Religion they have none; they never attend mass, nor confess themselves, and never employ the names of God, Christ and the Virgin, but in imprecation and blasphemy. From what I learnt from them it appeared that their ancestors had some belief in metempsychosis, but they themselves laughed at the idea, and were decidedly of opinion that the soul perished when the body ceased to breathe; and the argument which they used was rational enough, so far as it impugned metempsychosis: 'We have been wicked and miserable enough in this life,' they said; 'why should we live again?'英文原著 · 《Letters》
No attempt was made to controvert the opinion of an ignorant critic: his veracity only was impugned. The powers of vaticination possessed by such judges of drama can be fairly tested in the career of Salome on the European stage, apart from the opera. In an introduction to the English translation published by Mr. John Lane it is pointed out that Wilde's confusion of Herod Antipas (Matt. 1) with Herod the Great (Matt. 1) and Herod Agrippa I. (Acts xii. 23) is intentional, and follows a mediaeval convention.英文原著 · 《Oscar Wilde Miscellaneous》
And yet, such are the barren distinctions of words,
with which men fancy that they assert an important truth; even while the
formulae they maintain are identical with those which they impugn.英文原著 · 《Shorter Logic》
And now, as these modern experiences cannot be impugned, so, least it might be objected that these things (gathered out of ancient writers, which wrote so many years past) might serve little to prove this passage by the north of America, because both America and India were to them then utterly unknown; to remove this doubt, let this suffice, that Aristotle (who was 300 years before Christ) named the Indian Sea. Also Berosus (who lived 330 before Christ) hath these words, GANGES IN INDIA.英文原著 · 《Voyages in Search of the North-West Passage》
"But you won't pay them enough to live on!" The very fact that the words were spoken without any trace of rancor merely made this statement of indisputable truth obnoxious to the man, who was stung to more savage resentment in asserting his impugned self-righteousness.英文原著 · 《Within the Law》
- It's in my purview -- - You are here to keep the Visigoths outside of the city walls, not to impugn judgment of the Caesar.美剧 · 《Billions》
Well, Nigel, when you impugn the life-affirming muds of Baden-Baden, You're on the precipice of the equivalent of someone taking a shit on the royal muds of England.美剧 · 《Suits》
And even if you can impugn these five witnesses, your way still goes to a verdict.美剧 · 《Suits》
But, Naomi, if you're gonna impugn another lawyer's character, you should know that in the eyes of a jury, it doesn't say great things about your own.美剧 · 《Suits》