Sentences with phrase «as inordinate»

This is a big plus for us, as an inordinate amount of our students attend NCCC.

For the foreseeable future, however, consumerism - understood as inordinate concern for things material - will be driven by extreme deprivation.

You believe, as I do, there is such a thing as inordinate sexual direction — that «where» you are inclined to express your sexuality can be misplaced.

«Attachment to spiritual things is... just as much an attachment as inordinate love of anything else.»

Not exact matches

They also said Mallinckrodt was aware of enforcement actions the agency had taken against distributors for failing to report the inordinate amounts of painkillers they were shipping to retail customers in states such as Florida.

Tax these enormous, ornate, arrogant churches, mosques, synagogues as the commercial real estate they are and finally let them approach offsetting the horrendously inordinate burden they place on the infrastructure and staffing of our strapped communities.

The assumption is that numerically disproportionate means inordinate, as in excessive and dangerously out of control.

Suddenly losing his temper he had shouted, «Your remarks are certainly ungrateful addressed as they are to one who spends an inordinate amount of his time defending you to Yale alumni.»

But that is done only in order to come later to the point of a clearer pastoral attempt to nurture attitudes of mercy and justice as opposed to pride and inordinate trust in riches.35

I asked the finance guy for a budget breakdown as every week when in attendence thay spend an inordinate amount of time asking for money, and using some of the afore mentioned scriptures.

Lem me guess... you've spent an inordinate amount of your life trying to make the observable facts of the universe fit into the fables you were indoctrinated into as a child.

For example, Catholics believe that a baby that isn't baptized with water goes to hell, thereby placing an inordinate emphasis on the religious ceremony as the source of the salvation, rather then on God.

As realistic as any moral realist in political and international affairs, Augustine yet insisted that an inordinate self - interest leads to self - destruction, as the evidence clearly showAs realistic as any moral realist in political and international affairs, Augustine yet insisted that an inordinate self - interest leads to self - destruction, as the evidence clearly showas any moral realist in political and international affairs, Augustine yet insisted that an inordinate self - interest leads to self - destruction, as the evidence clearly showas the evidence clearly shows.

Feeling pain, sensing mischief and inordinate arrogance as I read books for this study.

We speak of covetousness as a lack of a sense of enough, and we know that on the personal level covetousness leads us to the sinful brink of hoarding, or an inordinate desire for unnecessary possessions at least.

In our day we are probably more conscious than Niebuhr was in his that self - surrender, sloth, and inordinate self - humiliation need to be emphasized as much as pride to fully understand man s sin.

At least some of our citizens have come to see that the present organization of our economic life, including the corporation, threatens not only our democratic government, because of its inordinate political influence, but also our national character and form of life, because of its propagation of the idea of wealth as merely the accumulation of consumer goods.

Nevertheless, fear which runs into inordinate anxiety, whether as sudden panic or chronic worry, can be a terribly devastating force.

Likewise, «Often inordinate laxity is believed to be kindness, and unbridled anger passes as the virtue of spiritual zeal.

We told thee that thy Lord doth encompass mankind round about: We granted the Vision which We showed thee, but as a trial for men as also the Cursed Tree (mentioned) in the Qur «an: We put terror (and warning) into them, but it only increases their inordinate transgression!

One of the big problems i see with religious people is the inordinate amount of time and effort they spend connecting with an imaginary «god / jesus» as opposed to actually connecting with the real people who are around them everyday...

The real question is much greater: is there a tendency in some proponents of the great Pope's theology to take it as an invitation to focus on sexuality and especially on its romantic and pleasurable aspects to an inordinate degree?

The perils of buying half a steer from an organic farmer, such as Vibrant Farms, are few but the main ones are an inordinate amount of freezer space required and the need for some really good recipes for ground beef.

Much of that has to do with how John Cena has evolved as a wrestler late into his career — an inordinate percentage of WWE's best matches from the last few years involve Cena, and that's not a criticism of the rest of the roster so much as praise for how good John has become.

Landing on the moon is no longer an inordinate ambition as man has conquered the moon by landing on it and also walked on it.

Arsenal beating Bayern Munich will not be an inordinate ambition as they have beaten them before at the Allianz Arena.

On the satellite trail, an inordinate number of players use oversized Prince rackets because, as with vitamins and religion, there is no evidence that they hurt you, and there remains the possibility they will help.

Granted, Henderson's absence was but one of many in 2016/17, as the club suffered an inordinate number of injuries to key players this season.

She suggests looking at whether your child has enough down time, or whether he's spending an inordinate amount of time in passive activities, such as watching television.

Or it can be, as one supposes, due to the inordinate demands on the bodies of rich, yet corruptible bodies, and the need to be perfect in Hollywood.

«Consequently, the Buhari government has spent inordinate time cleaning the rot and plugging the holes in the corrupt system they institutionalised as their strategic policy and national direction.

Research indicates that any Value Added Measure (VAM) that utilizes one measurement to an inordinate level such as the 50 % suggested by the Governor is ineffective in correlating a teacher's effectiveness as it relates to student learning.

For the new streets, Oddo chose Cupidity Drive, which means inordinate desire for wealth; Fourberie Lane, defined as trickery and deception; and Avidity Place, derived from avidita, meaning greed.

He described Mr Mugabe as an «African icon» but added the «inordinate ambition of his wife» has ended the Mugabe political story.

Gibson, a man of modest means, spent an inordinate amount of time fundraising, as do most of his colleagues.

Tinubu expressed regrets that the APC administration led by President Muhammadu Buhari has had to spend «inordinate time cleaning the rot and plugging the holes in the corrupt system the others had institutionalised as their strategic policy and national direction.»

In reality, crime scene investigators often spend seemingly inordinate amounts of time gathering and assessing evidence and then present it as probabilities rather than the kind of definitive result expected of a court room filled with actors rather than real people.

In recent sleep lab studies of 600 people age 30 or older, Mignot was surprised to find that 1 percent — or 20 times as many as with classic narcolepsy — suffered from inordinate sleepiness, had a high frequency of the autoimmune marker linked to narcolepsy, and went very rapidly into REM when they napped.

As a consequence, younger researchers are spending inordinate hours in the office, trying to live up to this view.

As a quote attributed to mathematician Benoît Mandelbrot put it, «Even though economics is a very old subject, it has not truly come to grips with the main difficulty, which is the inordinate practical importance of a few extreme events.»

Known as the valley's premier provider of integrative and functional medicine, Dr. Sosnowski has a strong reputation for investing inordinate amounts of time getting to know, diagnose and treat her patients.

As in... the warm - up becomes this drawn out, overly dramatic «thing» to the point where some people spend 45 minutes on a foam roller hitting every inch of their body and / or performing an inordinate amount of mundane correctives before they even touch a dumbbell or barbell.

Additionally, assuming all that, she still somehow spends an inordinate amount of time with her «hubs,» as evidenced by this somewhat angry retort to what she perceived to be - perhaps correctly so - a condescending post:

Amour suffers from some pacing issues, although these are largely the result of Haneke using «dead space» (such as a sequence in which his camera spends an inordinate amount of time focused on paintings or an interminable scene in which Georges attempts to capture a pigeon that has entered his home) to establish a tone or develop a character.

There was also a strong note of melancholy going through many of the better films, with an inordinate number set during the winter months as a way of emphasising this sombre tone.

The story centers on Jude as he comes to terms with finding out he's adopted, works to overcome his less than stellar parents, and spends an inordinate amount of time finding new ways to experiment with drugs.

Everyone's favourite characters, much of the surreal narration (delivered with perfect dryness by Stephen Fry), and the original's distinctive theme music, are all present and accounted for — and in an age where CGI has become the slick new medium for special visual effects, an inordinate amount of physical modelling and creature puppetry have been used to give the film a refreshingly organic retro look, as though the crew from the original TV series had been lured back to their old tools by a much bigger budget.

A «fun fact» track is almost as funny - useless, spending an inordinate amount of time obsessing over the number of «J» - named people in Stiles's family and the like.

Why it Might Fail: As mentioned, Allen has made an inordinate number of films throughout his career.

Fortunately, TCMFF 2018 did offer various opportunities to celebrate talented, perhaps less zingy writer - directors such as Gillian Armstrong (My Brilliant Career); James Ivory (Maurice); Robert Benton (Kramer vs. Kramer); Melvin van Peebles (Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song, a salute which makes me happy even though my mind remains boggled that it ever managed to happen); and Ron Shelton (Bull Durham), whose gem - laden career bears an inordinate degree of dedication to making sports movies the way Hollywood doesn't like to make»em — raunchy, unpredictable, often melancholy — and then proving that audiences would come to see them anyway.