Sentences with phrase «disingenuous if»

But mostly you're disingenuous if you think that failure to address one paper's problems somehow negate addressing another paper's problems.

I'd be a bit disingenuous if I didn't concede that there is a stigma associated with bankruptcy for many out there.

It's also disingenuous if the administration tries to claim that there won't be negative impact on operations.

It would be disingenuous if I were to skirt over the issue of Chelski fans and their appalling behaviour in Paris, it would be irresponsible to simply join the bandwagon and condemn a single club and their fans (distasteful as they are, with their list of racist incidents is as long as my arm) over the despicable behaviour they exhibited.

While I do not do it to receive, I would be disingenuous if I did not acknowledge that God has blessed me and my household, not necessarily financially or materially, but with overflowing grace that translates into a life of contentment and praise..

You are therefore disingenuous if not downright dishonest.

Not exact matches

If only both ads weren't so incredibly disingenuous.

The takeaway is this, if you don't start with a passion for purpose, your brand will appear disingenuous and have an opposite affect on your growth.

«People are pretty savvy, and if they see you trying to copy somebody else, they'll think you're disingenuous,» says Friedman.

If the title seems a bit disingenuous, my apologies.

If you're going to be so disingenuous about different usages, then you might want to choose something more obscure.

The most interesting feature of the disingenuous editorial, however, is not its promotion of unlikely Republicans, but its unstated admission that if the Times is to have any national influence, it must influence the Republican party.

I try to speak with respect, care, and caution, but if I tried to speak as if I didn't believe what I actually do believe, then I would be disingenuous.

But if one's pastoral theology does not align with one's theology it is disingenuous and dishonest.

If I perceive a comment to be disingenuous I will respond accordingly, not in an effort to cause discord but to right a wrong.

Portraying religious dissenters as favoring separation was an effective, if disingenuous, rhetorical tactic because it was so widely accepted by Americans that church and state occupied cooperative relationships.

If he is using the example of pork to ridicule various religious beliefs, that is disingenuous.

Both felt disingenuous and as if I were missing the point of forgiveness altogether.

@ observer: 1) if saying «i disagree with your position» means a group of people are going to attempt to get you fired, it is disingenuous to claim one is «free to speak» — especially when the company for which one works supposedly has NO stance on the issue.

In pursuing this reform, the Government has created a neat, but disingenuous, conceit: namely that if you believe the estate of marriage is a benign and stabilising influence then you must also favour marriage between two men or two women.

If I said that I hadn't had crack, which is actually the case, then my naming them as such would seem, I don't know, disingenuous.

If I wanted to be a disingenuous putz, I could pretend that comparison meant something (as if the bodies of a high schooler and a grown - ass professional athlete wouldn't be markedly different), and I could point out that Jones sure had a noticeable dip in production when he turned 32 and then suddenly got much better (as if that kind of variance doesn't happen in baseball all the freaking timeIf I wanted to be a disingenuous putz, I could pretend that comparison meant something (as if the bodies of a high schooler and a grown - ass professional athlete wouldn't be markedly different), and I could point out that Jones sure had a noticeable dip in production when he turned 32 and then suddenly got much better (as if that kind of variance doesn't happen in baseball all the freaking timeif the bodies of a high schooler and a grown - ass professional athlete wouldn't be markedly different), and I could point out that Jones sure had a noticeable dip in production when he turned 32 and then suddenly got much better (as if that kind of variance doesn't happen in baseball all the freaking timeif that kind of variance doesn't happen in baseball all the freaking time).

If you believe it's an extra $ 1,000, you're either being disingenuous, or you've never been lucky enough to sit in seats so good that they're behind a net.

But handling him how you reference suggests he is not and thus if so complaining about how he performs is disingenuous

If so, any argument about him needing more work on something is disingenuous.

We'll save Steven Gerrard the pain of going over what happened next again, but despite the heartache that followed, Suarez's season was one to be celebrated — even if talk of «rehabilitation» following his previous wrongdoing was clearly disingenuous.

If any of our resident aaaa's or their disingenuous apologists blame Gabriel — from me — just go and F yourselves.

If somebody can't see how three league wins in over four months is not worthy of the sack they are being disingenuous to the extreme.

Suggesting otherwise is disingenuous, and makes mothers, mothers COMMITTED to breastfeeding, who are doing EVERYTHING they're told by the people who are supposed to be helping, feel like they are failures when they experience the TOTALLY NORMAL pain and are informed that if they were doing a better job, it wouldn't happen.

If Anne were not coming here with her disingenuous pro Pink Slime beef industry advert cloaked in a feel good family story, there would be no need for my pointed comments.

I suspect your comment is disingenuous and intended to provoke, but if you're truly worried that a child will die a «ghastly death from flesh eating bacteria contracted from Kosher chicken fingers she was served at her school cafeteria,» I think you can sleep soundly at night, Francine.

Curran, a second - term legislator from Baldwin, cited the recording as evidence that Martins, who has pledged no tax increases if elected county executive, is being disingenuous with voters.

De Blasio's allies accuse the governor of being disingenuous, that it was Cuomo who wielded the bellows with construction unions and Republicans — and that the governor had the power all along to craft more city - friendly bargains if he'd been interested.

«It was intimidating and disingenuous in its communication with residents and the document that it has sent to the Town Board, «Facts versus Myths» — it's as if they got the subtitles backwards.

Governor Paterson's polling numbers would look a whole lot different if the particpants in the Marist Poll were sequestered from biased and negative news stories by a disingenuous press.

Auerbach told us he'd only claim fees if he won, which in hindsight was disingenuous.

Copeland MP Jamie Reed said: «If CND activists and former Green party candidates are going to have any input into Labour's defence review, it further destroys the credibility of what is a deliberately divisive, dishonest and disingenuous defence review.

«If I thought there was anything disingenuous or deceptive or misleading that they were doing, I wouldn't be giving them funding,» insists Councilman Eric Ulrich (R - Queens), who, like Koo, describes himself as pro-choice.

Advocates say Gallivan's concerns about family court are disingenuous because the Cuomo administration and legislators actually put increased funding for the family court system in the state budget - money that could be tapped if «Raise the Age» is passed.

Martha will never, ever know if someone is dating her for her, or for some other disingenuous reasons.

McG's Marshall lies at the nexus of Thornton Wilder and Norman Rockwell — it's David Lynch without the irony — and if he overdoes things a touch, there's nothing disingenuous about it.

While I have no doubt that he believes this fiction (in spirit if not particulars, perhaps), Brashear's story — even in its big - screen dilution — is so manifestly about long - term, institutionalized racism, that such a comment appears patently naive, even disingenuous (the movie even makes the case, somewhat ironically, that the Navy's greatness is proved by the fact that someone so exceptional as Brashear would want to be part of it).

Whereas across earlier films Haneke's predilection for deceit served a high - minded, if still somewhat suspect, intellectual purpose (an interrogation of privilege and meaning in Caché, the deconstruction of genre in both versions of Funny Games, and so on), here his disingenuous approach is not only unwarranted, but is actually at odds with the tone and tenor of the drama.

If you've ever seen a movie, you'll see right through this front and recognize this idyllic community for the insidious, disingenuous construct that it is (a similar problem plagued Gore Verbinski's A Cure for Wellness earlier this year).

If the crazy McGoslings haven't yet offed themselves in mass suicide, perhaps they'd like to transfer their obsession onto Reese and Jake who are equally as cute, if not a little disingenuouIf the crazy McGoslings haven't yet offed themselves in mass suicide, perhaps they'd like to transfer their obsession onto Reese and Jake who are equally as cute, if not a little disingenuouif not a little disingenuous.

When you're a performer, and especially when you're on television, you're just in prison all the time when you step outside, and it's really hard and it's not something that they can complain about because it seems disingenuous, but she had to weather a lot when she's trying to create this show, and I think she landed it really nicely and at the right time, but we're in that space now where if somebody — as Britney Spears said [it was actually Taylor Swift], «Haters gonna hate.»

If you've ever wondered why the genre of romantic comedy is in such a sorry state, watch these two appealing actors go through every false note in the book in Friends With Benefits, a movie so disingenuous that the neither premise, the climax, nor the resolution ever feels remotely real.

R's droll narration could have been smug and disingenuous, if it were not genuinely funny.

I would like to say that the film is as if Michael Haneke directed Rear Window, but I fear that may both oversell the film and be a bit disingenuous to both the film and its director.

She seems wooden and a bit fake to me, even though I also wonder if the character isn't supposed to be very fake and often disingenuous, thus making it a perfect performance).