Example sentences for: animus

How can you use “animus” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The bad news for Sky Dayton is that the Internet is a place where anyone with a home computer, a modem, and some animus can make your life miserable, and perhaps do real damage to your business.

  • And while Lewis believes Said to be motivated by a crude anti-Western leftist animus, Ahmad finds him altogether too enamored of the canons of European literature and avers that Said possesses "a very conservative mind, essentially Tory in its structure."

  • No doubt some of my animus toward the article is related to these comments about my book.

  • The WP seems to reveal that this juror ended up with at least a touch of militia-style animus against the feds when it quotes her remark: "I think the government's attitude.is part of where all this comes from in the first place.

  • The Washington Post 's Jonathan Yardley defends his attack on Kathryn Harrison's incest memoir against novelist Tobias Wolff's claims that he was motivated by his animus toward memoir as a genre: "The truth, as opposed to Wolff's self-serving fantasy, is that my objections to 'The Kiss' have absolutely nothing to do with its being a memoir per se, or even with its being one of those 'personal writings that have recently found favor with readers.


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