Example sentences for: scathing

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

  • The early response is surprisingly kind: Conventional wisdom has held that everyone was waiting to knock Brown off her cloud, but there are notably few scathing condemnations or laudatory pieces about the magazine in the news today.

  • The New York Post reported yesterday (and even David Bowie could probably learn a thing or two about self-promotion from the Post , which today did a story on a Giuliani reference to yesterday's story) that Arnold Lehman, the director of the Brooklyn Museum, has led the church into the sin of wrath before, when, as director of the Baltimore Museum of Art, he co-sponsored a series of films on religious extremism that included Hell's Angel , a scathing critique of Mother Teresa written and narrated by Christopher Hitchens.

  • Rieff might have reread these passages before he wrote a scathing review of Thomas L. Friedman's The Lexus and the Olive Tree for the Los Angeles Times last month, in which he ridiculed Friedman for just this kind of naive extrapolation of the future from the present.

  • National Review has been scathing in its attacks on the GOP leadership, yet it has yet to be ostracized.

  • Over the weekend, "Titanic" director James "King of the World" Cameron began exercising the perks of his new office by writing a piece in the LAT in which he tried to fire the paper's lead film critic, author of two scathing reviews of the iceberg epic.


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