Sentences with phrase «as scandalous»

I have had interactions with the legal profession and it's minders that have been as scandalous as anything that has ever occurred within the halls of organized real estate!

Still, and although I know this boat sailed a long time ago, I can't help but wonder if the days when such a pleading would have been seen as scandalous rather than helpful, were not better days.»

The Guard button could use some tweaking, or maybe just remove it altogether (that's not nearly as scandalous as it sounds).

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.

These books struck me as scandalous, exciting and completely addictive.

Lacking the usual filter between his brain and his mouth, Montana lets fly with stream - of - consciousness invective and profane one - liners that might seem de rigueur in an era where every other screen thug takes charm lessons from Quentin Tarantino, but were derided as scandalous by establishment critics on the film's release.

Forbidden love is a decent enough concept for a feature film, but if we're not told why it's happening in the first place, it merely comes off as scandalous for the sake of selling tickets.

The humor isn't anywhere near as scandalous as it claims to be because the very idea of pushing bizarre premises to their nastiest and most absurd extremes jumped the shark at least a decade ago, rendering any and all further reiterations of such gags pointless.

The marriage itself was seen as scandalous, given the age difference between the pair: Farrow was just 21 at the time, while Sinatra was 50 years old.

Correlation abuse and «multiple - regression monster» studies are as scandalous as science's mass misuse of «statistical significance.»

They, therefore, described as scandalous news that BOST / Government will want to bear the liabilities relating to this contamination instead of holding TSL or KMS responsible.

He said the errors identified with the list were not enough to describe the exercise as scandalous, insisting that «there is no scandal».

But as the scandalous move to deny thousands of new voters a ballot in the ongoing leadership election shows, the Labour establishment clearly feels insecure that people are no longer as obedient as they once were.

It's not actually as scandalous as you'd think.

The man in the middle tonight is Artur Dias of Portugal who was once described by Porto's President as scandalous and disgraceful following his performance in a Benfica — Porto derby game.

The Bible is filled with examples of God's fury over economic oppression of the poor, which Christians should regard as scandalous, he says.

100 years ago this would have been just as scandalous.

It was that message, the «word of the cross» preached by Paul, that struck both Jews and Gentiles as scandalous foolishness, as an offense against both the wisdom of the educated and the common sense of ordinary people.

Of course, my own is also there, along with the others» corresponding husbands, so it's hardly as scandalous as it could sound.

Ironically, JT is probably facing more heat for this now, in light of his return to the Halftime Show, than he did as Scandalous JT 14 years ago.

Not exact matches

Just as the capital Kuala Lumpur settles down following a fraught rally last week, at which riot police turned water cannons on supporters of the PM, top U.S. media outlets, the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) and the New York Times (NYT), have reported yet more scandalous allegations about the country's sovereign wealth fund.

During the 2016 campaign, Cohen served as a liaison between Trump and the Enquirer as the tabloid paid for scandalous rumors and tips about Trump that it never published.

The Internet Adult Film Directory, the adult industry's version of IMDb, cites her as the director of 91 films, including 2007's «Operation: Desert Stormy» and 2017's «Scandalous.»

Somehow, as quickly as possible, we must discover the most effective way to end the scandalous failure of our inner - city schools.

First, Driscoll's so - called «fall» (from the Acts 29 p.o.v.) seems mainly to involve scandalous improprieties re: funds and books and tone and so on, but the theology that undergirds the spiritual abuse doesn't come under fire since Acts 29 not only doesn't see it as a problem, but generally holds to it as well.

On behalf of those who are not, those who are ought to be malcontent with the scandalous American toleration of dying (as opposed to living) wages, the widening income gap and the inability of millions to afford decent health care.

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.»

The Gospel, as seen in the words attributed to Jesus, is scandalous!

You will to good deeds top others, how to witness to others of Gods «indiscriminate, scandalous, shocking, outrageous, senseless, irrational, unfair, irreligious, ridiculous, absurd, offensive» grace as you began to practice your new self with Gods power to His glory.

She incarnates an extravagantly gracious (and scandalous) welcome as she washes Jesus» feet with her tears, dries them with her hair, kisses them with her lips and finally anoints them with oil.

Most, perhaps all, cultures and religious traditions have some version of the problem of evil, but as C. S. Lewis wrote in The Problem of Pain, this problem becomes scandalous in Christianity, which traditionally has held that the universe is governed by a loving and omnipotent God.

David Primrose, Director of Transforming Communities in the Diocese of Litchfield described the situation as «scandalous».

So the community I pastor continues to grow more and more diverse and as a result scandalous in many ways.

Though I am not a Calvinist, I hold to radical, outrageous, scandalous grace (a grace which is more gracious than the grace of many Calvinists), and I believe that as fallen and sinful human beings, we should always be about the work of reforming ourselves and our theology and never consider ourselves fully reformed.

As my friend Ray says, grace is scandalous, and to view relationships in a Christlike lens, we have to look at others with scandalous grace.

We agree about this, and also, in principle at least, that demythologizing throws into sharper relief the paradoxical or scandalous character of its claims, so that they become as clear for modern man as they were in apostolic times.

We are so used to reading the Bible as a «Holy Book» that we often fail to see how humorous and delightful it can be... even, at times, scandalous and bawdy.

There is no question that forgiving our most scandalous sin was foremost on Jesus» heart as He hung dying on the Cross.

I hope that they are not satisfied as long as the current scandalous state of the Church exists, but rather remain a constant rebuke.

If we now find ourselves obliged to raise precisely this question once again and to think it over afresh, we must first of all make it clear that we are here taking the concept of good in its widest sense, that is to say, simply as the contrary of vicious, lawless and scandalous, as the opposite of public transgression of the moral law, as good in contrast to the publican and harlot.

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.

e ¯ bha ¯ h is even used as synonymous with «idol» or heathen deity, John also says that the sin of Sodom and Gomorrah was no hospitality this is totally bogus, in fact their sin was the very same thing we see today that's why he cant see clearly that they were sinners before the Lord exceedingly, guilty of the most notorious crimes, and addicted to the most scandalous and unnatural lusts that can be thought of; and these they committed openly and publicly in the sight of God, in the most daring and impudent manner, and in defiance of him, without any fear or shame.

A protest that merely refutes Catholicism is unfruitful because divisions within the Church of Christ are no longer experienced as distressing, scandalous, let alone sinful.

United by an «Anabaptist conception of church» and the «scandalous conviction» that «where two or three are gathered together in the name of a redeeming Love that defies the powers of shame and death, the meaning and destiny of all creation are revealed,» this little group ordained Loney as a pastor to the men on Georgia's death row in January of 1985.

To the extent that we are committed to the ideal of a secular society free of ecclesiastical influence and governed by toleration, liberty, and a conception of civic virtue; and insofar as we think of true religious piety as consisting in treating other human beings with dignity and respect, and regard the Bible simply as a profound work of human literature with a universal moral message, we are the heirs of Spinoza's scandalous treatise.

So I want to take what for moderns is the most scandalous of these scandalous laws as our hard case — those related to sexual sins — and press Jesus on his claim that these and other laws in Moses reveal him and his grace, mercy, forgiveness, and love (Lk 24:27, 44, cf., John 5:46).

What we do see, however, is that certain groups try to limit, restrict, or modify grace so that it is not as shocking or scandalous as it first appears.

The newly formed «PEST» special committee of the European Parliament is to examine the scandalous glyphosate risk assessment and the European pesticide approval system as a whole over the next six months

January and we are clearly and already out of the league title... It is not scandalous, but shameful and Wenger as well as all his cronies should be answering questions.