Citations:slings and arrows

English citations of slings and arrows

Noun: hardships or adverse circumstances

• 2010 December 17, Allison Arieff, “Opinion: Can Airports Be Fun?”, in The New York Times‎^[1], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-07-16:

  Now that we’re entering the thick of the holiday travel season and we’ve been groped, scanned, forced to eat a Cinnabon and otherwise made to suffer the slings and arrows of air travel — here’s something rarely offered of late: a positive story about airports.

• 2016 December 22, Chris Lee, “Take caution when traveling with Tom Hanks, he doesn’t often get where he’s going”, in Los Angeles Times‎^[2], Los Angeles, Calif.: Los Angeles Times Communications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-06-15:

  Yet audiences just don’t seem to tire of his travel trials by fire, the actor’s unique ability to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune while braving the open road/seas/air (or, for that matter, making celestial perambulations 137 nautical miles above the planet).

• 2018 February 19, Nicola Davis, “Scientists unravel secrets of ‘superagers’”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian‎^[3], London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2021-10-23:

  Researchers say studies show that superagers appear to be more resilient to the slings and arrows of life, and are more extroverted and less neurotic.

• 2019 December 19, Sung-Yoon Lee, “Meet Kim Jong Un, ‘King of Korea’ — antithesis of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark”, in The Hill‎^[4], Washington, D.C.: Nexstar Media Group, Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-04-09:

  And there’s the rub. At that moment of vexation, Washington may breathe rhetorical fire and call for more stringent sanctions. But, after a few months, chances are the U.S. will determine it’s nobler to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune than to risk self-immolation by taking arms against a nuclear-armed Kim wearing an antic disposition.

• 2021 October 17, J[ames] Harvie Wilkinson III, “Opinion: Supreme Court term limits wouldn’t solve anything”, in The Washington Post‎^[5], Washington, D.C.: The Washington Post Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2021-11-20:

  It seems inevitable that an elite institution in a democratic republic will suffer the slings and arrows of populist discontent. The wonder of it all may be that the institution of lifetime tenure has persisted for so long. Proponents of changing that rule may take satisfaction in humbling the justices ever so slightly, or believe that instituting term limits would forestall more radical change, such as expanding the size of the court.

• 2022 March 12, Maureen Dowd, “Opinion: Zelensky Answers Hamlet”, in The New York Times‎^[6], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-06-25:

  As Drew Lichtenberg, resident dramaturge at the Shakespeare Theater Company, points out, Hamlet’s disquiet about suicide and dying has a resonance in the part of the world now bearing the slings and arrows of a demented dictator.

• 2023 January 10, Darrin M. McMahon, “Happiness In America Isn’t What It Used to Be”, in TIME‎^[7], New York, N.Y.: Time USA, LLC., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-06-14:

  That was a belief that the founders, like other groups in the 18th century including enlightened Christians, challenged outright. Neither a vindictive God nor the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune stood in the way of the human pursuit of satisfaction. The world was amenable to our understanding and control, and with foresight and planning we could make our happiness in it.

• 2023 March 1, Julian Lucas, “Giancarlo Esposito Controls the Chaos”, in The New Yorker‎^[8], New York, N.Y.: Condé Nast Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-06-05:

  In every role, he [Giancarlo Esposito] mesmerizes audiences with a coiled intensity that he credits to military school, the slings and arrows of a volatile profession, and a lifelong commitment to mindfulness. "My karmic journey is to be told what to do and accept that and do it the best I can,” he said. “I realize one of my strengths is to control the chaos."

Noun: harsh criticism or personal attacks

• 2012 January 30, Hadley Freeman, “Wearing legwarmers is a win/win situation”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian‎^[9], London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2021-05-10:

  Being a style leader requires not just taste but courage. You need to brace yourself for the slings and arrows of outrageous people who cock a sceptical eyebrow at your daring revival of looks from the 80s that even Salt'n'Pepa would blush to see again.

• 2012 February 27, Carolyn Butler, “Parents wonder when a sick child is not too sick to send to school”, in The Washington Post‎^[10], Washington, D.C.: The Washington Post Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2017-04-21:

  To send your snot-nosed, hacking child to school or not: That is the question. Whether 'tis nobler to miss yet another round of critical meetings, deadlines or social obligations to nurse him at home or suffer the slings and arrows of angry fellow parents .... Well, you get the picture.

• 2012 September 27, Peter Manseau, “Is This the Nastiest Election Ever?”, in The New York Times‎^[11], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-06-25:

  Given the stakes, the most surprising part of our perpetually dirty political system is that all the slings and arrows that once cut so deeply may later seem merely funny, or only instructive. Today’s fighting words will be reduced to tomorrow’s interesting anecdotes, but the true questions at the heart of every presidential election will remain.

• 2015 October 14, Cara Buckley, “Steven Spielberg on the Cold War and other Hollywood front lines”, in The New York Times‎^[12], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-07-03:

  [James Britt] Donovan could work in tremendous secrecy at a time when there was no social media. Today it'd be a lot harder to find a man that would stand up for his principles and suffer the slings and arrows of the haters on social media.