far-fetchedly

Example Sentences

• "At first glance, Benjamin Britten's opera The Rape of Lucretia epitomises an art-form that has for 400 years fetishised victimhood, objectified women, and rewarded their sexual activity with death. (Consensuality is rarely a material factor.) But in this opera there is no sense ­ however far-fetchedly misogynistic ­ of the victim having "asked for it"."
• "In the course of his argument Fish does some close analysis of particular texts, sometimes brilliantly, sometimes far-fetchedly, as when he wants the word "raised" in "Paradise Lost" to mean not only what it seems to mean but also its opposite, "razed"; or when he finds, in Milton's account of the war in heaven, too unwieldy a bundle of sexual puns."
• ""She's a scream." Apply it to the British writer Fay Weldon, because her novels can be far-fetchedly funny and because what the comedy fetches is a far-ranging order of women's fury. Fury at men, conspicuously, and also at themselves, which is why she has been called both feminist and antifeminist."
• "That the poisoned Alexander Litvinenko is perceived as a "traitor" in Russia is beyond doubt. But nobody has so far presented evidence that he was actually poisoned by the FSB or, more far-fetchedly, on Mr Putin's orders."
• "Raymond Gunt is not a nice person. He might just be, as more than one character in Douglas Coupland’s 14th novel remarks, the Worst. Person. Ever. He’s far-fetchedly horrible. A grotesque. A supernova of bad karmic energy."