How To Use John Adams In A Sentence
- The position of the Federalist Party of President John Adams was that of the English jurist William Blackstone.
- John Adams, the major figure in the Continental Congress, and George Washington, the commander in chief of the Continental Army, are the chief players in this unusual story.
- Perhaps more pointedly, the backlash to the law had contributed to the defeat of John Adams and to the ultimate demise of the Federalist Party.
- Even John Adams, the transatlantic dean of minimalism, is at heart a maximalist, if the hectic massiness of his own essay in metaphysical erotics, Harmonium, is a guide.
- In the election of 1800, one of the dirtiest in American history, the venomous hack writer James Callendar (secretly hired by Thomas Jefferson) assailed then-President John Adams as a “repulsive pedant” and “a hideous hermaphroditical character,” whatever that means. The Complete History of Dirty Politics: A Q&A on Anything for a Vote - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com
- Like John Adams, Volans is something of a minimalist in his use of repeating patterns but like Adams he's very much a "post-minimalist. Atlantic Crossing
- Thomas Jefferson had one of his henchmen—excuse me, surrogates—accuse John Adams, in a series of newspaper essays, of being a "hideous hermaphroditical character," a "strange compound of ignorance and ferocity, of deceit and weakness," a "repulsive pedant. How Honest Is 'Honest Abe'?
- Looking glum throughout the prandial affair, the former president afterwards e-mailed John Adams.
- The Federalists passed the Sedition Act and John Adams used it to imprison newspaper columnists who wrote articles critical of his administration.
- The shout of laughter that followed this was not in proportion to the depth but the unexpectedness of the joke, and John Adams went on his way, chuckling at the impudence of what he called the precocious snipe. The Lonely Island The Refuge of the Mutineers
