Mr. Mitford, constantly endeavouring to pervert the simple honesty of Herodotus to a sanction of despotic governments, carefully slurs over this remarkable passage.
Why he thus slurs over the fact of the auxiliary forces will easily be perceived.
Sidenote: Slursand Accents Not Related] How should the beginning of slurs be accented?
Slurs and accents have nothing to do with each other.
Slurs indicate either a legato touch or the grouping of the notes.
The die was cast; she could not bear Selena's slurs and she would not.
She was furious at the whole affair, and she did her best to make Mattie's life a burden to her with slurs and thrusts.
Them bills had to be paid to keep outsiders slingin' slurs at us.
The staccatolike way in which the words are sung, the abrupt endings, and the long slurs covering as much as an octave remind one somewhat of Chinese singing.
The singer's voice frequently ascends to its highest natural tone and, after dwelling there for from three to six seconds, suddenly slurs down an octave, where it remains playing around three or four consecutive semitones.
With shameless audacity this society helped Mr. Peary carry along his press campaign by disseminating the cowardly slurs of Grosvenor, Chester, and others.
In going away for a rest it did not seem prudent to take the press into my confidence, a course which resulted in the mean slurs that I had abandoned my cause.
With periods, points, and tropes, he slurs his crimes.
Didn’t he start the rumpus by spurring me a plenty with slurs and insults?
Now I’m willing to take your word for it that you had some good reason for refusing to play football—even for swallowing the slurs and insults of Hunk Rollins and Berlin Barker.
The slurs are always taken with a down-stroke, using the upper third of the bow.
She still dealt in her former slurs and innuendoes; the leopard could not change its spots; no such radical reformation was naturally to be expected.
She had felt old and tired, of late; the monotony of toil had dulled her spirits; her mother's arrowy slurs had pierced and hurt her more than she guessed.
She promptly began a series of her old characteristic sarcasms and slurs as soon as Claire appeared.
Though Chopin slursthe last beat, it is there, nevertheless.
Klindworth rightfully slurs the duple group of eighths; Kullak tries for the same effect by different means.
The first notes, in one of my records, are upward slurs, and in two others the first note of the group slurs upward, but in all of the others all of the notes are of even pitch and not slurred.
A number of songs of the different forms begin with slurred notes, the slurs being about equally up or down in pitch.
In 6 records, ending in a higher pitch, the final trill slurs upward in pitch, suggesting the ending of a typical parula song in form.
And do you suppose that the type of Christianity which slurs over the explanation, and so does not know what to do with the facts, will ever do much in the world, or will ever touch men?
There is a base counterfeit of this apostolic example, which slurs over distinctive beliefs, and weakly tries to please everybody by differing from nobody.
They call me the ugly Dane or Deane and cast slurs upon my father and grandfather, saying they were traitors to the government.
In reference to the slurs of the lads, pay no attention to them and they will soon cease their annoyance.
They think before they fling back into the teeth of their oppressors some of the slurs and brutal characterizations which so frequently issue therefrom.
Pretending interest as a spectator, he would sometimes stand and watch, hearing the ribald jests, the slurs cast upon life, fortune, individuals in particular and in general by those who were wearily or hopelessly waiting.
In 1593 George Peele, in his Honour of the Garter, re-echoes the slurs against Shakespeare voiced by Greene in the previous year.
Chapman in several instances in this play echoes Greene's slurs against Shakespeare and, in the same manner as Peele in the Honour of the Garter, repeats the actual phrases and epithets used by Greene and Nashe.
It emphasizes the influence of intellectual environment upon the mind; it slurs over the fact that the environment involves a personal sharing in common experiences.
One statement will emphasize what anotherslurs over.
It puts a premium on certain things and slurs over others, and creates a mind whose seeming unity is forced and distorted.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "slurs" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
