How To Use factious In A Sentence
- What's instructive is to look at how the Obama campaign responded: challenge the facticity and factiousness of the ACORN story -- and get it explained about how ridiculous it is, and let the pictures of the McCain/Palin supporters diffuse themselves across the i-net. Colin Powell Endorses Obama
- The whole of the first act consists of one emphatic jeremiad by Cicero, about the desperate condition of Rome as it then was, its factiousness, its servility, -- a jeremiad which is continued at the end of the act, by the chorus, in rhymed stanzas. The Critics Versus Shakspere A Brief for the Defendant
- The speech is aimed at the self-will and factiousness of Achilles and his disloyalty to Agamemnon. The Art of Letters
- Politically he was naïvely ambitious and factious; he owes the epithet ‘Good’ only to his patronage of men of letters, including Lydgate and Capgrave.
- Accordingly he repaired to the Hotel de Ville, and gave to the Municipal Council so distinct an account of his measures, and of his reason for taking them, that, though Danton and some of his more factious colleagues reproached him for exhibiting what they called a needless distrust of the people, the majority of the Council approved of his conduct, and dismissed him to return to his duties. The Life of Marie Antoinette
- Eloquence, will, from these steppes, likelie enough presume, by like pride, to mount hier, to the misliking of greater matters: that is either in Religion, to haue a dissentious head, or in the common wealth, to haue a factious hart: as I knew one The Scholemaster
- ‘So easy still it proves in factious times, with public zeal to cancel private crimes’, wrote John Dryden.
- I hold that whosoever sets up factious opposition to his leader factiously opposes his own safety. Anabasis
- The passengers were sympathetic with one another, notwithstanding their recent factiousness, and were especially kind to a poor little brown baby, which they handed round and nursed by turns, but the heat, the filth, and the stench of the ship defied description. The Life of Sir Richard Burton
- Although the 10 songs on The Woods include some of Sleater-Kinney's least subtle speechifying - the factiousness of ‘Entertain’ being a case in point - their playing has never been more inspired, or better captured.
