Borgia

How To Use Borgia In A Sentence

• Machiavelli admired Borgia for enforcing the summary punishment of evildoing without incurring the hatred of his subjects. Matthew Yglesias » Luce & Machiavelli on Leadership
• Cesare Borgia, the son of the pope Ezio kills near the end of ACII, is laying siege. Kotaku
• I happen to know every detail of the hellish contrivance, and I can tell you it will be the most finished piece of blackguardism since the Borgias. The Thirty-Nine Steps
• He was clad in mail and leather, and from his lance fluttered the bannerol bearing the Borgia arms, which had announced his quality to The Shame of Motley: being the memoir of certain transactions in the life of Lazzaro Biancomonte, of Biancomonte, sometime fool of the court of Pesaro
• At that time faddists of various persuasions proliferated up and down the Village: anarchists who dutifully went home every night to their mothers’ kitchens, a Hungarian monarchist with his own following, free-verse poets who eschewed capital letters, cultists who sat rapturously for hours in orgone boxes, cloudy Swedenborgians, and all the rest. What Happened to the Baby?
• On the other hand, thousands of evangelical Christians, spiritualists and Swedenborgians continued to affirm that they had literally heard God's voice.
• The year 1965 was a watershed: she replaced the indisposed Marilyn Horne in a Carnegie Hall performance of Donizetti's Lucrezia Borgia.
• The new film deals with the infamous Borgia family which produced no less than two saintly Popes in Italy during the 14th and 15th century.
• Cardinal Borgia had been vice-chancellor, or papal lawyer, for several Popes. THE FAMILY
• Buffalo Bill used a Springfield which he called Lucretia Borgia, and he preferred firing from horseback. THE AMERICAN WEST