| Davie qualifies bold assertions and subordinate escape-clauses, paradoxical epithets and sentences opening with an adversative link. |
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| The woman begins to hurl racial epithets at them and goes as far as to hit one of the students. |
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| And as far as the epithets, and language, and everything else, you could hear that in any schoolyard. |
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| So when he starts to verbally assault Zack, hurling painful epithets at him, one feels disoriented since they seemed to get along in school. |
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| In Ancient Greek poetry, poets used epithets to make names fit the metrical patterns they composed within. |
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| Alliteration abounds, pithy epithets are the order of the day, the cliches of journalese are flowing till we're all blue in the face. |
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| The epithets chart a subtle change in perception of the state, from dull, square outland to parking lot for middle-class transients. |
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| Unpleasant epithets, abuses, unprintable words and curses were being shot at each other with anger-soaked bullets. |
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| If in such situations a few choice epithets escape your lips, then you are guilty of lalochezia, or cursing for anxiolytic effect. |
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| Either she'll be touched to be rediscovered or she'll be very, very indignant and hurl ethnocentric epithets. |
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| Undeserved appellations and humiliating epithets divest him of his self-esteem. |
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| He went on a rampage when he was arrested Friday on suspicion of drunk driving, hurling religious epithets. |
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| He noticed that most of the other words were racist epithets or the standard obscenities. |
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| Blustering racial epithets simply is not cricket, and it's a positive move by the ICC to punish offenders. |
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| I learnt that because of your game, you had picked up several endearing epithets. |
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| There are brief mentions of how Washington's punch resulted in him receiving death threats, many of them inflected with racial epithets. |
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| Family names are arranged alphabetically beneath the divisions, and within each family the generic names and epithets are also alphabetized. |
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| Forms of address, epithets, and pronoun references that signal service and status, then clashes of rank, also get interwoven. |
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| I have words to describe these people, good old Anglo-Saxon epithets in the main, and none of them polite. |
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| He shrieks where he should argue, and hurls vulgar epithets in my direction. |
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| The skillful artist defines objects with the lucidity of sunlight, and needs no epithets. |
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| At the theatre, he bullies a bad actor off the stage, throwing money, as well as epithets, after the inept mummer. |
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| In critiquing his poems, reviewers substituted epithets for analysis. |
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| Stadiums full of pot-bellied goombahs fuelled up on overpriced beer and screaming epithets at people from another city make me feel, well, foreign. |
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| And just as the Inuit have many words for snow, we have a plethora of epithets for excrement, ranging all the way from the gutlessly genteel to the egregiously gross. |
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| On request of compere to describe the noble taste of HARDY with quotable epithets came forward all the attendees. |
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| Policy wonk, nerdy control freak, bureaucrat-in-chief, charisma-free bore and junketeer are some of the kinder epithets the whingeing Aussies have applied to the man. |
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| These epithets provided indirect evidence of the basic nature of both groups. |
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| Coren recommended that all pit-bulls be killed and averred that all pit-bull owners were morons, trash or other choice epithets. |
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| There were outpourings of prejudice and hatred, fantasies of violence accompanied by curses and epithets, psychotic rhapsodies, monologues of suicide and self-mutilation. |
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| Sadly for the Nuge, hurling racially charged epithets at the president is not really breaking news. |
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| Although honorific epithets were commonplace for the Seleucids and Ptolemies, the nicknames of all other members of the Antigonid family were either uncertain or insulting. |
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| Of the many flattering epithets applied to the work by art connoisseurs, the one that most applies is 'luciferous. |
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| The work is heavily Homeric, remote and noble, full of gloomy gray seas and doomy gray mountains, and ribboned with bardlike epithets. |
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| In late July, a man shouted similar epithets at Sandeep Singh before running him over with his truck and dragging him nearly 30 feet. |
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| These kind of epithets are not really conducive to sitting down with premiers, which his government has not done yet. |
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| In criminal law, this is therefore slander without object and, as such, stupid epithets must be done away with. |
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| The jobless are going to get blue ribbons. We have a minister who uses crude epithets to insult cities and their citizens. |
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| But no performer in musical history more greatly deserves these epithets than Niccolò Paganini. |
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| Such differences as exist among media do not warrant harsher treatment of threats, slurs, epithets, or harassing language because they occur in digital form. |
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| He shot at them with his Nerf Gun, assaulted them with racial epithets, and worst of all, he stole their snacks. |
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| Everything was done to make us throw away sobriety of thought and calmness of judgment and to inflate all expressions with sensational epithets and turgid phrases. |
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| Stupid epithets do not allege anything specific. |
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| Some rough language, including racial epithets. |
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| To Mr Chavez, innured to such epithets, it no longer matters much. |
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| Those are some of the kinder epithets being bandied about in Colombia in reference to Ingrid Betancourt, the French-Colombian politician who was once the nation's most famed hostage. |
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| Different branches of a family with the same surname sometimes used distinguishing epithets, which sometimes became surnames in their own right. |
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| Mr. Taube or the Conservative think-tank get epithets from the Prime Minister and the Minister of Finance. They call it shabby, wrong, contradictory, poorly done, et cetera. |
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| She may not have been described as a virgin originally, but virginity was attributed to her very early and was the basis for the interpretation of her epithets Pallas and Parthenos. |
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| He would purge his book of much offensive matter, if he struck out epithets which are in the bad taste of the forcible-feeble school. |
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| The poet has a choice of epithets or formulae to use in order to fulfill the alliteration. |
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| Different cities often worshipped the same deities, sometimes with epithets that distinguished them and specified their local nature. |
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| Familiar epithets for the revolver were equalizer, shootin' iron... smoke wagon. |
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| Various messages called for the segregation of non-whites and were replete with inflammatory, derogatory epithets referring to the targeted groups. |
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| He spouted ugly and generalized epithets, comprehensible only in their flailing nastiness and not because a serious listener might have actually understood what his competitor did, if anything, to merit criticism. |
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| Verbal abuse consists of repeatedly calling one's partner epithets, including much foul language, berating and demeaning-put-downs, in other words-threatening, criticizing, even in public. |
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| The panel heard evidence that the member used inappropriate language and epithets with reference to students, including references to their race, and grabbed and pinched students' arms and shoulders. |
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| The various limiting epithets are central to the meaning of the provision. |
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| That left some on those bar stools tossing out epithets. |
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| Through the rhymed iambic heptameter, the epithets, and the synecdoches, Hemans transplants American Indian experience from its own cultural ground to English soil. |
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| The epithets marmoreus, eburneus, and candidus, are all applied to beauty by the Roman poets, sometimes as to their shape, and sometimes as to the shiningness here spoken of. |
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