Sentences with phrase «cause celebre»

And when that problem came to the attention of the blogosphere, Cowgill because a virtual cause celebre.

The «hockey stick» may be a cause celebre among denialists, but it's only a secondary part of the mainstream case for global warming, which is based on the physics of the greenhouse effect and the observed warming of recent decades.

The cause celebre seems to be shifting to «ocean acidification.»

In Mann's new book «The Hockey Stick and Climate Wars», Mann writes: The multidecadal oscillation I'd helped discover would nonethless become a cause celebre among climate change contrarians.

Their latest cause celebre: New revelations in The Guardian that the director of the University of East Anglia's Climate Research Center, Phil Jones, may be in hot water over the accusations of scientific fraud having to do with Chinese weather station data.

Great expose on the conflation of other cause celebre on climate science, and very revealing about some of the more intimate issues people like Myhre are really having - this really reflects poorly on her.

Over the years his ideas have been expressed in such different media that this commission, this cause celebre for Tate Britain, could have been anything from sculpture and photography to video, painting or text.

That's why SkipJack Publishing is putting its efforts behind Attentive Driving as our cause celebre.

The fate of Lady Bird has become something of a Hollywood cause celebre, although it is still a few weeks before the film is released here.

This film premiered at Sundance as a cause celebre as it was a film about transgender people, and was shot on a pair of smart - phones in one neighbourhood.

And now the jury's snub has made it a cause celebre,» Steve Pond and Ben Croll write for The Wrap.

Even though Julian Assange has gone from notorious hacker to exiled cause celebre (hell, Lady Gaga of all people paid him a visit at the Ecuadorean embassy in London), his saga remains fascinating and important.

Although the prosecutor had convinced a jury to sentence the pair to death based on questionable circumstantial evidence, the nagging doubts about their guilt or innocence which had turned the case into something of a cause celebre have remained unresolved to this very day.

To add insult to injury, he finds himself having to fend off unwanted passes, and turns into something of a campus cause celebre after claiming to be the victim of a gay bashing by frat boys.

It has since become a cult film and cinematic cause celebre, revered by its adherents and condemned by its detractors.

But Scharf, a yoga teacher with the downtown Rama Lotus Centre, said the concept does not apply in this case, arguing the complaint that killed the program came instead from a «social justice warrior» with «fainting heart ideologies» in search of a cause celebre.

However the subject of the NHS is one that particularly rankles with most voters, especially because Labour for so many years made the NHS their cause celebre and after stating that they had a week to save the NHS they have spent ten years destroying the NHS.

At minimum they will drone on at public meetings and in blogs over the issue, which they've adopted as much beyond the rational cause celebre» as the White Supremacists have adopted Robert E. Lee's statue in otherwise serene Charlottesville.

DADT became something of a cause celebre for the junior senator from New York, and she was in the forefront of the (eventually successful) push for its repeal late last year.

September is going to be back - to - school month, with posts on issues like: what on earth to pack in that empty lunch box every morning; how we all feel about making meals «cute» (heart - shaped sandwiches and the rest); an interview with some moms who've gone way beyond heart - shaped sandwiches — the Yum - Yum Bento moms; an interview with a public school teacher who has become a cause celebre in the school lunch reform movement; and more.

The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists released a statement last year condemning home births, saying, «Childbirth decisions should not be dictated or influenced by what's fashionable, trendy or the latest cause celebre.»

The case has been a cause celebre in Saudi Arabia, where proselytism is illegal and converting from Islam to another religion is a capital offense.

It only takes a few cause celebres to spark something big.»

Kenneth Longergan's quasi-masterpiece spent years as an unfinished film before emerging as one of the critical causes celebre of the 21st century.

Not exact matches

Diablo Cody has become a cause - celebre for her Oscar - winning script, and when one looks at the story alone, it's easy to see why.