Example sentences for: animus

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

  • The London Evening Standard said in an editorial that "no reasonable person could feel any personal animus against Emperor Akihito" but that "most Londoners will feel little reason to celebrate," because "the rising sun flag remains, for much of the world, a symbol of terror and shame."

  • By his own account, KSM's animus toward the United States stemmed not from his experiences there as a student, but rather from his violent disagreement with U.S. foreign policy favoring Israel.

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

  • On Meet the Press , William F. Buckley Jr. nominated Pope John Paul II as his POC for "providing the special spiritual animus that made all the difference in the '70s and '80s in overcoming the greatest threat of the century, which was the Soviet Union."

  • Moore, Bailey, Cato, and CEI can all be fairly described as having an ideological animus against the fretful liberalism of Global 2000 , but then much the same can be said of the liberal establishment's attitude toward Moore, Bailey, Cato, and CEI.


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