Sentences with phrase «censoriousness of»

While Hentoff objected, rightly, in his book to the censoriousness of conservatives, he called out his fellow leftists for similar impulses, finding such behavior contradictory to liberal values.

St. John Cassian goes further, in what is almost a commentary on Matthew 6, when he says, «it is very clear proof of the fact that a soul has not yet cut loose from the corruption of sin when it feels no sympathetic pity for the wrongdoing of others but holds instead to the strict censoriousness of a judge.»

Not exact matches

A: Respectability; childishness; mental timidity; dullness; sentimentality; censoriousness; and depression of spirits.

It is surprising how often the sayings of Jesus recur to this theme, of the folly and evil of self - righteousness and censoriousness.

On the other hand the pastoral counselor may tend toward harsh censoriousness or excessive roughness, trying to coerce change in others, forgetting kindness, and resorting to tactics of fear in order to force behavioral change on demand.

In an odd spirit of censoriousness, it is often remarked that American culture was never a melting pot.

On a story that has now reached mainstream news channels, Adam Shatz writing for the The London Review of Books concludes that «what is most troubling about the call to remove Schutz's painting is not the censoriousness, but the implicit disavowal that acts of radical sympathy, and imaginative identification, are possible across racial lines.»

With the possible exception of Climate Depot, I find their tone, in the main, to be non-belligerent — a «nice change», in fact, from some of the warmist blogs I visit — where ad hominem, ridicule, condescension, unfounded accusations and censoriousness toward dissenters (by the blog owners, not merely by visitors!)