Sentences with phrase «as screed»

(By the way, don't misread this as a screed against tests.

That, I'm guessing, is at least part of what accounts for ABP's expansion with these satellite publishers, as well as its screeds against vanity publishing and self - publishing.

Not exact matches

Sooner or later, every successful company confronts the dilemma of hiring an ad agency (for the purpose of this screed, we'll use that term to describe marketing services companies of all stripes, such as creative ad shops, digital agencies, PR firms — the whole hairball).

As we mentioned yesterday, tech entrepreneur Jason Calacanis has been making waves with his exhaustive, five - part screed against Apple and what he deemed to be the company's anticompetitive practices.

It begins as a hysterical screed — with Lusk name - checking the Gestapo, Hitler, Mao and Stalin — and ends up a nuanced critique marshalling convincing evidence that many totems of the foodie world are propped up with shaky supports.

In fact, it is a scissors - and - paste job of outrages real and imagined in the service of a screed that displays the Anti-Defamation League and its director Abraham Foxman as reckless alarmists who play fast and loose with the truth.

In his latest screed, Skip the Supplements, he offers as settled science that «until the day comes when medical studies prove that these supplements have legitimate benefits, and until the F.D.A. has the political backing and resources to regulate them like drugs, individuals should simply steer clear.»

However, this was weirdly marketed as a right wing screed upon its initial release in 1973 (and became a surprise runaway boxoffice hit especially a huge following within the drive - in theatre circuit in the South where some theatres ran it for over a year).

The script is weak (as one might expect for a fear - mongering art - screed).

«Promised Land» is more effective as an anti-fracking screed than as a drama.

He definitely has a vision he believes in a thousand percent - The Room is very much a personal screed for him - but Franco's film doesn't paint him as either fully sympathetic or tyrannical.

Levine exhibited scant optimism about the movie's prospects, and some of the most influential critics, including Pauline Kael and John Simon, dismissed it, as later would a writer at the New Yorker, Jacob Brackman, whose screed went on for some twenty pages.

It presents a future in 2022 that seems unlikely not because we're not currently on the verge of some great ecological disaster, but because rough math suggests that the Heston character would've been born the year before the film's 1973 release and thus his declaration that he'd never seen a grapefruit (or grass, or cows) should worm its way into the audience consciousness as Soylent Green's statement that it's not serious, thoughtful science - fiction, but rather soapbox and screed timed to coincide with, in 1972, the first international conference on climate change.

Surely «The Fighting Sullivan's» has more patriotism than does a screed such as 4th of July.

The film concludes with some end cards about the 80,000 criminals shipped to French Guiana — but while I'm usually one for railing against injustice, this movie works best as an adventure yarn, not a finger - pointing screed.

Bettany plays Kaczynski mostly as the deranged mastermind; Worthington's Fitz is a far more interesting character, an agent who is tempted to empathize with his prey's antisocial, anti-technological screed.

At that moment, the town drunk, Italo Bambolini, climbs to the top of the water tower to paint over his screed from earlier days supporting Mussolini, but paralyzed with both realization of the err of his ways, as well as a fear of heights, he drinks himself to the brink of suicide.

But the film's influence can still be felt in films as recent as Jordan Peele's Oscar - winning, suburban screed «Get Out.»

Instead of turning the quest into a liberal screed that demands women have the same rights as men in deciding what is best for their bodies — although that part is hard to ignore — Grandma, instead, dives deep into the character of this woman.

Because I definitely saw this as more of an angry screed towards our concepts and actions surrounding a «creator / god».

Third, none of this should come across as some kind of anti-tech screed.

He also helped craft a speech Trump gave last October that seemed to have been cribbed from The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, the notoriously anti-Semitic screed that has driven the conspiracy theories (and political actions) of bigots such as Henry Ford and Adolph Hitler for a century.

For someone such as your editor, who can claim more than his fair share of conservative and libertarian bona fides, Malkin's screeds read more like something written by the notoriously solipsistic traditionalist Susan Ohanian (and worse, one of Kennedy assassination conspiracy - theorist Mark Lane's execrable books) than something written by one of the conservative movement's leading polemicists.

All puppies should be sold to responsible purchasers, who have been screed for suitability as owners.

There were all these screeds against them as being sexist and this and that, but what struck me, again, was this reliance or belief that painting was not just an ironic vehicle, but a true vehicle.

As we spoke, Graham was installing Sharon Hayes's Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA) Screeds # 13, 16, 20 & 29 (2003), a four - channel video work in which the artist, looking straight into the viewer's eyes, performs as Patty Hearst and ultimately renames herself TaniAs we spoke, Graham was installing Sharon Hayes's Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA) Screeds # 13, 16, 20 & 29 (2003), a four - channel video work in which the artist, looking straight into the viewer's eyes, performs as Patty Hearst and ultimately renames herself Tanias Patty Hearst and ultimately renames herself Tania.

Artists like Louis Masai, who is not listed as one of the artists who sent the letter to McDonald's according to Artnet News, posted lengthy screeds against the advertising on their Facebook pages:

The blistering 13 - point screed outlined «perks» for female artists, such as «not having to be in shows with men,» «having an escape from the art world in your 4 free - lance jobs» and «having the opportunity to choose between career and motherhood.»

The Lottâ s Seitzâ, Singers, Michaels and the rest of the gang of six have worked assiduously to get their screeds onto op ed pages of many newpapers where they are read by millions of people while folk who write science have their stuff read by maybe a hundred in some refereed journal or maybe a thousand on some blog such as this.

Before a new floor covering can be laid, allowing the building to be used as before, the screed has to be replaced or dried.

They know of me through my efforts to combat anti-environmental screeds and perhaps through my research as well.

Wikimedia Foundation boasts of its transparency, yet its own profile page on Wikipedia is an empty redirect page pointing to a long Frequently Asked Questions list that reads like a blatant yet evasive self - promotional screed and does not provide the solid, detailed who - what - when - where reportorial information of other Wikipedia foundation entries such as those of the Ford Foundation or the Pew Charitable Trusts.

As to the rest of your screed, all I can suggest is that «argument from ignorance» is a perfect description.