Sentences with phrase «derision upon»

Over the past generation «supply side economics» has become an epithet used to cast scorn and derision upon any policy that doesn't look to Big Government as a driver of economic growth.

«When we were young and went to school, there were certain teachers who would hurt the children any way they could, by pouring their derision upon everything they did, exposing every weakness no matter how carefully hid by the kid.

Not a few leading gay and lesbian activists cast derision upon the alphabet soup ridiculousness, deciding to just toss the whole senseless effort to include everyone.

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The point of those analyses and «historical genealogies» that have become an object of derision among the liberals — oddly, from those who advocate a return to Madisonian principles — is certainly not to retreat to the comfort of the library or the coffee shop; nor is it to deny the contingencies of history by suggesting that 1968 follows upon 1776 with some kind of mechanical necessity.

Each symbol is but a spoke upon the wheels of societal derision.

• So, having heaped upon the National Council of Churches» screed against the celebration of the 500th anniversary of Columbus» arrival in the Americas a small measure of the derision that it deserves («Repenting of America 1492 - 1992,» October 1990), we are asked how Christians should think about the occasion.

The Ephesians Gentile Christians had started to look down upon their non-Christian neighbors and friends with scorn and derision.

It says a great deal about the depths to which America's values have fallen that Tim Tebow — who, once upon a time, would have been the wholesome, women - and - mom - respecting, clean - playing, fresh - faced and faithful Hollywood ideal of a football hero» is the target of such deep derision from so many sources, and in an era of such vaunted «tolerance.»

Any other path is often looked upon with derision by peers, as though leaving academia means you can't handle the academic track.

While it's attracted its fair share of derision for having any fewer than eight cylinders (the 2005 - ’06 Ford GT, like the classic GT40, called upon a V8 for power), a version of the same engine powers the lauded 2017 + Ford F - 150 Raptor, to great effect.

It may seem almost absurd to even suggest that the influence of the works of the so - called French, German, and Italian «Post Impressionists,» «Futurists,» «Cubists,» and other «ists,» as exemplified by representative examples at the Armory show, can have any immediate, or even near future effect, upon the generally strong, good and, from the conventional art viewpoint, sane, American painting and sculpture of today, but there is no doubt that the study of these new groupings, called «movements» in painting and sculpture, which have so emphasized and influenced the art of Europe today, for the past 5 years, and even the derision which they have excited, and will continue to excite, has had and will have a stimulating effect.

Seemingly not as the UK Met Office stopped publishing theirs a while back because of the national derision heaped upon them for predicting a barbecue summer that wasn't.