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thrust upon
verb as in lavish
Example Sentences
"This is a class of people making laws, making policies that come right out of the Ivy League academies, and they're thrust upon you."
And embrace the pressure, expectations and title-winning window that has been thrust upon them.
In fact, because of the economic hit the arts took during and in the aftermath of the pandemic, Kellogg says, he worries that opera may be “regressing back to the status quo” after the momentum thrust upon it by the Black Lives Matter movement.
Anyone can have that destiny thrust upon them.”
Morgan received an Oscar nomination in 2007 for his screenplay of “The Queen,” which also dealt with the impact of Diana’s death on Queen Elizabeth II but did so within the compass of palaces and government offices; Diana was a ghostly presence who provided the dramatic tension animating Morgan’s real theme, the enormous burden of duty and responsibility thrust upon the lonely individual who was lucky and unlucky enough to live at Windsor Castle.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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