Sentences with phrase «never deigning»

We would never deign to provide a definitive list of horse names.

She has said more than once once that she knows my agenda but has never deigned to tell me what it is.

Although they thrive on a labor force rich in postdoctoral fellows (postdocs, or PDFs), Canadian universities have never deigned to write a postdoc job description.

Lanthimos never deigns to dramatize how society came to this sorry state, or why it hit on these particular practices.

You may be interested in a comment I made in the Foreword to the 3rd Edition of my Novel, OF STAVES AND SIGMAS: And although I would never deign for one second to liken myself to any of the... literary greats, it is nonetheless my desire to produce rich and complex literature that demands more than one sitting to kill.

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And the trees stand still, the wind whipping through the leaves as a constant reminder that whether we live or die, no matter what we do with our short time on Earth, the universe will go on, never even deigning to notice us as we rage against its silence.

The latter would never get regulatory approval, while the former wouldn't deign to support customers that didn't own Apple hardware.

Also, I'm no spring chicken, and the idea of waiting years for someone to deign to sign me up just has no appeal — I don't know how many years I've got in me, and I don't want to spend them waiting for a letter or e-mail that may never come.

A monarch who has never bought a work by a living artist has deigned to inflict on Paula Rego the patently ridiculous title of Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire.