scathing Betydning & definition

Eksempler på scathing

• His first mention of her, a year and a half after his arrival in 1662 was scathing.

• He was scathing about the present emphasis on talking through problems.

• She penned a scathing letter, chastising him for his lack of filial feeling.

• Some respondents were quite scathing about their peers and colleagues.

• Every chapter includes some discussion of cultural relativism, cultural anthropology, or postmodernism, and her analyses are acute and scathing.

• She expressed scathing criticism of those who assume, as a matter of principle, that communal land rights are a social good and a universal demand of indigenous peoples.

• Daniels was scathing in his criticism of the soulless machine.

• Diller (1974) wrote a scathing attack on the compound/coordinate distinction, calling it a ' 'conceptual artifact' '.