Sentences with phrase «as pejorative»

The recovered memory debate has been the most acrimonious, vicious and hurtful internal controversy in the history of modern psychiatry... the term recovered memory is used exclusively as a pejorative.

Regulatory Demands Can Have Unintended Consequences If tactical lists of favorite regulations to promulgate and past executive decisions to «fix» is all what our loosely formed green machine has to say, then we can fully expect those who still use «Tree Hugger» as a pejorative term to mock us with our own irrelevance.

1) If «limitations» isn't meant as pejorative, certainly.

Benson also flirts with decoration, another narrative cast aside as pejorative in the history of modernism.

And when it started being called Zombie Formalism, not so much by me but just by the writers for The New York Times, and by Roberta Smith and by Jerry Saltz, picked up the term right away as a pejorative.

«Gothic» was used in the Renaissance as a pejorative adjective for medieval architecture.

Heroic, back then, was used as a pejorative; today, in art, it would be hard to use the word at all.

The term «Walking Simulator» is often used as a pejorative to dismiss narrative - based adventure games that are often light on gameplay elements, despite being primarily designed to deliver an engaging narrative experience.

The term «Walking Simulator» is often used as a pejorative to dismiss narrative - based adventure games that are often light on...

The phrase «faking it» is often used as a pejorative.

Nothing in what we will present here should be interpreted as pejorative regarding the elements of teacher training described in the previous section.

I am determined that we stamp out the use of the word gay as a pejorative term.»

Thomas McCarthy is one of a few filmmakers for whom the word quirky needn't be prescribed as a pejorative.

But I've never gotten the sense that Ebert was using the term as a pejorative, either.

There's no way to forcibly make words «go away,» but my general impression is that, rather than slut as a pejorative being reclaimed, it's increasingly common to apply it to all genders and sexual orientations.

The tension between science and the public has flared up in recent times, easily seen in how the appellation «elite» was used as a pejorative during recent elections.

«The findings demonstrate that gossip is intimately linked to mate competition and not solely the product of a female gender stereotype that may be viewed as pejorative,» states Davis, who believes that therapists, counsellors, educators, and the general public should rethink their stance about gossip.

POBRECITO «Man flu» is often used as a pejorative term for when men overstate their cold symptoms as flu symptoms.

«You describe it as a pejorative phrase.The PM thinks the key thing here is getting the policies right.»

It is frequently used by opponents as a pejorative synonym for the more general «animal testing».

As a pejorative for majoritarianism, it is akin to the Latin phrase mobile vulgus meaning «the fickle crowd», from which the English term «mob» was originally derived in the 1680s.

Thanks, On the Internazionale point, the intention was just to make the rhetorical point that «immigrants» only seems to get used generically as a pejorative term, eg in crime reporting, etc..

Many fatherhood bloggers initiated a petition to change the ads, seeing this depiction of the inept father at home as pejorative.

Because using a word that describes a condition someone is born with as a pejorative is what nature people do...

The Masters is golf's Super Bowl, and I mean that as a pejorative term.

Do you know how many times «mostly white» is used as a pejorative these days?

It should not be regarded as a pejorative term, for the sects sometimes develop into mainline churches, as did the early Methodists.

«The term atheism originated from the Greek ἄθεος (atheos), meaning «without god (s)», used as a pejorative term applied to those thought to reject the gods worshipped by the larger society.»

Lewis frequently used «humanism» and «humanitarian» as pejoratives, but only because in common usage those terms reflected smug liberal prejudices that were not nearly humanistic enough.

Not exact matches

The phrase «social justice warrior» has become a pejorative, much as «PC culture» was mocked in the»90s — as if over-earnest young people are the worst thing.

Framed in this pejorative fashion, who can blame reporters who interpret changes as «concessions.»

Instead of running ads, they would define Scheer more slowly, over time, with a series of forced choices in Parliament, through government motions, much as opposition parties usually seek to define governments (you'll note that «define» in Ottawa politics is almost always pejorative by implication) through clever use of their occasional opportunity to define a day's parliamentary debate through so - called «supply motions.»

It was not so very long ago that everyone called them â $ œtar sands.â $ It wasnâ $ ™ t a pejorative, but merely a descriptive term for the tarry treasure once seen as the ideal substance for paving Albert...

These terms are not (or should not be) pejorative, as they describe part of the human condition.

«Gay marriage» is more often used to be disparaging, as «gay» is widely used these days as a general pejorative.

It seemed he could hardly talk about anything else, which struck his critics as a borderline unhealthy obsession and stuck him with all manner of unfortunate pejoratives like «communist» and «marxist.»

In the Bible such constraints are conventionally attributed to «the world» in the pejorative sense of that term, which we may define as the world of the creation reduced by the purposes of any of the forms of selfishness.

These comments appeared to me to be a bit pejorative as there was no attempt at biblical refutation or even explanation of the context of your statements.

In the first chapter, he reclaims the word dogma from its popular pejorative meaning, defining it as an accurate statement of what is true, and setting out the relation between philosophy and theology that frames the rest of the book.

If we are to speak of extremes — without pejorative intent — at the other end of the spectrum would be those services planned by administrators (whether presidents, deans or chaplains) which have survived as full - blown Christian liturgies expressing the theological tradition behind the institution's establishment.

Eliade understands syncretism not in a pejorative sense but as something inherent in culture and religion to influence each other.

However, many scholars regard Oriental religions as detrimental to Christianity and describe them in pejorative sense as being syncretistic, polytheistic and idol worshipping.

Paul's highly pejorative description of homosexual practice in Romans 1:24 - 27 — «dishonorable» or «degrading,» «contrary to nature,» an «indecency» or «shameful / obscene behavior,» and a fit «payback» for straying from God — suggests that Paul regarded homosexual practice as an especially serious infraction of God's will, in line with all Jewish perspectives of the time.

This removes the pejorative force which I have retained in my translation as «so - called crisis of survival».

The other front was known as Romanism, a pejorative term for Catholic Christianity.

Yet because Muslims regard the Qur» an as literally the word of God, it is a mistake to regard them as «fundamentalists» in the popular pejorative sense.

While Cobb eschews, admirably, what he regards as the unjustified and pejorative understanding of Pharisaism, he contends that «Jesus» message is presented over against Pharisaic Judaism rather than directly in relation to the prophets themselves.

Across the religious world, the word secular, now used in a positive, not pejorative, sense and the word city, now used as if far more promising than anything rural, agrarian, or traditional, rang out on everybody's lips.

Justin Welby called for a «ceasefire» on the use of insults, «personalised attacks» and «pejorative terms» as the process of leaving the European Union continues.

The word cult isn't necessarily a pejorative any more than the word socialism is... it's only so in the eyes of self - righteous hypocrites such as Republicans in general.