Sentences with phrase «scandalous world»

NPR — Extra Virginity: The Sublime And Scandalous World Of Olive Oil — Tom Mueller — An extract from his recent book on «olive oil and olive oil fraud, a story of globalization, deception, and crime in the food industry from ancient times to the present, and a powerful indictment of today's lax protections against fake and even toxic food products...»

The opener in the series delves into the scandalous world of gossip rags in Regency England.

Zac Efron is in talks to produce and possibly star in Straight To Hell, a darkly comic look at the scandalous world of investment banking, according to Empire Magazine.

Not exact matches

And it was there in the warm South Seas — the other side of the world from the city where men like Fly were «pent up in lath and plaster, tied to counters, nailed to benches, clinched to desks» — that at age twenty - three he found Nature's own paradise on an island in the Marquesas and in the arms of a woman he fictionalized as «Fayaway» in Typee (1846), the scandalous first novel he wrote upon his return.

As a college student, Charles Wesley remarked, «Christ Church is certainly the worst place in the world to begin a reformation; a man stands a very fair chance of being laughed out of his religion at his first setting out, in a place where» t is scandalous to have any at all.»

No, the one thing that separates what Jesus revealed to the world and what we see in all religious groups is one thing: indiscriminate, scandalous, shocking, outrageous, senseless, irrational, unfair, irreligious, ridiculous, absurd, offensive, infinite grace.

We look for ways to reveal the scandalous grace of God to the world, raising questions about justice, righteousness, forgiveness, and love.

Christianity has become a genuinely multicultural world religion, thriving profusely in the idioms of other languages and cultures, marked by a lively cross-cultural and interreligious sensibility, unburdened by the heavy artillery of doctors and councils, and otherwise undaunted by the scandalous paucity of money, trained leadership, infrastructure and resources.

scandalous division over something as basic and fundamentally simple as Christian initiation must stop; it devastatingly hinders the mission of the Church to evangelize the world according to the Great Commission of Christ; it keeps churches from sharing each other's Christian riches to their mutual great impoverishment.

Perhaps some of those within the Church may delight in such scandalous disregard for the claims of truth; perhaps some who are in retreat from the world may come to embrace a Christianity so presented.

Making our spending an ongoing commitment matters because the scale of poverty in the world remains scandalous.

One of the many scandalous legacies of the outgoing Government is the way in which they destroyed our private pension system, which used to be the envy of the world.

It also seems the world of dating is leaving behind the days of scandalous relationships.

A number of other major restorations will have their World Premieres at the Festival: Carol Reed's atmospheric Graham Greene adaptation of OUR MAN IN HAVANA (1959), set in Cuba at the start of the Cold War, makes timely viewing as US / Cuba relations thaw; Ken Russell's reworking of D.H. Lawrence scandalous classic WOMEN IN LOVE (1970) stars Oliver Reed, Alan Bates and Glenda Jackson and shows two couple's contrasting searches for love, and was restored by the BFI National Archive working alongside cinematographer Billy Williams; A MAN FOR ALL SEASONS (1966) is directed by Fred Zinnemann from a script by great British screenwriter, Robert Bolt from Bolt's play about Sir Thomas More, a perfect companion piece to Wolf Hall; Henry Fonda stars in the ripe - for - discovery WARLOCK (1959), a seething study of vengeance and repressed sexuality in a Utah mining outpost; and Bryan Forbes» THE RAGING MOON (1971) starring Malcolm McDowell and Nanette Newman in a tender story between two young people in wheelchairs which was ahead of its time in its attempts to change attitudes to disability.

This year everyone famous wishes they were dead,» said Mulaney nodding at the scandalous year of sexual misconduct allegations plaguing the industry and the world in general.

Frequently filming his heroines through half - concealed doorways and rain - pelted windows, and employing medium and long shots as well as closeups, Haynes uses these obscuring, distancing visual devices with an unerring sense of thematic purpose, slowly pulling us into a veiled world where scandalous truths are hidden in plain sight, and only a privileged (or cursed) few can see them clearly.

Current events, such as a scandalous pregnancy or a theft, and criticisms of local and world leaders and politicians were also used as a source of inspiration for other dances.

Midway has passed along seven new scandalous screenshots for This is Vegas, the open world adventure / lifestyle game due in stores sometime this fall for Xbox 360, Playstation 3 and the PC.

Brandi Chastain became an unlikely feminist icon when she ceremoniously ripped off her jersey after scoring the winning goal in the 1999 World Cup - revealing her sports bra in what would become an unforgettable, yet somehow scandalous, moment.

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The State Department's decision to ask a museum to organize the pavilion rather than let a committee decide is viewed by many in the art world as undemocratic and scandalous.

Embarrassment, I think, is behind a lot of the lack of political will to deal properly with the world's scandalous sanitation situation.

The efforts we've made to criminalize the act of checking out are scandalous and in a different world, one without ethanol subsidies or ear marks, we might see an end to it.

«NIPCC's CCR - II report should open the eyes of world leaders who have fallen prey to the scandalous climate dictates by the IPCC.

Though I've spent the past three - and - a-half years here trying to uncover salacious little tidbits or outrageous controversies in the legal world to enlighten or entertain readers, I'm disappointed to report that there's no scandalous backstory to my departure.

If they can deliver on the promise of regulation improving the sometimes scandalous Bitcoin market, they might just achieve their goal of becoming «the world's largest exchange.»

Though its roots may be traced back as far as the pioneering era of sexuality in India, and later to the Enlightenment (Rousseau, Marquis de Sade) and the Victorian era (Algernon Charles Swinburne's scandalous Poems and Ballads of 1866), it was a development in the modern world which saw the significant loss of power by the values of a morality rooted in the orthodox religious traditions such as the Christian tradition and the rise of permissive societies, of attitudes that were accepting of greater sexual freedom and experimentation that spread all over the world and were captured in the concept of «free love».