Sentences with phrase «as groveling»

Dear Terrible and Beneficent Goddess of Publishing — This may accurately reflect a writer's feelings about the balance of power during the submission process, but might be perceived as groveling.

In spite of these three doctrines, a considerable slice of Christian theology through the centuries has pictured man as groveling in depravity, total or partial.

Not exact matches

The Obama administration could have groveled and apologized as much as they wanted about the unfortunate fact that Americans are allowed mock religions.

Stephen Fry speaking about atheists: «The glory — anything — we take credit for what is great about man and we take blame for what is dreadful about man, we neither grovel or apologise at the feet of a god, or are so infantile as to project the idea that we once had a father as human beings and we therefore should have a divine one too.

I read this and come to the same conclusion as most Americans... the Obama Administration has destroyed our economy to the point that even our elders have to sell themselves out and grovel for money.

While his authorial modesty might elicit our admiration, we should not attribute it entirely to Shakespeare's personality, even if we accept the sonnets as autobiographical, where the persona of the poet can at times seem to grovel, even to the point of self «contempt.

God, at times, has been pictured as a mighty emperor and the worshipper as the most humble subject The traditional prayers of confession in many churches, often dating from the time of the Reformation, seem today to be too groveling.

Those who have it spurn dignities and honors, privileges and advantages, preferring, as I said in a former lecture, to grovel on the common level before the face of God.

Within such churches and religious community, the «you are unworthy of god's love but he love you anyway if you will grovel enough but you are never going to grovel enough to please him etc etc etc actually get's casts as «God = I, we, the church.

Limbaugh could have stanched the bleeding by practicing what historian Susan Wise Bauer has described as «the art of the public grovel.»

Furthermore, there is nothing whatever to be said for a groveling attitude before God, as if he were a rigorous moralist or a tyrannical master.

yea he's got one transfer right so far... if he gets the Lemar transfer right as well I think Fatboy will owe him one big grovelling apology?

But L'Equipe report that the former Barcelona ace issued a grovelling apology to his team - mates at training on Wednesday, with countryman and skipper Thiago Silva acting as translator.

In his first session as majority leader, he helped ensure that Mr. de Blasio, no friend of Senate Republicans, will need to go to Albany next year to grovel again for the renewal of mayoral control of public schools.

I also worry that arriving at a judgment about Weiner or Spitzer — as if they were groveling exes — is way too compelling a question, compared to differentiating a crowded field of Democratic mayoral hopefuls, or learning the first thing about Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer.

As a connoisseur of forced apologies — Michael Howard once sent him to Liverpool to grovel for criticising the city's «mawkish sentimentality» — the Mayor of London is forgiving.

Adding a little trim to the shirt and grovel shoes could make this group the trendiest wear in Pakistan at this moment as most of the designers as the choice this kind of fashion.

Elizabeth Hurley portrays Sandra, a beautiful Englishwoman groveling (drug free) for her own position as a high - powered TV executive.

As Brown's aged, long - estranged mama, Davis — with the aid of terrific star Chadwick Boseman and some pretty expert makeup artists whose numbers Clint Eastwood should find immediately — manages to reinvigorate a set - up familiar from any number of tortured artist - biopics (i.e. absentee parent comes groveling years later to abandoned child - turned - superstar at the peak of his fame) with the same smart, electrifying clarity of character and tender yet tough - minded emotionalism that should be long - recognizable by now to anyone who has seen Doubt or Antwone Fisher or Solaris or Won't Back Down, or else Fences, King Hedley II, or Seven Guitars on Broadway, or, more likely, witnessed Davis» extraordinary, one - woman rescue job on Taylor's The Help.

Not an army, or a gathering of many, as I'd learn was the case with his kind, but just one, one beastman like no other, separated from the rest of his kind, Keeyaw of the lank figure and mournful mustaches, low, groveling, hunkered over from the weight of his implements and the white, colorless beard that hung from his face in a way he had no control over.

If you have missed a payment, pay it as soon as possible and consider calling and doing the honorable thing: groveling.

Even when we thought we would be groveling yesterday as the swell was fading, we got 2 of our simi «secret spots» and were getting barreled right and left, and to ourselves!

Not only did Wagner feel pressured into resigning as the editor of the journal, but he found it necessary to issue a groveling public apology to TRENBERTH of all people, who had nothing to do with the journal, the reviews, etc..

A bag of wind (1878) · A blatherskite (1890) · A cowardly slanderer and a bully (1907) · A dim - witted saboteur (1956) · A parliamentary babe and suckling (1890) · A parliamentary pugilist and political bully (1875) · A servile follower of the government (1878) · A trickster (1919) · Above the truth (1962) · Abusing his position in the House (1877) · Ass (1970) · Attempted to misrepresent (1961) · Attempting to distort the facts as he had in the past (1956) · B and B gang (1964) · Bullshit (1973) · Canadian Mussolini (1964) · Cheap political way (1960) · Coming into the world by accident (1886) · Crook (1971) · Deceive (1977) · Deceived (1960) · Deliberate distortion (1968) · Deliberate falsehood (1961) · Deliberate malignity (1962) · Deliberately deceived (1960) · Deliberately distorted (1972) · Deliberately misleading (1977) · Deliberately misled (1959) · Deliberately misstated the truth (1960) · Deliberately trying to pervert (1960) · Demagogue (1963) · Devoid of honour (1960) · Dictatorial attitude (1961) · Disgracing the House (1896) · Dishonest (1959) · Dishonest answers (1968) · Dishonest insinuations (1960) · Dishonest performance (1960) · Does not have a spine (1971) · Evil genius (1962) · Fabricated a statement (1961) · Fabrication (1959) · False (1961) · False representations (1975) · False statement (1961) · Falsehood (1976) · Falsify (1964) · Fraud (1960) · Fraudulent character (1962) · Grovelling in the dirt in order to get an office (1900) · Has not got the guts (1959) · Honourable only by courtesy (1880) · Hypocrites (1961) · Hypocritical (1961) · Hysterical (1943) · Idiot (1962) · Ignoramus (1961) · Illegal (1977) · Illegal (actions)(1976) · Insolent and impertinent (1890) · Insolent and irresponsible reply (1962) · Inspired by forty - rod whiskey (1881) · Intentional deceit (1961) · Irresponsible Members (1969) · Irresponsible reply (1962) · Joker in this House (1960) · Kangaroo court (1960) · Lacking in intelligence (1934) · Lie (1959) · Lies (1976) · Living politically by deceit (1899) · Members have aligned themselves with the murderers in Quebec (1970) · Mislead (1958) · Misleading the public (1960) · Misrepresenting his constituency (1909) · Nazi (1962) · Nefarious (1960) · Not telling the complete truth (1964) · Not telling the truth (1960) · Obstruct the operation of government (1957) · Obstructionist (1961) · Offensive (1964) · Pompous Ass (1967) · Reneged promises (1962) · Scarcely entitled to be called gentlemen (1876) · Scurrilous (1961) · Seeking cheap notoriety (1919) · Shameful conduct (1960) · Sick animal (1966) · Silly reason (1961) · Sitting for his constituency by the grace of the leader of the Government (1884) · Slanderous accusations (1960) · Small and cheap (1960) · Stealing (1960) · Stooping to pretty low motives (1956) · Talking twaddle (1898) · The political sewer pipe from Carleton County (1917) · Theft (1960) · To hell with Parliament attitude (1961) · Trained seal (1961) · Treason (1957) · Trickery (1959) · Underhanded (1961) · Untrue statement (1961) · Violated his oath (1967) · Wilfully misled (1970)

Yet, by now, «Groveling Zuckerberg apologies» are just part of the Facebook playbook, as Liz Gannes observed back in 2011, after Facebook had just settled with the US Federal Trade Commission over still more privacy violations: