Sentences with phrase «scorns good»

In When Wall Street Scorns Good Companies, a Fortune magazine article from October 2000, writer Geoffrey Colvin asked of Darwin's darlings, «So why are all these firms still independent?»

Following the plight of adolescent Chanda (Khomotso Manyaka, in an extraordinary first performance) as she remains a pillar of strength whilst surrounded by her sickly mother (Lerato Mvelase, Umkhungo) and step - father (Aubrey Poolo), scorned best friend (Keaobaka Makanyane) and judgemental neighbour (Lerato Mvelase, Hotel Rwanda), the film tells a tale of the strength of one determined teen that has an impact upon the outlook of an entire community.

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Beard and moustache growth was rampant, especially in India where bare faces were scorned as being juvenile and un-manly, as well as in Arab countries where moustaches and beards were likewise associated with power.

Mamaw isn't educated and in fact scorns «elites» but knows that if J.D. is to get ahead he must do well in school and go to college.

Because true creativity requires persistence, resilience, and a willingness to face other's scorn, and the best way to build those mental muscles is to exercise them.

It may be fashionable in liberal circles to scorn money, but «it drives the world for better or for worse,» says Palihapitiya.

Wow.Mr.Limbaugh's belated «apology «aside, I find myself stunned at the level of vitriol, rudeness, and sheer hatred we seem determined to spew at each across the web nowadays; its advent has obviously unleashed some deeply - buried, long - simmering resevoirs of hate, scorn, and opprobium that has finally boiled over among many of us.If we spent even a third of that energy seeking solutions to righting the badly - listing ship - of - state called America... Well.The politicians aren't going to do it, fellow citizens.As clever as we think we are venting over folly and nonsense on these websites, we had better get busy getting our nation's affairs in order, or we'll become the laughingstock of the world, with tiny,no - name third world countries thumbing their noses at us and telling us to «Get lost, America, you silly, Hollywood has - been.

«Well, you may scorn me, turn your back on me,» Cash croons.

Nietzsche's scorn for «modern ideas» made a profound impression on his admirers: «This book [Beyond Good and Evil],» he said, «is a criticism of modernity, embracing the modern sciences, arts, even politics, together with certain indications as to a type that would be the reverse of modern man, for as little like him as possible: a noble, yea - saying man.»

They laugh at Christians with scorn for our «hope» and «faith» and talk about how no one needs a savior because we're all basically good... also based on no evidence.

I learned this not from a class in feminist studies, but from Jesus — who was brought into the world by a woman whose obedience changed everything; who revealed his identity to a scorned woman at a well; who defended Mary of Bethany as his true disciple, even though women were prohibited from studying under rabbis at the time; who obeyed his mother; who refused to condemn the woman caught in adultery to death; who looked to women for financial and moral support, even after the male disciples abandoned him; who said of the woman who anointed his feet with perfume that «wherever this gospel is preached throughout the world, what she has done will also be told, in memory of her»; who bantered with a Syrophoenician woman, talked theology with a Samaritan woman, and healed a bleeding woman; who appeared first before women after his resurrection, despite the fact that their culture deemed them unreliable witnesses; who charged Mary Magdalene with the great responsibility of announcing the start of a new creation, of becoming the Apostle to the Apostles.

And beyond moral indignation at liturgical substitutes for goodness, the scorn which some prophetic passages pour on animal sacrifices suggests intellectual contempt as well.

It is interesting to note in this respect that in Whitehead's judgment the Jews «conceived one of the most immoral Gods ever imagined» and that he endorses Thomas Hardy's remark in Tess of the D'Urbervilles «But although to visit the sins of the fathers upon the children may be a morality good enough for divinities, it is scorned by average human nature.

His parables frequently end with a «punch line» that presents a challenge to conventional expectation: the scorned Samaritan is the «good» one who proves neighbor to the victim on the Jericho Road; those who come to work late at the harvest are provided the same reward as those who toiled all day; the wayward prodigal son is the one who is feasted; the prayer of a repentant sinner is more acceptable to God than that of a righteous Pharisee.9 Shorter sayings make the same point: A camel could pass through a needle's eye more easily than a person of great wealth can enter into God's inbreaking realm (Mt 19:24).

One man wrote this: «Our patience is improved, by bearing calmly the indignities he strives to load us with; our charity is enflamed by returning good for ill, and by pardoning and forgiving the injuries he does us; our prudence is increased by wisely managing ourselves in our demeanor, so as not to give him opportunity to wound us; our fortitude is strengthened by the manful repelling of scorns, and by giving occasions for the display of an undaunted courage in all our actions; our industry is strengthened and confirmed by watching all his attacks and stratagems; and by our contriving how we may best acquit ourselves in all our contests.»

Men go to God when he is sore bested, Find him poor and scorned, Without shelter or bread, Whelmed under weight of the wicked, the weak, the dead; Christians stand by God in his hour of grieving.25

«At the best the Founding Fathers only passively believed in organized Christianity and at worst they scorned and ridiculed it.»

in which Wright badly mischaracterizes the response of the United States to the September 11th attacks, as well as the views of President Bush and then - Prime Minister Tony Blair, declared that the 2006 mid-term elections was an example of God «calling to account those who abuse powers,» showed a disturbing tendency toward moral equivalence between jihadists and those who are fighting to defeat them, and directed virtually all of his scorn against the United States and Great Britain rather than al Qaeda, the Taliban, and the regime of Saddam Hussein.

Like others, Crooker notes that some of the most notorious serial offenders were ordained before Vatican II, in «the good old days» when seminaries insisted on obedience to the Magisterium, scorned effeminacy, and were strict about «particular friendships.»

The neglect and scorn of others confirms their sense of cbosenness, as well as their disdain for the main currents of American life.

In 2012 the lines between the sacred and the profane will get even more blurry: Scientists will religiously maintain their search for the elusive God particle (they won't find it); evangelical sports superhero and Denver Bronco quarterback Tim Tebow will continue to be both an inspiration to the faithful and an object of scorn to skeptics (he will be watching, not playing in, the Super Bowl); at least one well - known religious leader or leading religious politician will be brought down by a sex scandal (let's hope all our leaders have learned a lesson from former Rep. Anthony Weiner and stay away from sexting); and the «nones» - those who don't identify with one religion - will grow even more numerous and find religious meanings in unexpected places (what TV show will become this season's «Lost»?)

Justice Kennedy's Windsor opinion on the merits deserves all the scorn heaped on it by Justice Scalia's dissent, as well as all of Justice Alito's penetrating observations in his separate dissent that «what is marriage?»

We as christians need to show a better way, but how can we when the Church is divided (heretics) no wonder other beliefs laugh and scorn us.

In other news, our team seems to be rounding nicely into form, with a productive off - season and several new additions already settling in, there seems to be a renewed sense of confidence in the air... our well - oiled machine has conducted business again early this year, so we can just sit back, kick our feet up and watch all those other suckers scramble to make panic moves in the 11th hour... of course, we need to tie up a few loose ends but our team of savvy negotiators, under the tutelage of our faithful leader, will perform their usual magic with ample time to spare... I have to laugh when I look around the soccer world and see all those teams look upon us with envy and scorn as they struggle to mimic our seemingly infallible business model... thank goodness the powers that be had the foresight and fortitude to resist the temptations of the modern football era... instead of listening to all the experts and simply taking the easy way out by making the necessary improvements on the field and in the front office, we chose the path never traveled... we are truly pioneers in our field... sometimes you just have to have faith in the people that have always conducted themselves in a respectful and honest fashion... most fans aren't so fortunate, they will never know what it's like to follow a team that treats everyone in and around the club as if they were an extended member of the family... all for one I say... so when you wake up this morning, please try not to gloat when you see rival fans pacing back and forth waiting for their respective teams to pull the usual panic buys, just say nothing and be thankful that it isn't you... like I've always said, this is why you stay the course... this is when the real benefits of having someone in charge for over 2 decades really pays off... have a great day fellow Gunners

Adopting a well - organised, compact and intelligent format for your team is nothing to scorn.

It highlighted the good, threw scorn at critics and claimed we didn't know the whole story.

Nasri would do well to remember his form the season prior to last wasn't good enough to earn him a spot on the French National team for last summer's World Cup (said the scorned Arsenal fan).

And there was plenty of scorn from the disposable - diapering crowd online, who apparently thought all cloth diapering mothers were tree - hugging freaks who did everything the hard way because it made us feel good.

I will join her in scorning the hospital nursery's (or well - intentioned grandmother or babysitter's) attempts to fill up a baby with formula.

And so the pattern for the rest of the week was set: a good dose of Scotch scorn.

Despised by the far left, scorned by the far right, pushed aside by liberal progressives, mocked by tea party conservatives, we hold what may well be the most assaulted political position in America today.

Maude also scorned Whitehall courses based, he said, on how to get the best out of the public expenditure process or protect the permanent secretary's position rather than on thinking about the taxpayer.

The Mayor of London is at his best in The Telegraph this morning, pouring scorn on Gordon Brown's «utterly tragic» 50p tax hike:

In a relatively well - received speech, the health secretary poured scorn on Daniel Hannan, the Tory MEP who appeared on American news networks to deride the NHS as a 60 - year mistake.

He also knows good government types will forever scorn his use of hundreds of thousands of dollars from his leftover campaign funds to pay for four years of criminal defense attorneys.

No scorn, no «any job is better than none» lecture.

Perhaps, she thought, Emma might have the best of both worlds: an operation to protect her from scorn, coupled with family honesty.

He is also one of archaeology's most controversial figures, winning praise from foreign archaeologists, who say he has done much to modernize an antiquated system, as well as scorn from those who say he claims credit for others» discoveries.

Her theories about why mothers — as well as fathers — behave as they do brought her scorn, and then respect, as one of the most radical evolutionary thinkers of our day.

Yes, men like Barbara's date are well deserving of your scorn but they are not the whole of what the sex has to offer!

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«Rebel» starts in 1939, when Salinger is an unknown, coddled by his mother (Hope Davis) and scorned by his father (Victor Garber), a prosperous merchant who says things like «Meat and cheese have been very good to this family.»

And yet, amid all that overdue and well - deserved scorn, the lone aspect of Deadpool 2 that is treated with gravid, wet - eyed sincerity — the thing the film wants us to care most deeply about, that acts as the plot's triggering action — is itself the biggest, oldest, dumbest and most useless superhero - genre cliche of them all.

The lackluster performance did not lower expectations for Princess Diaries 2, which in the face of critical scorn, came close to matching its considerably better predecessor's strong box office numbers.

Too good - looking to be dismissed entirely, not bad enough to be worthy of outright scorn, but not good enough to watch, either.

After skipping last week, Twitchvision is back with a look at Guillermo Del Toro's big budget Robots - on - Monsters romp, Pacific Rim, as well as a look at the fabulous doc 20 Feet From Stardom and the quite exceptional (if needlessly scorned...

The game was clearly made on a budget, which is nothing to be scorned (the show on which it's based started from humble beginnings as well.)

There is real tension to this sequel as Tim Burton delves deep into biblical imagery to bring us a Penguin that wants to kill all Gotham City's firstborns for having scorned him (he well, uh, looks different - bit like a mutated Ebenezer Scrooge).

Short Films and Feature Animation Alê Abreu — «Boy and the World,» «Cosmic Boy» Line K. Andersen — «The Croods,» «Monsters vs Aliens» Bruce Anderson — «Rio 2,» «Rio» Graham Annable — «The Boxtrolls,» «ParaNorman» Guillaume Aretos — «Puss in Boots,» «Shrek the Third» Serena Armitage — «Stutterer,» «Scorned» Sanjay Bakshi — «The Good Dinosaur,» «Monsters University» Maxwell Boas — «Kung Fu Panda 3,» «Rise of the Guardians» Lydia Bottegoni — «Hotel Transylvania,» «Surf's Up» Rebecca Wilson Bresee — «Zootopia,» «Frozen» Mark Burton — «Shaun the Sheep Movie,» «Gnomeo & Juliet» Chris Butler — «ParaNorman,» «Coraline» Clément Calvet — «Cafard,» «Song of the Sea» Tom Cardone — «Rio 2,» «Dr. Seuss» Horton Hears a Who!»

Release: Friday, March 4, 2016 (limited)[Theater] Written by: Terrence Malick Directed by: Terrence Malick The cinematic poetry of Terrence Malick continues in his cryptic Knight of Cups, an offering that may well epitomize everything his admirers adore and everything detractors feel scorned by for not «getting.»