embattlement

Example Sentences

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Set in and around a lakeside town school where a mother’s righteous clash with a new teacher parallels the growing bond between two outsider kids, this exquisitely rendered work from Kore-eda is a delicate web of compassion and embattlement: three separate views of one stretch of momentous time, spun and re-spun with care and craft.

From Los Angeles Times

More recent events have contributed to a sense of embattlement in the Black community.

From Seattle Times

For disparate Germans to come together required a common sense of embattlement.

From Washington Post

Accurate reporting and erroneous articles alike bred a deep sense of embattlement in Palo Alto.

From New York Times

Filmed by the great Romanian cinematographer and frequent Loznitsa collaborator Oleg Mutu in long, patient takes that intensify each sequence’s brittle contrasts, “Donbass” coalesces into an unflinching dispatch from a state of embattlement both region-specific and 21st century-pervasive.

From Los Angeles Times