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  • The interesting element of the game was that it required one to evaluate not films but people; that is, to sift through the prejudices of one’s movie-freak friends and the peccadilloes and quirks of the major reviewers, and by graphing, as it were, what each could be expected to overpraise, underpraise, revile, not notice, or deliberately ignore, one could acquire a very nice sense of the film. Film flam
  • Despite his major contribution to medical science, he died reviled, his name soon forgotten.
  • The inclusion of wine stymied him for a long time, though later he reviled himself for being so dim. A SONG AT TWILIGHT
  • There will be tribulation and people will revile you and slander you, but he has overcome and that we live for that.
  • The inclusion of wine stymied him for a long time, though later he reviled himself for being so dim. A SONG AT TWILIGHT
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  • Hobbes is just one of many famous philosophers Berlin castigated in his lecture, but it is Hobbes's bleak and elemental philosophy that most conveniently sums up what Berlin and other moralists so revile. Was Democracy Just a Moment?
  • And those standing by said, Do you revile the high priest of God?
  • When injured, he immediately forgave, as he hoped to be forgiven, [1] and when reviled and persecuted, he never became 'persecutor'. The Life of Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1838
  • The world mistrusts us and reviles our president for this.
  • She was hugely reviled as a ‘prostitute’ and ‘unsex'd female’.
  • Why would he release such a valuable individual into a world where any citizen, young or old, would revile him as a monster?
  • Jesus demands that the people look to their deeds before all else, reviles wealth and importance, insists that the lowliest, least superficially deserving of beggars is more readily accepted by God than those who trumpet achievement and virtue. He Ain’t Heavy « Tales from the Reading Room
  • If we keep this mighty nation one and inseparable, we shall have answered it forever; if not, why then those who revile man as vile and irreclaimably degraded may raise their pæans of triumph; the black spectres of antique tyrants may clap their hands gleefully in the land of accursed shadows, and hell hold high carnival, for, verily, it would seem as if they had triumphed, and that hope were a lie. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 2, February, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy
  • The very thought of hearing her name reviled by the jealous woman before him filled him with wrath. Adrien Leroy
  • For fear, of all the humiliating reasons, of losing out on exclusive interviews with any future nationally reviled guests. TEN STEPS TO HAPPINESS
  • The medias revile the old fellow inclines to destroy the team Spain. The 68-years-old man is a dotard.
  • Fanny packs, small bags that fasten around the waist, are among the most reviled accessories in modern culture, carrying inevitable associations with "scary American tourists at the Louvre," says designer Isaac Mizrahi. With Fanny Packs on the Runway, Can Mom Jeans Be Far Behind?
  • The bus conductor is being reviled by a rude man.
  • What the widely reviled money lenders need is a bit of an image makeover. Times, Sunday Times
  • For the last six years, he has found himself reviled and disparaged by most of America, with every transgression in and out of the ring adding to the image of an unpleasant human being.
  • During the years of feminist revilement, Hughes wrote and said little in public about his life with Plath.
  • In the never-ending debate over the impact of non-native species, there are invaders many of us have come to accept and even revere (the ringneck pheasant, Huns, chukars) and there are invaders that are almost universally reviled (the snakehead, kudzu, zebra mussels, Texas Longhorn fans). Uncategorized Blog Posts
  • The patent claim, riddled with typos and non sequiturs, has already been widely reviled, but if successful could blow a chill through the hand-held industry.
  • The euro seems to be reviled with avidity and fervour wherever one goes, from Holland to the Med.
  • The man who embodies this callousness and disdain more than any other is the widely reviled Interior Minister, Nicolas Sarkozy. A Little Rioting, now and then, is a Good Thing
  • The old man reviled against corruption.
  • The Soviet Union was ferociously reviled by the reaction and its coryphaeus at the service of the exploiters. MASS RALLY
  • Notwithstanding the historical truths, that although the gospel has been preached in Polynesia for a century or more, and that there is no other nation which has made such rapid progress in civilization and Christianity, yet Mr. Foster had the assurance to stand up in Washington, and revile all the native Hawaiian sovereigns. Hawaii's Story, by Hawaii's Queen
  • Nancy Reagan was reviled as a Hollywood airhead until she was reviled as a secret Machiavellian.
  • The inclusion of wine stymied him for a long time, though later he reviled himself for being so dim. A SONG AT TWILIGHT
  • He was a sceptic liberal who, in Two Cheers for Democracy, reviled Churchillian nationalism and powerfully argued the social value of being tepidly rather than ardently nationalist.
  • It's a country that embraces the West economically but, at least officially, reviles it through its dominant form of Islam. William Bradley: One Word: Obama's Nightmare Scenario, and Why It Hasn't Happened (Yet)
  • Although he is increasingly reviled these days for his purported stylistic preciosity, John Updike remains a writer I am able to read with pleasure because he successfully avoids inflicting such damage. Point of View in Fiction
  • Lk. 6:28 Bless those who curse you ; pray for those revile you.
  • In the course of that bitter conflict, Lincoln had been reviled and attacked without mercy.
  • What's his next miscalculated step along the path to universal revilement and hatred?
  • The objects of loathing may be topical – one person reviles "blogosphere", another "staycation" – but the loathing itself is ingrained. Author, author: Henry Hitchings on neologisms
  • These often reviled one another bitterly and openly attacked the government beyond the bounds of reason.
  • Many, however, are the selfsame people who reviled and ridiculed the Celtic chief executive throughout his five years.
  • Revered by some and reviled by many, Monsieur Arthens has been lording it over the world's most esteemed chefs for years, passing judgment on their creations, deciding their fates with a stroke of his pen, destroying and building reputations on a whim. Gourmet Rhapsody by Muriel Barbery: Book summary
  • Him the son of Aeson with prudence addressed: "Good friend, assuredly with an evil word didst thou revile me, saying before them all that I was the wronger of a kindly man. The Argonautica
  • The much-reviled "bootlegger," after all, is just a businessman, albeit a businessman without an office or membership in a chamber of commerce. Nunatsiaq News - Online
  • Adored by their fans and reviled by their critics, not since Stryper has a band with such big hair been so close to heaven and hell.
  • They had taken the brunt of battle during the war against Chaos and yet they were reviled by their fellows.
  • It is one of the many ironies of his situation that the very same people who used to revile him for being enslaved to opinion polls now lambast him for not listening to the public.
  • Yogh grabbed hold of a nearby pillar to steady himself, and found out - much to his revilement - that it was composed of skulls, both human and animal.
  • Yet wherever he went in the country of his birth he was reviled and denounced as opportunistic and even racist.
  • RxM: How about co-opting a term reviled by all physicians, and call yourself a "Therapeutic Substance Provider. Neologia
  • Acts 23:4 And those standing by said, Do you revile the high priest of God?
  • Vinyl siding is especially reviled, as it is, after all, plastic, and the worst plastic of all (environmentally unsound PVC).
  • Like, in fact, Pomerol or Saint-Emilion — legendary French Bordeaux made principally from the recently reviled Merlot. Merlot for Snobs
  • That may sound like thin consolation for a party whose recent trend line looks a lot like the Dow: Not quite as reviled as we were in the aftermath of Watergate? Glass Half Full, Glass Half Empty
  • Judge Brett Cullum thinks this oft-reviled David Lynch feature definitely has its charms, if you know how to approach it.
  • Rivaldo, reviled by supporters on the basis that he is not the revered Romario, has used that foundation to score five goals in as many matches.
  • The self-styled ‘rockney’ duo use this Christmas knees-up to celebrate one of the more remarkable turnarounds in fortune in recent pop history: from reviled gorblimey joke to critically acclaimed, Libertines-endorsed, Glastonbury-slaying stars.
  • Widely reviled bad boy Craig Bellamy nets both goals thanks to some generosity from Crystal Palace goalkeeper Gabor Kiraly.
  • Mostly reviled as trash, I was one of the few that found the sequel to be a fun and goofy romp.
  • What's particularly interesting about the song is that those singing on the track are doing so despite the fact that the major label record industry reviles Megaupload for the ease with which its music can be pirated by those using the web service. Megaupload Music Video: Kanye West, Kim Kardashian, Will.i.am Star (VIDEO)
  • Alice Roberts looks back at Dundee's history of whaling and meets former whalers who risked their lives in this now reviled industry.
  • In Churchill's darkest hour, the future PM is reduced to a choleric, drunken, melancholic old man, reviled and mocked as a warmonger by the Establishment and the British public alike.
  • Terribly bullied by the Americans were the boatmen and muleteers, who were reviled, shot, and stabbed by these free and independent filibusters, who would fain whop all creation abroad as they do their slaves at home. Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands
  • She had been railroaded into the job, under the supervision of a widely reviled manager, because no one inside the company would take it.
  • Whatever one may think of “molecular gastronomy” a term that Ferran reviles, it represents the most dramatic change to restaurant cooking since Escoffier. The Sorcerer’s Apprentices
  • The reason why Bush has now become so reviled is not because he started a war of aggression or because he had prisoners tortured. Matthew Yglesias » The Embrace
  • He is probably the most reviled man in contemporary theatre.
  • This does not mean I am against coursebooks or that I feel that using a coursebook page, albeit more creatively, is something I revile. C is for Coursebook (by Lindsay Clandfield) « An A-Z of ELT
  • What the widely reviled money lenders need is a bit of an image makeover. Times, Sunday Times
  • Casse continues: Mr. Caplan also claims that voters revile a corporation that downsizes at home and sends jobs abroad, a business decision that most economists view as socially productive. Do Voters' Biases Bias Policy?, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
  • Furthermore, rare are the religious bodies today that exclude thieves or greedy persons, or drunkards or revilers or robbers or even adulterers or prostitutes, or idolaters from the kingdom of God and the precincts of the sanctuary.
  • The Second Republic, which began with Abraham Lincoln, ended with the well-meaning but reviled and ineffectual Herbert Hoover. Welcome to the Fourth Republic
  • Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe - reviled by the west - was greeted by screams, clapping and ululation in Dar es Salaam on Monday at the opening of a summit of southern African countries.
  • His books were removed from British libraries, his works banned by the BBC, and his name ranked alongside the nation's most reviled traitors. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
  • It did not seem at all incongruous, either, that these people who watched him by with scorn and longing and utter revilement, these were the people that he would fight for.
  • But it is too much that the benefactors of mankind, after having been reviled by the dunces of their own generation for going too far, should be reviled by the dunces of the next generation for not going far enough.
  • Cleon, the hero of the Peloponnesian war, advocated the public renouncement of friends upon dealing with public affairs -- he paid for it with some revilement by historians. Nassim Nicholas Taleb: The Regulator Franchise, or the Alan Blinder Problem
  • For a movie that was so different, it should surprise no one that the movie tanked at the box office and was generally reviled by the critical press.
  • While some rallied to the singer-poet's defence, he was reviled by others.
  • The parson of the parish, who was one of the executors, and had acted as ghostly director to the old man, no sooner heard this exclamation than he cried out, “Avaunt, unchristian reviler! avaunt! wilt thou not allow the soul of his honour to rest in peace?” The Adventures of Roderick Random
  • He was reviled and revered for his glossy spreads of naked co-eds in erotic photos, which followed "the philosophy of voyeurism," he once said. Bob Guccione's life in photos
  • Sadr -- feared by some, reviled by others and revered by a broad swath of Iraq's urban poor -- is now a kingmaker in Iraqi politics.
  • The euro seems to be reviled with avidity and fervour wherever one goes, from Holland to the Med.
  • Philip Roth, another kid from the Weequahic section of Newark where I grew up, was reviled for telling goyim about some of the values held in our 'hood that our clan thought best kept private, so it will come as no surprise, though it is no less discomfiting to recall, that in the four-family houses on the block where I was raised, the word shvartze was not used merely to name a color. Marty Kaplan: "But He's a Muslim!"
  • Lk. 6:28 Bless those who curse you ; pray for those revile you.
  • The euro seems to be reviled with avidity and fervour wherever one goes, from Holland to the Med.
  • She also referred to the South China Sea as the West Philippine Sea, a term preferred in the Philippines but reviled in China. The Seattle Times
  • The negation of the negation is something like faith revealed as lies (which is why we revile hypocritical priests and pastors so very much). Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » Plotting for the Severely Right Brained
  • Her depiction of the smothering, conniving and insufferable Ms. Iselin, mother to Raymond, earned the veteran actress the well-deserved distinction as one of the screen's most reviled villainesses.
  • There will be tribulation and people will revile you and slander you, but he has overcome and that we live for that.
  • Alice Roberts looks back at Dundee's history of whaling and meets former whalers who risked their lives in this now reviled industry.
  • The inclusion of wine stymied him for a long time, though later he reviled himself for being so dim. A SONG AT TWILIGHT
  • As copy editor, and as an acquaintance to many of the complainants, I have received several letters expressing individuals' revilement with the cavalier attitude presented toward women.
  • Many of the mechanics, for instance, eschewed and reviled teleology. THE BROKEN GOD
  • Oder is reviled by local Republicans, who has been yelling at since 2007, the Democrats have a solid candidate in Gary West who has been successful at fundraising, and more imporantly, Brian Kirwin is running the Campaign for Oder! House of Delegates Preview- Part 1
  • Some of us admire them, some revile them, but most people can't imagine joining their ranks. Jay Walljasper: Why Biking Is More Patriotic Than Flag Waving
  • If they are not, consider that thou art not the person whom he reproaches, but that he reviles an imaginary being, and perhaps loves what thou really art, although he hates what thou appearest to be. The Aldine, Vol. 5, No. 1., January, 1872 A Typographic Art Journal
  • Last August, Republican consultant and former state senator Stan Barnes, speaking about the split within the party, said McCain is "reviled" by much of the Arizona GOP leadership. Dawn Teo: Minutemen Founder Challenges McCain For Senate
  • Nor thieves , nor covetous , nor drunkards , nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.
  • NEW YORK Here's good news for New York Yankees fans — and bad news for those who revile the club as the Evil Empire: The richest club in baseball is about to get richer. Despite financial crisis, new stadium, Yankees prosper in 2009
  • They are almost always the brainchild of a visionary, but the "tribe" scorns if not reviles them. Politics
  • The bus conductor is being reviled by a rude man.
  • Freedom from responsibility scares the masses and I am reviled as all good prophets should be. THE MANANA MAN
  • Him the son of Aeson with prudence addressed: “Good friend, assuredly with an evil word didst thou revile me, saying before them all that I was the wronger of a kindly man. The Argonautica
  • Will the former dictator be mythologised as a hero or reviled as the tyrant he was?
  • They too were reviled as outsiders, branded as parasites on the indigenous society.
  • What the widely reviled money lenders need is a bit of an image makeover. Times, Sunday Times
  • Progressives have watched in bemusement the past year and half as Reid, reviled as the spineless embodiment of Democratic weakness, has emerged as a liberal champion in opposition to the White House. Harry Reid, The Man Who Never Says Goodbye
  • This does not mean I am against coursebooks or that I feel that using a coursebook page, albeit more creatively, is something I revile. C is for Coursebook (by Lindsay Clandfield) « An A-Z of ELT
  • I revile her Party's views and racist policies wholeheartedly yet I believe that three years in a maximum security is a manifestly unjust sentence for her.
  • The "reviled" frescoes of the Duomo, painted by Vasani in 1579 with close-up. Italy Day 12-13: The Beauty of Florence
  • A mean wretch that cannot vie with another in virtue will assail him with malignity: -- The narrow-minded envier will somehow manage to revile thee, who in thy presence might have the tongue of his utterance struck dumb. The Persian Literature, Comprising The Shah Nameh, The Rubaiyat, The Divan, and The Gulistan, Volume 2
  • One that I par­tic­u­larly revile is “blood and trea­sure,” a favorite of warrior-politics neo­cons. Red Badge of Verbiage « Snarkmarket
  • Let the mad world who feoff at them Revile and hate me too. Olney hymns [by J. Newton and W. Cowper.].
  • REVILED as a chinless, wingless, humourless, smug English twit, Alf was, in fact, the perfect ambassador for his country, Little England.
  • It is these Right Wing talk show hosts who incessantly revile the federal bureaucrats as devils incarnate issuing unnecessary economy-strangling regulations merely to solidify their own continued employment. Edward Flattau: Environmental Masochism
  • They too were reviled as outsiders, branded as parasites on the indigenous society.
  • His campaign on her behalf caused him to be scorned, mocked and reviled. Times, Sunday Times
  • Watching their offspring struggle for glory on the tennis court, mothers and fathers are among the most reviled people in sport.
  • Blessed were the meek, the persecuted, the reviled, for we would be exalted in the Kingdom of Heaven.
  • All should bear in mind an Egyptian curse on a tomb of the second millennium BC: ‘May he who violates my site and damages my grave or takes my body be reviled by the Ka of Re.’
  • Anyone who tries to buck the trend is reviled, slandered and sentenced to career death.
  • Turkish leaders who reviled and mistreated him and took him to court repeatedly on trumped up charges of "Insulting Turkishness" are now expressing their "sincerest" condolences to his family. Harut Sassounian: Murder of an Armenian Journalist In Istanbul Causes Unexpected Public Outcry in Turkey
  • Critics and audiences alike reviled it for its oppressive atmosphere and the direction in which it took the Alien franchise.
  • Beijing reviles Lee, an outspoken critic of China, for trying to break Taiwan out of diplomatic isolation during his 12 years in power, which ended in May 2000.
  • This was somewhat ironic, as I know for a fact that my family once had its roots in the moors of England as well, and that we were one of the wealthier families and reviled by many.
  • The judge was reviled in the newspapers for his opinions on rape.
  • No doubt he will be reviled by the race-relations brigade.
  • As such, they are venerated and reviled in equal measure. Times, Sunday Times
  • NEW YORK Here's good news for New York Yankees fans — and bad news for those who revile the club as the Evil Empire: The richest club in baseball is about to get richer. Despite financial crisis, new stadium, Yankees prosper in 2009
  • He reviles the anti-intellectual face of capitalism. Paul Morley on music
  • Not that it will be easy for a player reviled by the fans of almost every other team, even though he has been cleared of the offence more often than he has been found guilty.
  • It's just for sale from one pissed off celebrity who dosent want his name reviled," (or maybe revealed, though both could work) reads the ad, which also claims E! Online (US) - Top Stories
  • Sherry has been much reviled by reviewers and accused of literally losing the plot.
  • Although he was reviled at the time as a shallow opportunist, it is fairer to see Brienne as a pragmatic political operator who did what he could to retrieve an increasingly impossible situation.
  • Many seven to 11-year-olds revile her because she is a "babyish" reminder of their early childhood. December 20th, 2005
  • Perhaps if those who reviled and insulted Said could have read this book, they might have desisted.
  • While this may seem counterintuitive in the face of continued domestic violence worldwide, it is notable that in those societies or communities where intimate violence is stigmatized and reviled, the violence abates. Marianne Mollmann: Making Noise About Violence and Women
  • Shorn of the Teleprompter, he not only runs the risk of revealing a disfluency that could rival (or even exceed?) that of his reviled predecessor George Bush - he may reveal who he truly is, an angry man with a profoundly radical agenda for America. The Blog from the Core
  • Buffeted by scorn, hated, reviled, he nurses his own hatred, seeking refuge in the thickets of the Law, because true justice has eluded him.
  • Yet he knew he had to proceed with caution and not risk becoming reviled by both camps. THE GUARDSMEN
  • The Persian hadjys, well known as sectaries of Aly, and revilers of Mohammed and his immediate followers, are not subjected to any particular inconveniences. Travels in Arabia
  • In the course of that bitter conflict, Lincoln had been reviled and attacked without mercy.
  • Watch her take on role after role as American culture increasingly reviles the liberation of anyone by choosing instead greed over character. Paula Gordon: Barbara Jean at Rest
  • Blessed were the meek, the persecuted, the reviled, for we would be exalted in the Kingdom of Heaven.
  • And Beatrice and Virgil deserves to be severely reviled because this book, which should not have even been permitted even the fourth-class method of self-publication, earned its bumpkin author a six figure sum through indolence and incompetence. Why Yann Martel’s Beatrice and Virgil is the Worst Book of the Decade : Edward Champion’s Reluctant Habits
  • It was to this much respected and much reviled predikant a Pretorian high official said: "We were determined to let it drift to a rupture with England, for then our dream would be realised of a Republic reaching to Table Mountain"; but surely such a song and such a scene in the State's Model School was a thing of which no man dreamed! With the Guards' Brigade from Bloemfontein to Koomati Poort and Back
  • He was ridiculed and reviled, but this did not deter him for one second from crusading on behalf of society's outcasts.
  • Why do you think God may have called any of these persons you so quickly dismiss and revile into ordained ministry or guided a Synod to vote for them? Anglican Church of Canada is hawking the silverware « Anglican Samizdat
  • Bardwell has enough familiarity with the social mores to know that racists are reviled, which is why he told reporters that the label doesn't fit him. New Orleans Saints Central
  • What the widely reviled money lenders need is a bit of an image makeover. Times, Sunday Times
  • Yet he knew he had to proceed with caution and not risk becoming reviled by both camps. THE GUARDSMEN
  • Is it necessary to point out the folly as well as the crime of this delusion -- the ludicrous inconsequence of men who divinize humanity yet revile what they call "society"? Secret Societies And Subversive Movements
  • Lk. 6:28 Bless those who curse you ; pray for those who revile you.
  • Lk. 6:28 Bless those who curse you ; pray for those who revile you.
  • Mayor Bing, who now has his papers to be Mayor In Full and not just a term finisher; I think Bing will be one of those mayors who may well be reviled and hated publicly by a fair number of vocal groups and individuals who despise the radical cuts he is implementing, among other things. The "D" Spot
  • If she was rejected by an elite and urban northern black community, she also reviled them, scorning their white lifestyle as ‘dicty’ (a pejorative coinage).
  • He is probably the most reviled man in contemporary theatre.
  • People who are creative, who invent and discover new ways are reviled.
  • Many of the mechanics, for instance, eschewed and reviled teleology. THE BROKEN GOD
  • His campaign on her behalf caused him to be scorned, mocked and reviled. Times, Sunday Times

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