How To Use Hector In A Sentence

  • In the poem, Hector's body, attached to Achilles' chariot and dragged around Troy, cannot be mutilated because Aphrodite has anointed it with ambrosia.
  • The Hector's story may have a happy ending, as the establishment of entanglement.
  • _The comedy of Wilmot successful: The wounded stranger seen at a distance: Oratory abandoned with regret: The dangers that attend being honest: A new invitation from Hector: A journey deferred by an arrest, and another accidental sight of the stranger_ The Adventures of Hugh Trevor
  • But the guy continued hectoring me to watch more episodes so that I might become enlightened and see the error of my ways.
  • Threatened plant species currently being protected or monitored include the endemic saltpan cresses (Lepidium kirkii and L. sisymbrioides matau), the upland shrub Hebe cupressoides, the endangered Hector's tree daisy (Olearia hectorii), native Peraxilla mistletoes, and the epiphytic forest shrub Tupeia antarctica. Cantebury-Otago tussock grasslands
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  • Hector grabbed my hand and made a dash for the entrance, the lights from the marquee illuminating his jubilant face.
  • Hector, being taken ill, consulted on his case some of the witches or soothsayers, to whom this family appears to have been partial.
  • I suppose you'll hector me until I phone him.
  • Bought by the club, rather than Roberto Mancini, Johnson was at first hectored from the touchline by City's manager, who doubtless knew little about him, but has impressed his leader with his dash and daring at outside-right. Ten to watch – the World Cup contenders out to convince Fabio Capello
  • In pt ii. of the _Niebelungen Lied_, he sees his sons and liegemen struck down without making the least effort to save them, and is as unlike the Attila of history as a "hector" is to the noble Trojan "the protector of mankind. Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook
  • Psychopharmacology has discovered the truth in Scott's wild guess, but Zelda is not the only hectored patient who might have been cured had she been born later.
  • USA should restore ties, and try to address the moderates in Iran without assuming the civilisationally-superior tone of hectoring or blustering. proudlyleft New Statesman
  • In this situation, the solution to full trains is apparently to hector people not to get on; the solution to full platforms is to stop people getting down to the platform; the solution to crowded stations is to close the station.
  • He is superhigh. He hogged more of the weed than Hector and I and he is hunched like a pile of trash against the base of the altar.
  • Last week, on Wednesday, April 28, researcher Hector Picco remarked that he had seen a small white light coming from the sierras and vanishing into the rocky floor of an empty piece of property adjacent to his home.
  • Hector thought she looked blowsy, her primness hoisted for the Missionaries squirreled away again.
  • Why do you allow yourself to be hectored by him?
  • And in these days Annie had at length finished her fair copy of Hector's last book, writing it out in her own lovelily legible hand -- not such as ladies in general count legible, because they can easily read it themselves; she could do better than that, she could write so that others could not fail to read. Far Above Rubies
  • It is a sweet and pretty countenance that can become contorted into a Munchian shriek, a child's importunate obstinacy, a beleaguered housewife's exasperation, a hectoring soldier's grimace, or anything else.
  • Almost before Lee knew it, Hector, the third rider, was out, there was a pat on Lee's shoulder, and he was climbing the rails to lower himself onto a saddle bronc, smoothing a new pigskin glove over his right hand and gripping the braided handle of the hornless saddle. The Body Ricardo
  • The reason I bring the story of Hectors bravery to the fore is because I have none, nil, not a drop.
  • Helen and Paris go to help unarm Hector after his day's combat.
  • Hector said it was a jolly good idea and very brave of her and he would be lurking in the corridor in case there was any trouble.
  • The students, far from being traumatized by the act (which is described as appreciative rather than "investigatory") seem to take it in stride as a personal eccentricity of Hector's. PegasusNews.com stories
  • Athene, as they say, took the form of Deiphobus for the sake of Hector, and the unshorn Phoebus for the sake of Admetus fed the trailing-footed oxen, and the spouse us came as an old woman to Semele. Is There Evidence For Mythicism?
  • And for this reason she hectored him knowing how difficult and balky he tended to be, especially towards her.
  • dissociable," with tongues which he cannot utter, or cannot understand; that, like the wife of Hector, it proclaims in accents scarcely to be resisted, that there is a tower assigned to everyman, where it is his first duty to plant himself for the sake of his own, and in the defence of which he will find perhaps enough to do, without extending his care to the whole circuit of the city walls. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 371, May 23, 1829
  • Hector was resting under the shade of a tree while the two old men sat across from him playing dominoes in matching guayaberas emblazoned with Mickey Mouse.
  • Hector and his stalwart Trojan army force the Greeks into a retreat.
  • Hell, we could just pick a few letters in “financial reform” and call it FNARF. hector says: Matthew Yglesias » Against “FinReg”
  • Andromache is the widow of the renowned Trojan hero Hector, fallen in battle.
  • On May 20, Netanyahu publicly lectured -- hectored really -- the American president and the previous day he released a press statement about what he "expects" from the American president. Sari Anabtawi: The Story of Munib Al-Masri
  • You can't believe how many young people dressed up as thistles or Proust hectored you in the streets.
  • Ken Loach's tale of two Irish brothers caught up in the IRA during the 1920s is hectoringly anti-English, but a powerful, poignant film none the less. Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph
  • As for Hector and his griefs, prithee hear how stands the case; he is dead and gone, but still his fame remains as bravest of the brave, and this was The Trojan Women
  • However, the writing is hectoringly didactic and dramatically emaciated. Times, Sunday Times
  • Hector shut his eyes, to see his inner world, a blaze of swirling pearly colours.
  • There's even hope for losers, four of whom hectored him to the point where he let them participate for $450 each, far below Ronnie's cost.
  • 'Maybe you lose a steer and learn not to make somethings with your eyes at married men,' Mrs. Shimerda told her hectoringly. My Antonia
  • After the applause had died down, Hector prepared to speechify.
  • As someone who has hectored Hillary a lot on this site (seen by many of you as a Hillary disliker but not a "hater" I hope), my hat is truly off to her today. Hillary Implores Her Supporters To Work "As Hard For Barack Obama As You Have For Me"
  • My sister Nancy is out - its just Hector and I chinwagging.
  • Hector, a loving husband and somewhat hapless schmoe, is relaxing in his yard when he spies through his binoculars a young woman removing her top in the woods. MOVIE REVIEW: Timecrimes Directed by Nacho Vigalongo
  • Fair enough - if listening to him hectoring us about scarce resources and carbon emissions is what it takes to conserve the planet then it's a price worth paying.
  • Hector about a phoca, that is a sealgh, as you call it.” The Antiquary
  • It's an atmosphere rightly associated with college and university campuses, where a hectoringly intolerant political orthodoxy took over, in many cases, years ago. The Right Coast
  • But she was not too upset, for she knew it was a gesture of fondness and respect for Hector Quintero.
  • Like Paris handsome [34] and like Hector brave, but as pious as Aeneas; "a rich fellow enough," with blood hopelessly blue and morals spotlessly copy-bookish -- in other words, a Sir Charles A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800
  • Session) with an eye as fine and soft as the Thracian Rhodope's, or as threatening and commanding as that of Mars -- even a hectoring fiery thrasonic Hibernian Mars -- himself, without being able to tell whether it was a black or a blue one, or even a Green or a Yellow. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 104, April 22, 1893
  • Where is Hector to command the troll, change, to engage in carnal relations with a vicious predator? Matthew Yglesias » Climate Migration
  • At first Hector brandished his sword eyeing Achilles as a soaring eagle would a timid lamb. Peripheral Anthropomorphism and the Fall of Troy
  • They inform you, but never hectoringly or gloatingly. Times, Sunday Times
  • THE extraordinary bodily, as well as mental superiority which Wallace and Bruce possessed over their contemporaries, is thus recorded by Hector Boetius: – The Scottish Chiefs
  • She does now and then hector a little.
  • The best scene is Hector and Achilles in mortal combat.
  • Hector’s hectoring is a perfect argument for atheism. sd Says: Matthew Yglesias » More on Pro-Life Incrementalism
  • Experts from around the world advised ( "hectored" might be a better word) Woods that only by opening up could he hope for public forgiveness. Christian Science Monitor | All Stories
  • David Cameron has said he will not "hector" the Chinese over human rights despite pressure to condemn the jailing of China's Nobel Peace Prize winner. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
  • `Only a true philatelist could sympathize with Hector Giroux, eh? THE DUTCH BLUE ERROR
  • Train convinces Bishop, and later Hector and Stamps, that the boy should remain with them. Current Movie Reviews, Independent Movies - Film Threat
  • The domestic colloquies between Hector and his Andromache, the face-off between Hector and Achilles, and, above all, the nocturnal visit of Priam to the tent of Achilles gripped and touched the audience at the performance I attended.
  • It continually baffles me why anyone with such an obvious interest in weblog usability would continually hector their poor readers with the kind of interminable prose that you do.
  • In a loud, hectoring tone, Alan told us that he wasn't going to waste time discussing nonsense.
  • McGrath just chunters away like the worst kind of hectoring mother-in-law.
  • Yet that's just why, tested against everyday life as most people experience it, the bulk of all this intellectual hectoring is inhumane rubbish — contemptuous of desires that aren't necessarily as unworthy or manipulated as charged. Material Girl
  • Like a blustering, hectoring aunt at a family gathering, he won't be missed by most.
  • What's harder to accept, from an author for whom character has always been paramount, is the lack of dimensionality in both Hector and Sylvie, who manage to seem vaporous and wooden at the same time ... The Surrendered: Summary and book reviews of The Surrendered by Chang-rae Lee.
  • But I, and most right-thinking people, don't need the enjoyment of our lives intruded on by your constant, hectoring simper. Archive 2009-02-01
  • The most interesting characters were bit players Hector Elizondo and Sakina Jaffrey.
  • He is daily enraged by the hectoring of his parents and the dullness of his paper-shuffling job.
  • Alexander's early potential is seen in his ability to tame wild horses (like Hector in The Illyiad).
  • Hector shut his eyes, to see his inner world, a blaze of swirling pearly colours.
  • Irrfan Khan and Saurabh Shukla as the hectoring cops, and Mahesh Manjrekar as the brutal 'bhai', fit right in. Screen News
  • Not much happens in the opening episode until the last few minutes, but through Hector's eyes, we begin to see a dim outline of the old loyalties, new affinities, sibling rivalries, marital disharmonies, personal pressures and secrets in which he and his guests are enmeshed. TV review: The Slap; The Future State of Welfare; Panorama – Dale Farm: the Big Eviction
  • Hector suddenly turned to his former valet and grabbed his arm.
  • Hector and Rue laughed heartily and popped the cork on a bottle of champagne, letting it spill on the carpet.
  • Hector had expunged any reference to his health when issuing his blue copy.
  • When he had played till he was tired and went to sleep, he would lie in a bed, in the arms of his nurse, on a soft couch, knowing neither want nor care, whereas now that he has lost his father his lot will be full of hardship -- he, whom the Trojans name Astyanax, because you, O Hector, were the only defence of their gates and battlements. The Iliad
  • Hi . Are Hector Avila and Maricruz Delgado wedding today?
  • Lelord - the 57-year-old writer whose own smile exudes a kind of languorous wisdom - would never have been able to write his bestselling French novel, Hector and the Search for Happiness, at such a tender age. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
  • Could I run out to the fields and tell the boys fast enough for them to catch Hector before he reached town?
  • She also will visit the Hector Pieterson museum, named after a young boy who was killed in anti-apartheid protests in Soweto in 1976. US First Lady Meets Nelson Mandela in South Africa
  • the bloodless carcass of my Hector sold
  • I wonder: Speaking solely in terms of presentation and the notion of hectoring, lecturing and shrillness, do the same people who find Hillary off-putting also find Ron Paul so? "She seemed dogmatic, almost angry, like she was vicious..."
  • More plausible and quick-witted was a smooth-tongued operator who employed the alias ‘Ethelbert Louis Hector Alfred, Baron de Richemont’.
  • Hector and Lalo are shoeing a bay horse; Lalo's sheepdog naps between its legs.
  • ✒I wasn't really aware of Andy Gray until this week; there was a sort of hectoring know-all in the background of football games on Sky, but if I was actually interested in the result I'd turn the sound off and listen to Radio 5 Live, which is dry, droll and doesn't treat every foul as if it were the invasion of Poland. Simon Hoggart's week: Thinking aloud? Don't be an idiot
  • While most of them are careful to maintain a little patch of agnostic "to be sure" territory, hectoring heretics like PZ Myers get their jollies by stomping all over sacred ground in the hobnailed boots of rationality. Clay Farris Naff: How Science Can Solve the Puzzle of God
  • Why do you allow yourself to be hectored by him?
  • The students, far from being traumatized by the act (which is described as appreciative rather than "investigatory") seem to take it in stride as a personal eccentricity of Hector's. PegasusNews.com stories
  • For the Trojans, headed by Hector or some other of their chiefs, often came out from the city through the principal gate, called the Scæʹan Gate, which faced the Grecian camp, and fought the enemy in the open plain, on the bank of the celebrated river Simois. The Story of Troy
  • One can do a fair bit of damage energetically hectoring someone to speak them, but perhaps just as much damage by pretending they don't exist.
  • The first episode told the story – of, as even a fule will know through cultural osmosis, the fallout from a family barbecue that ends with a brattish three-year-old, whose parents refuse to discipline him, being slapped by someone else – from the host Hector's point of view. TV review: The Slap; The Future State of Welfare; Panorama – Dale Farm: the Big Eviction
  • `I haven't even seen the mail yet, but I suppose you'll hector me until we make the call. MURDER IN E MINOR
  • Hector, who had been gambolling about the porch, slunk in behind her, depressed by the angry voices.
  • Nor did it help to know that the Achaean who will capture her — Pyrrhos, destined to become ancestor to the kings of the Eperiote tribe of the Molossians and to be given a hero’s tomb at Delphi — would rip Hector’s child, Scamandrius (called Astyanax, “Lord of the City,” by the residents of Ilium), from his nurse’s breast and will fling the child from the high walls to his bloody death. Ilium
  • Yet his default setting on stage remains a kind of hectoringly personable whimsicality. Times, Sunday Times
  • In spite of serious differences, nations should approach their problems with the basic temper of peace and not in a threatening and hectoring mood.
  • Inside hang sheepskins, saddlebags, the goatskin that Hector and Lalo skinned yesterday to make chaps, a shopping bag reading I LOVE YOU.
  • Hector N well, ghibli is used to modify stories in their adaptations Howl's moving castle for example. Studio Ghibli’s Next Film a New Adaptation of The Borrowers | /Film
  • Achilles goes out to the wagon and takes two capes and a shirt for Hector's body, ordering his men to clean and anoint the body before Priam sees it.
  • The struggle here -- and elsewhere in Pinter's plays, or in THE PRISONER -- is in the undercurrents of dominance and submission of antipathic combat, in a gibberish that is unmistakeable as menacing, hectoring, shouting, frothing, spitting, pausing ... anger and disgust. Archive 2008-09-01
  • Rico was using the broom and dustpan and Hector followed behind slowly with the mop and bucket. Agape
  • Hector's, the lassies wi 'their shoon in their hands, were walkin' easier barefit and savin 'shoe leather, and a young Embro' leddy, wi 'a hooped skirt wi' the braidin 'like theek rope on a stack, and high-heeled shoon, looked disdainfu' at them. The McBrides A Romance of Arran
  • Here the old man, who had been watching with his little peery eyes, pulled the bulky Hector by the skirt, and whispered, “Do not vapour him the huff, it will not pass — let the trout play, he will rise to the hook presently.” The Fortunes of Nigel
  • He affirmed that he had performed a magical ceremony, termed tine egan, by which he evoked a fiend, from whom he extorted a confession that Conachar, now called Eachin, or Hector, MacIan, was the only man in the approaching combat between the two hostile clans who should come off without blood or blemish. The Fair Maid of Perth
  • Dr. Hector Vila, chairman of the Ambulatory Surgery Committee for the American Society of Anesthesiologists, said he administers the drug during office procedures such as urology, dentistry and gynecology. CNN.com
  • I have a vivid recollection of a World Bank staffer in 1992 hectoring the Minister of Agriculture of Albania, waggling her finger in his face.
  • ‘Watch myself sell my self,’ the line carolled over and over in Hectors mind.
  • Not so good Tar �is am a chaitheamh ag feicint ar chl�r �ontach Am� ar�ir agus Hector ag tabhairt cuairte ar an San Fenando Valley, �it a dh�antar an m�ad is m� scann�n porn i SAM shocraigh m� f�il amach conas mar a �ir�onn le Hector ar l�ne. One of these days… » 2003 » October » 17
  • Daniel enters, followed in quick succession by Simon, Karen, and Hector.
  • Hector had just finished unloading the van and its occupants into the surrounding desert.
  • Why can't you finish one thing before starting another?" demanded the Poet hectoringly. Defenders of Democracy; contributions from representative men and women of letters and other arts from our allies and our own country, edited by the Gift book committee of the Militia of Mercy
  • Hector swears by the forge that stithied Mars his helm, just as Hamlet himself alludes to Vulcan's stithy (III. ii. Shakespearean Tragedy Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth
  • She had a mental picture of Hector and her mother each arriving on her doorstep, the one importunate, the other irate. A MATTER OF CONSCIENCE
  • Hector, who had been gambolling about the porch, slunk in behind her, depressed by the angry voices.
  • They cut, foined, hewed, and thrust as if they had drawn their blades for the first time that day; and their inveteracy was mutual, for Torquil recognised the foul wizard who, as he supposed, had cast a spell over his child; and Henry saw before him the giant who, during the whole conflict, had interrupted the purpose for which alone he had joined the combatants — that of engaging in single combat with Hector. The Fair Maid of Perth
  • These people form political groupings, accept positions in the Government or candidacies in the parties - both conceded in order to seduce us - and they hector us to take part in elections.
  • Drunk off the champagne, Ronan leaned in to give Rue a kiss, and surely would have if Hector had not pulled the needle off of the record, making an intolerable screeching sound.
  • In 1980, it was again remodeled by order of Dr. Héctor Mayagoitia, the state's Governor, at the time, with the goal of promoting the development of the arts in the state. Durango's colonial architecture: eleven quarry stone gems
  • By the rude poets of the age, John of Brienne is compared to Hector, Roland, and Judas Machabaeus: 43 but their credit, and his glory, receive some abatement from the silence of the Greeks. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
  • Pete: Making fun of hipsters is a perfectly legitimate activity the whole family can enjoy, Hector just elevates it into some sort of grand criticism of modernity as a whole instead of just “damned kids today, with their Howard Zinn and their ironic t-shirts.” joe from Lowell says: Matthew Yglesias » A People’s History of the United States
  • Flaunders and of the lowe countries thereabouts was drenched and lost; 'and Lambard goes on to quote Hector Boethius to the effect that' this place, being sometyme in the possession of the Earl Godwin, was then first violently overwhelmed with a light sande, wherewith it not only remayneth covered ever since, but is become withal (_Navium gurges et vorago_) a most dreadful gulfe and shippe-swallower. ' Heroes of the Goodwin Sands
  • Luz picked up her cup and added cream to the strong brew, aware that Hector was referring to the impending arrival of the other polo students. The Glory Game
  • In Van Renterghem's words, Makine ‘chose to write in French to escape the tutelary shadows of his fatherland’ and Hector Biancotti likewise notes Makine's ‘power of freedom.’
  • Never preach, hector or bully.
  • Peter Sarsgaard is in talks to play the villanous Dr. Hector Hammond. Mark Strong Currently In Talks to Play Sinestro in GREEN LANTERN – Collider.com
  • Why do you allow yourself to be hectored by him?
  • And doing my work well, the innate justice of the men, assisted by their wholesome dislike for a clawing and rending wild-cat ruction, soon led them to give over their hectoring. THAT DEAD MEN RISE UP NEVER
  • Preston just hectors boring people without saying anything particularly interesting.
  • But worst, at least from a political perspective, the hectoring made him look like a grump.
  • Acclaim for the film of Sir Hector's last expedition was gradually wheedling stray young men like sated woodworms, into the light of potential dangers.
  • Her style can only be described as hectoring, irritating and occasionally maddening in its circumlocution.
  • No sooner have people been successfully corralled into shedding a few pounds, they are hectored about the possible dangers of dieting.
  • Researcher Jagannath Adhikari informed that the current rate of land owned by per family is only 0.8 hector.
  • As Ramon and Hector pull on goatskin chaps and nylon slickers, we head up-valley, following the faint trails left by huemules, Patagonia's endangered red deer.
  • The Haji, not loud or hectoringly, but with a composed smile, advises his friends to hold him off. Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah
  • The Trojans wish to avenge the death of Hector; their misplaced values mean that patience in adversity is impossible.
  • Amidst threats, he protects the son of the Trojan Hector, and in doing so, he causes himself to be displaced from a position of central authority.
  • Deco even appealed for a penalty after a Zagorakis challenge in the 50th minute but his unpersuaded team-mates showed no signs of hectoring the German referee Markus Merk.
  • As they returned to their work Hector came to position himself between Kaye and I, squatting down so he was at our level.
  • Yet his default setting on stage remains a kind of hectoringly personable whimsicality. Times, Sunday Times
  • I'd like to think this is Hector and Andromache, but we know from Euripedes that she made it out of Troy alive (carried out, kicking and screaming, on the shoulder of some Greek warrior), along with her mother-in-law and sister-in-law, Hecuba and Cassandra. Lance Mannion:
  • Anyone who comes into her path is treated to her brand of hectoring. Times, Sunday Times
  • Josiah had to stand the hectoring and nagging that thitherto had been distributed among many. THE PRODIGAL FATHER
  • But commandeering my computer for an entire week in order to hector me into giving them more personal information is unconscionable.
  • And, you know, it was weird to see Jughead kind of hectoring you about the evils of divorce and witchcraft and sex education. Archie Meets His First Openly Gay Classmate
  • One, it was she and the circle of hard-nosed war hawks who hectored, badgered, and hammered Bush to launch the war that ravaged that country. Earl Ofari Hutchinson: Condi's Moving Civil Rights Story Can't Trump Her Role in Bush's Despicable Iraq Folly
  • Il corso è stato tenuto in collaborazione con Hector Ayuso, direttore di OFFF, ed Aimee Campos, direttore artistico. No Fat Clips!!! : TALA – OFFF 2007 Opening Credits
  • Halfway down the hill Hector Pieterson was shot and fell, on 16 June, and the spot is now commemorated with a stark stone memorial to the 12-year-old boy.
  • Troy is at its best in the climactic fight scene between Hector and Achilles, and its aftermath.
  • Indeed, we've come a long way from the ‘responsibility era’ that Junior has been hectoring us about for the last four years.
  • If anything, her style can only be described as hectoring, more sniping than frontal attack, irritating and occasionally maddening in its circumlocution.
  • She put Hector through his paces in front of 220 pupils during the school assembly.
  • On one level, the change was simple - the colony readopted Hector's military organization, with a vengeance.
  • Hector proves this was not a mistake and these are precisely the sort of people who buy into this ruminant evacutation. fostert Says: Matthew Yglesias » The Gaza Tunnels
  • Hector's has a good selection of drinks, with premium lagers and a couple of real ales.
  • Is there some law of conservation of puritanism in American culture, that we always have to find a new class of sinners to officially hector? Matthew Yglesias » Food Taxes vs Food Subsidies
  • But disregarding for now the possibly that Hector might not know an englyn from an awdl, there seems to be a grain of truth in that comment. Pidgin Stryd | Quixotic Quisling
  • Paris attempts to downplay his own fighting prowess and Hector chastises him lightly, criticizing him only for avoiding battle, not for lack of ability.
  • Brown and George Raft, canoodled with screen seductress Mae West, chitchatted on the wireless with Antarctic explorer Richard Byrd, earned round-the-clock security protection after a feared kidnapping attempt, shook off a blow to the skull that sent him to a hospital, hectored opposing pitchers, mugged before dozens of cameras, and woofed into every notebook and microphone thrust in his direction, was the stuff of legend. Satch, Dizzy & Rapid Robert
  • “I don't want things this way,” Hector said, more to himself and his bucket than to Rico; the other man coughed and wheezed. Agape
  • Far from hectoring us about the greenhouse effect, the work evokes a kind of polluted beauty - or beauty in pollution - akin to seeing a rainbow in a pool of oil.
  • His memorable departure from the series came in 2002 after his on screen character, Hector, bungled an attempt to blow a killer pike out of the loch using a remote controlled boat and explosives.
  • Hector Douglas, a University of Alaska Fairbanks researcher, said he made the discovery in the feathers of the crested auklet after applying a little scientific intuition and sacrificing some of his own blood.... So that's how they do it..
  • Hector noticed spicules of rime adorning the packing-case shelves like fluffy moulds and hoar on his own beard.
  • Twenty minutes later all tests had been handed in and Hector excused us from the room as the bell rang, announcing the start of a break between classes.
  • Though, let them affirm it never so much in words, there are not wanting arguments to persuade us, that their mouth belies their heart; and that they have an inward, invincible sense of what they outwardly renounce, holding them under the iron bands of a conviction not to be stifled or outbraved, or hectored out of their conscience; as shall be discoursed of afterwards. Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. VI.
  • What Crichton's worldview really amounts to is a kind of hectoring contrarianism that is increasingly targeted at America's know-it-alls, against the liberal elite, against the very type of expertise that had given him his professional cachet. Ed Hamilton: Crichton vs. Crowley: Dinosaurs, Pedophiles, and The Cult of Expertise
  • I've been seventy years an admired hero, the Hector of Afghanistan, the chap who led the Light Brigade, daredevil survivor of countless stricken fields, honoured by Queen and Country, V.C. and Medal of Honour - folk simply don't want to know that such a paladin was a rotter and bully in childhood, and if he was, they don't care. THE NUMBERS
  • The pugnacious, charismatic hectoring figure shown in his full glory on television in recent days also remains a prime candidate to host a similarly hard-hitting political talk show.
  • Of course, the main problem with Health Studies, apart from the hectoring personality of our teacher, was its irrelevance.
  • Gymnase, Lucien and Hector Merlin went arm-inarm to the Vaudeville. A Distinguished Provincial at Paris
  • By the same token he has well-honed skills of debate and a hectoring, let-me-do-it-right-for-you manner when delivering his otherwise glib answers.
  • _damoiselle a'honneur_ to Judge Sefton's lady at Surat, and soon after her arrival there, this pretty Abigail by some means captivated old Hector Dundas, (then governor of the province,) who married her. Thaddeus of Warsaw
  • But in a speech to the Fabian Society in London, Mr Johnson made a veiled attack on the Conservative leader by saying the Government does not have a licence to 'hector' and 'lecture' people on how they live their life. Archive 2008-07-01
  • I swear to God, with my first comment I was going to make a pre-emptive joke about Hector soon arriving with his Crusades/Muslims taking over/abortions/High Church manias, but I decided to avoid rubbing the turd lamp hoping that particular odor would not appear. eric k Says: Matthew Yglesias » McConnell Warns of American Dystopia — More Equality, Less Poverty, Longer Life Expectancy
  • I read a lot of sermons while researching the novel, and it struck me that the amount of hectoring from the pulpit on the proper behavior of women probably reflected a widely held view that a lot of "improper" behavior was going on. A Conversation with Geraldine Brooks about People of the Book
  • Mr Cameron has said it would be wrong for him to "hector" Chinese politicians and business leaders over human rights, ducking questions of whether he will take up the matter at the highest levels. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
  • “Maybe you lose a steer and learn not to make somethings with your eyes at married men,” Mrs. Shimerda told her hectoringly. My Ántonia
  • Here the old man, who had been watching with his little peery eyes, pulled the bulky Hector by the skirt, and whispered, "Do not vapour him the huff, it will not pass -- let the trout play, he will rise to the hook presently. The Fortunes of Nigel
  • In recent weeks, the Romney campaign has also hectored Mr. Perry to offer specific proposals after speaking in generalities during his first two months as a candidate. Perry Looks to Energy to Recharge Economy
  • The city of New York has been an inspiration for figurative painter Hector McDonnell.
  • If Hector and Nolan knew each other, why didn't she introduce us instead of having me asking him for his name?
  • David Cameron has said it would be wrong for him to "hector" Chinese politicians and business leaders over human rights Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
  • Large as the Yarrow was, and it appeared impassable by any living creature, Hector had made his escape early in the morning, had swam the river, and was sitting, 'like a drookit hen,' on a knoll at the east end of the house, awaiting my arrival with great impatience. Anecdotes of Dogs
  • Locog, sponsors and coalition politicians, desperate for the Games to succeed both on their own terms and as a mid-term injection of flag waving optimism against a gloomy economic backdrop, must walk an increasingly fine line between encouraging them to get on board and hectoring them to do so. All is not well ahead of London 2012 as the public remain isolated | Owen Gibson
  • The want of opportunity to pay this compliment to Hector, furnishes Andromache with matter of lamentation, which is related in the Iliad. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 372, May 30, 1829
  • He avoids moralising and hectoring his readers, going instead for strong uncomplicated identification with his leading character.
  • By this you may see the boldnesse of those buzards, that think themselves hectors when they see but their shadowes, & tremble when they see a Iroquoit. Voyages of Peter Esprit Radisson
  • In a loud, hectoring tone, Alan told us that he wasn't going to waste time discussing nonsense.
  • How could I tell Hutton to go to hell with his foul instructions - and have him bearing back to Whitehall (and Windsor and Horse Guards and Pall Mall) the shameful news that the Hector of Afghanistan, hero of Balaclava and Cawnpore, had said thank'ee but he'd rather not save Franz-Josef and the peace of Europe, if you don't mind. Watershed
  • “And Hector’s little boy, Scamandrius, whom the people call Astyanax?” Ilium
  • I'm not looking to be preached at, hectored or lectured in any way.
  • he could not stand her hectoring moralism
  • He must fight singly to morrow with Hector, and is so prophetically proud of an heroycall cudgeling, that he raves in saying nothing. The Historie of Troylus and Cresseida (1609 Edition)
  • Rylander, whose re-election this year is opposed by Democrat Hector Uribe, avoided those issues.
  • In the poem, Hector's body, attached to Achilles' chariot and dragged around Troy, cannot be mutilated because Aphrodite has anointed it with ambrosia.
  • The only thing different about Obama from Hillary is that he's African-American and that has opened the racial floodgates to hector, harass, and demean him. Earl Ofari Hutchinson: Knock Off the 'Run Hillary Run' Chatter
  • The farm belongs to rancher Ramon Sierra, who, with son-in-law Hector Soto Vargas, is providing sturdy Patagonian criollo horses, still shaggy in their winter coats, to get us up the Soler.

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