la actitud de los detractores a esta idea. Global Voices in English » Argentina: Proposal to Increase Taxes on Some Technology Products
On the other side of the debate is Ed Dwight, a long-term detractor. MLK Jr. memorial confronts controversy

The organization of an army of workers and peasants also seemed very difficult to a people who had been called anarchic and without sense of order by their detractors. RURAL TEACHER GRADUATES
They are often criticized for producing "poverty porn" for Western audiences; their detractors call their - oeuvre the "cinema of squalor" — a label Philippine critic Lito Zulueta decries as unfair. Daring Filipinos Not To Look Away
As the barking of a dog, I securely contemn those malicious and scurrile obloquies, flouts, calumnies of railers and detractors; I scorn the rest. Anatomy of Melancholy
Both had an undeserved reputation for pretension and a sharp sense of humour that went over the heads of many of their detractors.
I pity such detractors, because if their spirits were not massively moved by the tragedy of a great hero expiring on the battlefield, they must be blocks of stones.
When he gets a good result, he sometimes wants to react and say, ‘there you are’ to his detractors, but equally a bad result can make him tetchy.
Time and again, his detractors predicted that he would cancel elections and referendums.
Of course, both films (Miami Vice and Spartan) are labelled as 'glum' by their detractors. Filmstalker Review: Miami Vice
To his detractors, Guston symbolized the regression of American culture, its surrender of serious painterly values to the vulgar sirens of mass culture.
He was a carpenter after all, and I am told that carpenters in those days chopped their own trees and milled the wood by hand. and he was semitic. and he was called a glutton and a drunkard by his detractors, so maybe he had a belly and a red nose? Philocrites: Christmas loot report.
The second detractor is an absence of respect for your opponent or opposition within the discussion.
Being in a beauty pageant has always appeared to be about good looks and I used to be a detractor but I've learnt that you need to back up the beauty with brains.
A certain partner, competitor, or detractor is due to be unpredictable and challenging.
Even though there was a risk that some detractors might use this verse as proof that there are a pantheon of gods rather than one, God deemed this principle so important that it's worth the risk.
After all, fans and detractors are equally anonymous on the internet.
As one of the few human beings to have heard "City of Glass" performed live, I can tell you that the music's supporters and detractors are both correct: It's quite the damndest thing you ever heard. The Jazz Scene: Birthdays and Mermaids
So destructive was Vabaza that detractors doubted Shabani's boxing ability and called on Vabaza to prove himself against a more formidable fighter.
Their detractors were few along their short trek down Main Street to the MP's office.
André Lemaire, the Sorbonne epigrapher, continues to strongly defend the authenticity of the inscription and has offered detailed responses to the ossuary detractors. The Jesus Dynasty
To his detractors, Gideon was dangerous—a pie-in-the-sky slave to political correctness who thought the enemies of Western civilization could be jawboned into holding hands and singing “Kumbaya.” Gideon’s war
It's not just that ESPN, whose spokesman Mike Soltys confirmed Sunday that the network would hire Millen for NFL analysis and college games, will get somebody who'll create a buzz — including from his detractors, who won't be able to stop themselves from rubbernecking. Millen doesn't deserve banishment from football broadcast lineup
My detractors never acknowledge that their resentment comes from a place of their own inadequacy.
He warily gazed around at his detractors, fully aware that any slim camaraderie they shared was likely to smolder as well.
The only detractor is the metal detector in the lobby. Federal bookstore rebrands itself for policy wonks in and out of Beltway
As the most visible and voluble owner in the National Football League, Jones has more than his share of detractors.
Likewise, heliocentricity, while accepted by all but a tiny minority of astronomers and cosmologists, still has its detractors.
His decision to accept the premiership was viewed by his detractors as acknowledgement that a national cabinet post was not in the offing for him.
While the situation looks positive for cannabis activists, there are detractors.
Detractors say skeuomorphs represent the triumph of familiarity over function.
As a final blow to her detractors, Hatshepsut ordered the creation of two of the largest most beautiful rose granite obelisks the world had ever seen and presented them as gifts to the temple of Amen-Ra. King/Pharaoh Hatshepsut, An Awesome Lady Ruler
When discussing how ‘generous’ the police pension is, what detractors often overlook is that it is not a ‘free’, non-contributory pension, like say, the forces. We Are So Unpopular That Everyone Wants To Join SHOCK! « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
Detractors have questioned the company's commitment to Scotland and some suggest that its image may be pulled downmarket in the same way as rival Burberry in the UK.
Never mind, he'll have silenced a few detractors with this assured performance.
His detractors claim that his fierce temper makes him unsuitable for party leadership.
Hobbs, who left school at 16 without a qualification to his name, defied his detractors by swotting up on what makes a successful health club.
Many former celebrants of the music have become detractors in the face of its hypercommercialization and transracial acceptance.
Their steep decline has given grim satisfaction to their legions of detractors.
Detractors on the environmental front have argued that mass-motorization in India is the worst thing that could happen as far as global warming is concerned, but India is going to motorize regardless. Matthew DeBord: Tata Shall Lead Us
John Locke is both a supporter and detractor from the theory of Libertarianism.
His detractors claim that his fierce temper makes him unsuitable for party leadership.
Hateful comments from detractors have not led to her career suffering. The Sun
Recent moves in Brighton, for instance, to allow the use of Mx as a title, have detractors as well as supporters within the trans community
Cooper also feels Ferguson's success has sparked a sharp increase in his detractors.
So far he owes his survival to an extraordinarily thick political hide, which none of his detractors had previously credited him for.
Of course, detractors and critics emerged instantaneously out of the woodwork.
His detractors may question whether he has any of the above-mentioned qualities.
Certainly, while praise has run far and wide, the film has had its detractors.
Among my most spirited and articulate detractors is a group of adults with autism who belong to a movement that refers to itself as the "neurodiversity" community. David Kirby: There is No Autism Epidemic
The ulterior motive of this salvo seemed to be a two-fingered assault on United's recent detractors.
Interestingly, Rick had not decimated his vile detractors and signified that he was a saint.
What do the Bush detractors and the America knockers say now?
Frank Hadden has certainly had his detractors down the years, but even his most stringent caviller would have to admit that this is a man who has served his time.
Taking Gnosis to task casts the detractor as an unreasoning, narrow-minded brute, steeped in dogma and conversely, casts the Gnostic as an unharmful, gentle soul who believes in the fusion of all religion and would simply like to be allowed to get on with his own pursuit of spiritual ascendancy without coming under fire, a view quite appealing to a libertarian, for example. [gnosis] gnosticism, gnostics
Can he indeed ‘buy’ more hardware for the already overstuffed trophy case, as his detractors and fellow owners grumble?
His snively detractors that call him a racist or a liar in order to discredit him are racists and liars them selves. Matthew Yglesias » What Else Is New?
Oil, and all that it means to us at this time, has a great deal to do with the number one detractor from the business environment of the moment, and that is automobile sales. Recession, Inflation and Energy
The data are not without problems and detractors, but there is a considerable willingness to use the statistics.
Even its detractors, one of whom called the book "mawkish" and poorly written, conceded the book has had an enormous influence, and it did so by virtue of its sincerity. Politics Daily
Detractors, even within his fold, tell you Nitish is paying a price for turning "unapproachable" but the man himself is persuaded of the virtues of the new order. The Telegraph - Calcutta (Kolkata) - Frontpage
Detractors claim the building will be ugly and impractical.
‘Music is important for me,’ she says, probably dumbfounding her detractors in the process.
To his detractors - mainly in the media, military and royalist elites - those same qualities make him a boorish, dangerous rabble-rouser. Times, Sunday Times
Every detractor, accuser, finger-pointer, critic, opponent, enemy, investigator was faced down and confronted by a politician who seemed to be made of pure granite.
Ms. Cordova provided a portion of her communications with Mr. Weiner to The Times, in which they messaged back and forth about the online detractors and their tactics.
The use of naming conventions is a programming technique which has many users, but also many detractors.
His decision to accept the premiership was viewed by his detractors as acknowledgement that a national cabinet post was not in the offing for him.
Its detractors found it philistine, and indeed there are few mentions in the novel of any intellectual pursuits.
Both had their critics, but none of their detractors would doubt their altruism and social commitment.
But her detractors are wrong in demanding that she have both an artist's vision and a prophet's precognition.
The campaign would be held up by its supporters as a “model of counterguerrilla warfare” and by its detractors as one of the most harsh and cruel campaigns in American history. Between War and Peace
Although the principle has its detractors – it has been called a trite and circular argument – its importance in the development of ecology can not be overstated for at least two reasons. Competitive exclusion principle
She apparently has made mincemeat of more than her share of doomsayers and detractors.
From this, we can say that there are other values that can potentially override democracy in creating institutions for a just government — one of which, I would argue, is the value of discussion, whereby no policy is made without all interested parties saying their peace, and where those that govern are forced to make at least some justification to their detractors. Matthew Yglesias » A Flawed Stimulus is Better than No Stimulus
He's a true Hollywood maverick (he also turned down a Rhodes Scholarship), who has attracted equal numbers of detractors and celebrators.
Today, of course, Carew is the most famous of former Twins and, if the sportswriters are to be believed, also one of Calvin Griffith's most vehement detractors. The Last of the Pure Baseball Men
Every public project has its detractors, and the air fills to the sound of axes grinding every time Holyrood is mentioned.
La gente que se siente afectada por no tener el ultimo chichito tecnologico o pagarlo un poco más, solo piensan en su hedonismo y no en el país, que sí necesita afianzar su industria, como la supo tener y que necesita dar trabajo a los argentinos, en lugar de darle trabajo a los obreros de otras latitudes; es muy mezquina la actitud de los detractores a esta idea. Global Voices in English » Argentina: Proposal to Increase Taxes on Some Technology Products
Ms. Cordova provided a portion of her communications with Mr. Weiner to The Times, in which they messaged back and forth about the online detractors and their tactics.
In a freewheeling chat at Reliance Digitial Time Out on Saturday, Mr. Bhargava recalled the growth of the company from a mere blip on the industry screen to the automotive giant that it has evolved to become, succeeding against odds, babudom and detractors, revolutionizing the automotive sector in India and sitting on a cash pile of around Rs. 6000 crores. ReadABlog.com New Blogs and RSS Feeds
Clearly, there is a diametric difference of opinion as to whether the handling of the BTC sale conformed to the law, with the Government and the would-be buyers insisting that it did, and their detractors insisting that it did not.
Something about this war is eating Bush's detractors alive, something unquantifiable with conventional weights and measures.
Both a study in philology and a history of ideas, The American Language continued in the tradition of Webster and Whitman to defend American English against its detractors.
Detractors claim the building will be ugly and impractical.
What really earns the rancour of the project's detractors though is the motivation behind it.
Detractors raise an eyebrow even at that rating, while fans claim it is the apogee of shabby chic and effortless elegance.
Or, detractors will suggest, the finished product feels too stagy and hasn't managed to pull itself away successfully from the proscenium.
For the media and a great many of my detractors, this is a game where trafficking in stores about my shizzle in Presidential Suites boosts web hits and magazine sales. What he really said (February Challenge)
The scheme is better than its detractors suggest.
However, what his detractors always ignore is that Chris Read, the superior stumper but infinitely inferior batsman, was not infallible with gloves on.
Once again, the people proved all the skeptics, all the doubters, all the detractors, wrong, that democracy can work in this part of the world.
While his detractors were explaining that “the most striking and consistent endoscopic feature, lymphoid nodular hyperplasia in the terminal ileum, is not unusual in children,” Wakefield was trotting out what had become a standard response of vaccine denialists to accusations of unreliable or inaccurate data: He condemned his critics for caring more about their standing in the scientific community than about sick children. The Panic Virus
In the print world, it's safe to say, making sure that one's detractors are heard is much rarer.
Frank Hadden has certainly had his detractors down the years, but even his most stringent caviller would have to admit that this is a man who has served his time.
His snively detractors that call him a racist or a liar in order to discredit him. Matthew Yglesias » What Else Is New?
Mrs Ozal's detractors claim that her candidacy is an example of third-world dynastic ambitions in the Peron mode.
While proponents argue that voiceprints are analogous to fingerprints, detractors argue that, unlike fingerprints, voices can change due to illness, injury, or age, making voiceprints far less reliable.
Once again, the people proved all the skeptics, all the doubters, all the detractors, wrong, that democracy can work in this part of the world.
What fugitive, what almsman of any foreign state, can do so much harm as a detractor, a libeller, a scornful jester at home? Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions Together with Death's Duel
In her second appearance, on ‘the hither bank,’ the woman is ‘to all important’ a critique often directed at Marsden by her detractors and by Joyce's contemporaries.
His readers make my point by reading his unsupportable claim that leftists are somehow free of vitriol or rancor, then writing in and calling his detractors every name their imaginations can handle.
As undeniably praiseworthy as the performances were, detractors argued the film seemed contrived for shock value.
Hateful comments from detractors have not led to her career suffering. The Sun
The racing of horses therefore has a long and mostly honourable tradition, but the sport has always had its detractors.
Gaining in confidence as the day progressed, he looked like he could prove all his detractors wrong.
His detractors lead one to imagine Mr Carey to be the archetypal cigar-chewing hard man in a sheepskin coat.
His detractors have pointed at these disappointments as evidence of his shortcomings.
It was scapegoated just before Prohibition took hold of the United States, its detractors claimed it caused insanity, blindness and even death.
Detractors have called such features eco-bling but the new eco-homes will not be such an easy target. Times, Sunday Times
We can do as well as our detractors do: there is no magic in their success, nor inevitability in our humiliation.
The decision is met with widespread criticism in the States, with the detractors pointing to the relatively unserious nature of the injury and the recent deal the owners had made to syndicate the horse for breeding.
Fellow cryptanalyst Thomas Dyer was one of many who believed that Rochefort was targeted for showing up his detractors. A Stealth Attack on Enemy Secrets
His detractors claim that his fierce temper makes him unsuitable for party leadership.
I can almost see the 'bated breath' of the non-contributing, and quite frankly, flat-out lying detractors on this site waiting for Obama to make a significant mistake. CNN Poll: Obama approval under 50 percent
He loves to cite historical accounts of how she maintained her regal bearing to the end, how even her detractors reported that, on her ignoble cart ride to the guillotine, ‘she was never more of a queen.’
Bowhunting is fiercely controversial, with detractors denouncing it as barbaric. Times, Sunday Times
Your admirers and detractors alike have used these terms - an astute politician, shrewd, cunning - to characterise you.
His reputation stands high, but he is not without his detractors.
Last week's riff on how the coming ubiquity of wireless networks could lead to a new and better form of digital rights management brought out both supporters and detractors.
While detractors tend to focus on his heavy symbolism and soliloquies, there is nonetheless a more delicate strand to Bergman's work.
Her detractors gleefully held up her lack of articulateness in comparison to the flowing narrative of her prose.
Even some of the staunchest detractors of the idea now appear willing to at least reassess their stand.
The technique was hit and miss, and past-life experiences were rare, but detractors had insisted that previous regressions influenced the hypnotized by suggesting times and places.
According to the CPSC numbers, watching “murderball” as detractors deem it could be more dangerous than playing it, since bleachers cause eight times as many injuries as the game itself. FLY FISHING WITH DARTH VADER
Even the President's detractors admit that the decision was the right one.
Detractors parody this as shorthand for his occasional tendency towards simpleminded inanity. Times, Sunday Times
Or the happy-go-lucky, pie-eyed optimist who, um, seems to exist only in the minds of detractors who say "insufferably Spielbergian" without clarifying further? Up, George Lucas, the spirit of adventure, and the myth of the fallen angel
But if Lloyd-Jones has had his acolytes, he also has his detractors.
Niger Delta youths under the aegis of South-south Youths Leaders Forum have condemned what they called unwarranted attacks on political appointees from the region, saying that unless such attacks are stopped, they may start confronting such detractors. Thisday Online
But detractors say comforters are the gateway to overheating and unseemly bulkiness. Down With Comforters!
Several people - advocates and detractors alike - said rather oddly that in a hundred years time the dams will be obsolete, their machinery exhausted.
This points to a siege mentality as the Aberdeen chief executive is trying to suggest that his club are bound together by adversity and will see off detractors.

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