Sentences with phrase «chafed against the limits»

He chafed against the limits of social propriety by welcoming prostitutes and adulterers, crooks and outcasts into his gracious presence.

She recalls another time when abstraction was chafing against its limits, in what Barbara Rose briefly heralded as «abstract illusionism.»

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After a bunch of billionaires basically brokered this year's change on mayoral term limits, New Yorkers are already chafing against the feeling that we live in some sort of pseudo-democratic oligarchy.

Throughout further pictures like The Royal Tenenbaums, The Life Aquatic, The Darjeeling Limited and his animated take on Roald Dahl's Fantastic Mr Fox, he honed a signature style, where the whimsy of romantics chafes against wittily stilted production design.