Consigned by a disobliging fate to the era of Gladstone and Guizot, he has far less in common with those worthies than with Rafael Trujillo and with Papa Doc. |
Do not be discouraged by negative comments or disobliging remarks that could demobilize you. |
I made a disobliging reference to Pinter in my piece, and then discovered before the deadline that the speech had actually been delivered the day before. |
The figure tramped through the alleys, forgoing the masses of disobliging people for the emptiness of the slums. |
It's a strange thing, but when you are dreading something, and would give anything to slow down time, it has a disobliging habit of speeding up. |
Asked in Europe for her name at airport immigration, for instance, she was fiercely disobliging. |