This thesis discusses emphatically the constitution of innuendo speech act in novels: reference act, narrative act, disparaging act.
In one study, for instance, subjects were asked to listen to recordings of people supposedly saying disparaging things about them.
Do not go to the point of disparaging or diverge. If anything is false, it is true that company is around.
An unmarried missionary had been disparaging herself.
Last year it also denied that Chirac had made the disparaging remark about Finnish and British cuisine.
If you jump right into job hunting, you risk entering an interview with a negative attitude or making a disparaging remark about your former employer, neither of which will win you any points.
For example, senior politicians in South Africa have promoted unproven therapies while at times disparaging antiretroviral drugs.
With hands deeply rooted in pockets, she cast one last disparaging sneer from under her hood, turned on her heel and marched briskly toward the warmth of the station cafe.
And above all, we must stop disparaging digital prowess just because some of us over 40 don't happen to possess it.
Your dispassionate focus allows your mind to be clear of unnecessary, disparaging thoughts and emotions.
Nicolas Chartier (see photo) is said to have violated Oscar rules that prohibit mailings promoting one film and disparaging another.
