Attila

How To Use Attila In A Sentence

• Socialists who stressed the struggle of the poor, like the poet Attila József, were a minority voice.
• In pt ii. of the _Niebelungen Lied_, he sees his sons and liegemen struck down without making the least effort to save them, and is as unlike the Attila of history as a "hector" is to the noble Trojan "the protector of mankind. Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook
• Well, I suppose if you work for the Diaz-Balart brothers, anybody to the left of Attila the Hun is a flaming liberal. Showing Them the Money
• Attila - I've managed to totally cure myself of the racist and homophobic humour that was everywhere in my youth - and I no longer find lavatorial humour to be funny. Heather Mills.
• A covey of quail took off, too, and I began feeling like Attila the Hun tromping through the forest.
• Herbert states that Attila is represented on an old medallion with a teraph, or a head, on his breast; and the same writer adds: "We know, from the _Hamartigenea_ of Prudentius, that Nimrod, with a snaky-haired head, was the object of adoration of the heretical followers of Marcion; and the same head was the palladium set up by Antiochus Epiphanes over the gates of Antioch, though it has been called the visage of Charon. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 04
• The Nomination and Compensation Committee of the Board of Directors proposes that the current members of the Board Adine Anne Brunila, Grate Axén, Veli-Matti Mattila, Eira Palin-Lehtinen, Jukka Pekkarinen, Christoffer Taxell, Matti Vuoria and Björn Wahlroos are re-elected for a term continuing until the close of the next Annual General Meeting. Reuters: Press Release
• Those lunatics believe Bill Buckley was a liberal and anyone to the left of Attila the Hun is a commie. Think Progress » Scott Brown Claims That The Stimulus Has Not Created ‘One New Job’
• Socialists who stressed the struggle of the poor, like the poet Attila József, were a minority voice.
• Attila, therefore, in his efforts to bring about the wars 185 long ago instigated by the bribe of Gaiseric, sent ambassadors into Italy to the Emperor Valentinian to sow strife between the Goths and the Romans, thinking to shatter by civil discord those whom he could not crush in battle. The Origin and Deeds of the Goths