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show due and full appreciation
The diners did the food and wine justice -
bring out fully or to advantage
This photograph does not do her justice
How To Use do justice In A Sentence
- This picture does not do justice to the attractiveness of all the boats and yachts that are anchored in this area.
- Nor can it effectively do justice in the individual case within the limits of its jurisdiction and to that extent vindicate the rule of law.
- For all its gingerbready charm, the American Airlines Theatre unlike London's 482-seat Duchess Theatre, where Ms. Aitken directed "Man and Boy" six years ago simply doesn't lend itself to the kind of concentrated intimacy needed to do justice to a small-cast, single-set play. Fraud in the Family
- But who shall do justice to the dinner, and describe the turkey, and chickens, and chicken pies, with all that endless variety of vegetables which the American soil and climate have contributed to the table, and which, without regard to the French doctrine of courses, were all piled together in jovial abundance upon the smoking board? Oldtown Folks
- I know you detest them; hate doesn't do justice to how you must feel, but you have to calm down.
- This postcard doesn't do justice to the wonderful scenery.
- It's hard to do justice to the succulence of the pears in light frangipane sponge, encased in triumphant, well-fired, crunchy pastry.
- On the other hand, I'm quite up for sans-serif body text on screen, thinking that such a low resolution doesn't do justice to serifs.
- She doesn't quote the great biblical injunction ‘to do justice but to love mercy’, but that is the general drift.
- No summary can do justice to this hilarious book—Kennan's wit never fails him, just as a companion from California never fails, no matter how catastrophic the Siberian winter turns, to claim that he has seen "worse storms in the Sierra Nevadas. Five Best: Larry McMurtry