Sentences with phrase «debased by»

It makes one feel debased by even trying to debate the issues with such misanthropes.

And science continues to be debased by men with PhDs and lofty academic connections and financial support.

It's such a pity good science has been so debased by advocates for political reasons.

The idea of data being the product of measurements has been debased by «climate science.»

TIME 100: The People Who Shape Our World KIKI SMITH Delighting in the Debased By CHUCK CLOSE Thursday, May 4, 2006 In the face of an era (now more than 25 years in duration) dominated by appropriation over invention and innovation, what are we to make of the career of Kiki Smith?

When the bombs went off, the solemn silence maintained by the multitude was debased by shouts and cries pitched high with surprise and then with terror.

About the French Revolution, Jefferson wrote, «it has failed in its first effort, because the mobs of the cities, the instrument used for its accomplishment, debased by ignorance, poverty and vice, could not be restrained to rational action.»

Directed with an awfully heavy hand by Alexandros Avranas, the film has its own obsession with extreme close - ups, characters constantly entering rooms and closing doors, and, more problematically, scenes of naked women in bondage being debased by fully clothed males.

This practice is becoming more and more important these days, as cinema is constantly debased by the «ratings» mentality and the «hype» machine.

Genocide has been called the «crime of crimes» and there is a hesitancy to use it in case it becomes debased by overuse.

This translates as the rather admirable «the prize and the cause of our labours,» a worthy sentiment that was, according to at least one tale told on a forum, at one accidental point debased by the club.

Paul went on to remind the Galatians that the gospel is not of human origin, and that its message should not be distorted or debased by the imposition of controversial human opinions.

It was one more voice attempting to inject religiously informed wisdom into a public discourse that is increasingly debased by major media that are as morally ignorant as they are religiously indifferent.

Admittedly, it is frustratingly difficult to define anti-Semitism, and the very term has been recklessly debased by its facile use in order to silence critics (see the reference above to Freedman of Dartmouth).

The people who resisted the Civil Rights movement in the south, many of whom used religious arguments, people who classified Blacks as animals, were degraded and debased by their own actions: turning fire hoses on children, setting dogs on peaceful marchers, lynching, firebombing churches...

He continues in the latest issue, «Bitcoin can't be debased by unlimited issuance, since the blockchain process has been set to permit only a gradual increase from today's 16 million, to 21 million in 2140.

They just don't want to debase it by using it as a cheaper alternative to seeing a movie, or (for boys) as a way of asserting machismo in the absence of positive male role models, or (for girls) as a desperate ploy to hold on to a boyfriend — or any of the other sad, dead — end abuses of sex that become common whenever a society sheds its «repressed Victorianism.»

In an editorial in the 5 May issue of the BMJ, Smith argued that the university had «crossed a dangerous line» and is debasing itself by accepting this funding, and that BAT is hoping for «a place in heaven after a lifetime of evil.»

«When you have the super-rich paying for an immature Rose Period Picasso $ 104m (# 57m), close to the GNP of some Caribbean or African states, something is very rotten: such gestures do no honour to art: they debase it by making the desire for it pathological.»

Not exact matches

Regardless of whether it is implemented via an emperor surreptitiously reducing the precious - metal content of the coinage or by the banking system (the central bank and the commercial banks) creating new currency deposits out of nothing, monetary inflation is a method of forcibly transferring wealth from the rest of the economy to the first users of the new or debased money.

However, if print money endlessly, you debase the value of your own currency by creating a never - ending increase in supply, thereby driving the price down.

She condemns the New York Regents for debasing their diploma by lowering the passing grade.

Who has not been outraged by a debased piety that renders truth into smugness, purity into prudishness, justice into the status quo and honor into pride?

However debased Hawking's understanding of basic philosophy, it has been encouraged by the lack of real engagement with modern science by Catholic theologians.

We live in an age whose chief moral value has been determined, by overwhelming consensus, to be the absolute liberty of personal volition, the power of each of us to choose what he or she believes, wants, needs, or must possess; our culturally most persuasive models of human freedom are unambiguously voluntarist and, in a rather debased and degraded way, Promethean; the will, we believe, is sovereign because unpremised, free because spontaneous, and this is the highest good.

A loveless act is one that is «coercive, debasing to others» sensitivities, utterly impersonal, [or] obsessed solely by physical gratification.»

Plato's account of the slavish / tyrannical soul - type cultivated in the population by a tyrant would suggest that a darker vision of human failure than Hobbes» nightmare is possible: perpetual tyranny, with only dynasty changes possible for a population utterly debased in soul.

Those who exalt themselves will be humiliated by being debased, while the humble will be exalted (Matt.

«Again, the corrupt and unsound form of speaking in the plural number to a single person, you to one, instead of thou, contrary to the pure, plain, and single language of truth, thou to one, and you to more than one, which had always been used by God to men, and men to God, as well as one to another, from the oldest record of time till corrupt men, for corrupt ends, in later and corrupt times, to flatter, fawn, and work upon the corrupt nature in men, brought in that false and senseless way of speaking you to one, which has since corrupted the modern languages, and hath greatly debased the spirits and depraved the manners of men; — this evil custom I had been as forward in as others, and this I was now called out of and required to cease from.

In the following quotation Savarkar illustrates my point in a more nuanced fashion: «All that the caste system has done is to regulate its noble blood on lines believed — and on the whole rightly believed — by our saints and patriotic law - givers and kings to contribute most to fertilize and enrich all that was barren and poor, without famishing and debasing all that was flourishing and nobly endowed.

But unless it can be shown otherwise, any tampering with Communion for the divorced and remarried will corrupt the doctrine of marriage, and — by diminishing the image of the Church as bride of Christ — debase the Church.

By becoming subservient to him, the slave is debased and so is odious.

«I laugh at those debased peoples that let themselves be stirred up by agitators, and dare to speak of liberty without so much as having the idea of it; with their hearts still heavy with the vices of slaves, they imagine that they have only to be mutinous in order to be free.

It held that the words used by Carlin were offensive «for the same reasons that obscenity offends,» noting the FCC's finding that ««[o] bnoxious, gutter language describing [sexual and excretory bodily functions] has the effect of debasing and brutalizing human beings.»

Bachofen believed matriarchy was a conscious achievement by women after a long struggle to end conditions of debasing promiscuity and to achieve a higher, purer life.

So, too, by association and context, the theological basis of the middle prohibition: to debase and pervert the sex function by which covenant life is perpetuated is to deny the covenant, the Yahweh - man relationship, and Yahweh himself.

Defendant using his influence, wealth and power lured plaintiff into a relationship and tried spoiling, debase and corrupting the mind of plaintiff by sending plaintiff nude pictures, sex video and masturbating video through Skype, Whatsapp and asked plaintiff to do same.

«It is a disgrace and the prime minister has debased his office, not only by allowing a culture of division to be fostered in the London mayoral election campaign but to use the House of Commons as the platform for his hateful brand of dog - whistle politics.

He decried that the very traditional fiber of PDP founding fathers was also being trampled upon, debased and soiled by «external forces and mercenary traitors within».

The film paints a strikingly hostile portrait of its Latin American characters and some of its mayhem is vicious, even by the debased standards of today's action - movie genre.

All might have been even more effective were Messina's imaginative worlds and Makovsky's vivid costumes not drained of life by a 3 - D retrofit that debases their obvious artistry into diorama cheesiness.

By playing the same profane character she is just debasing herself.

The proof point is our current debased and divisive national discourse, which is conducted daily with rising intemperance by American adults, nearly all whom attended the traditional public schools that Christakis, in my view, sentimentalizes.

Attempting to maintain support among the very teachers it is supposed to represent — and looking to show that it cares about elevating the teaching profession it debases through its defense of quality - blind seniority - based privileges and reverse - seniority layoff rules — the NEA gave $ 73,500 to the National Network of State Teachers of the Year; that the selection of teachers of the year is usually more of a popularity contest than one based on objective measures of teacher performance is often conveniently ignored by all but the most thoughtful of observers, and thus, serves as a good way to spend union funds.

If we don't want our kids taught by slavish, debased drones, then we need to stop treating teachers like slavish, debased drones.»

And I won't debase the other automakers by mentioning them in this story.

George doesn't sentimentalise the war, debasing the traditional myths of patriotism and valour by saying, «they'd fought — he'd fought — for sex.»

But no country has ever restored itself by debasing its currency, not in the long term, not even the medium term.

Currencies that are backed by precious metals tend to experience less inflation, but many governments using such currencies debase the metals or clip the coins.

Furthermore, one can see the surges in bank credit accompanying these periods and tie them to specific policy moves by the authorities: The Treasury stimulated inflation in the early 1900s; the Fed deliberately inflated in the roaring 1920s to take the pressure off the British pound (which had been devalued during World War I); the Roosevelt administration took the reins off inflation by debasing the gold - content of the dollar in 1933; zealous money printing in the 1960s led to the inevitable collapse of the Bretton Woods system (and complete fiat money was born); money printing continued apace with Alan Greenspan in the 1990s and, following the dot - com crash, into the 2000s.