animadversion

No argument backs up the animadversion, so who can tell?

The animadversion is important to the story, as it reveals a bit of the character's insecurity.

In the past, such animadversion generally stopped short of private lives, at least in the respectable press.

It set a style, tight but rich using animadversion, for Hall's theological writings.

Animadversion about people in politics is among our most sacred traditions, and those who can't stand the heat don't belong in the kitchen.

In this animadversion on "Macbeth," specters abound.

But; unfortunately, the extravagance of her conduct, which was very unsuitable to her situation, soon became the subject of general animadversion.

"The Animadversion towards the Aeon."

Higgons was writing at this time from a Catholic point of view; the work was an animadversion on a passage of his.

He singles out for special animadversion the views in which his professors and associates dissent even lightly from the opinions of the Angelic Doctor.

But Simon's reviews, while shrewd and wide-ranging, are less rich in diversion than in animadversion; nor are they meant for quick consumption.

About this time he brought upon himself the animadversion [criticism] of Heine, who was then editor of a Munich paper.

"Today's Papers" heard from many readers countering last week's animadversion about the WP 's use of the phrase "innocent verdict."

Having finished my undertaking, the subsequent pages are cheerfully submitted to the perusal and approbation or animadversion of a candid, generous and indulgent public.

As late as 1840 a study noted that the burgh of Calton was not exposed to the same degree of "animadversion" as Glasgow.

Due to the vehement animadversion and tenacious opposition from the liberals and traditionalists conservatives towards his government, Caro imposed a severe censorship law against the opposition.

Henry Ainsworth published An Animadversion to Mr. Richard Clyftons Advertisement, Amsterdam, 1613.

For, these being the condition of communion and the bond of the society, if the breach of them were permitted without any animadversion the society would immediately be thereby dissolved.

A stranger would have thought an author in Paris was afraid of incurring the animadversion of the police, by publishing a work of any kind without cramming into it some insult to me.

Sir George Wheeler and M. le Chevalier fall under his severe animadversion; and, indeed, according to his account, neither of these gentlemen had visited the island, and the description of the latter is "absolutely too absurd for refutation."

When Ben makes a tender animadversion about proportionality, and warns against adding to the bloodiness of an already bloodied world, Jay retorts: "By causing a minor blip of bloodshed in one human being I'm going to prevent further bloodshed."

If there is truth to the contention--Steiner is persuasive when he compares various fields and finds that only architecture and modern dance, those uniquely American triumphs, exhibit signs of life--his argument still feels more like animadversion than rigorous reflection.

Animadversion, literally a drawing of attention to material, was a common enough choice of pamphleteers of the time, in which writings of the opponent were quoted at some length (but selectively), and replied to in extended form and with polemic intention.

An Animadversion About 'Pomposity' "His pomposity and tergiversations on every issue make his running as a Republican an anomaly we ought to correct," Mr. Buckley said in a telephone interview from his home in Sharon, Conn.

Whilst they will exercise the right of spirited and vigorous animadversion upon public questions, and boldly expose public delinquencies, they will sedulously avoid all tendency to private slander, and endeavour to prevent the best prerogatives and most important duties of the press from degenerating into calumny and abuse.