Sentences with word «effrontery»

That such effrontery provokes so little outrage is an indication of how successful academic brainwashing has been.

«This is simplistic, deliberate misinformation, and simple brain - washing techniques that the BBC has the bare faced effrontery to produced at tax - payers expense.

It is somewhat of an anomaly for the Bronx - born director, sheathed as it is in a black - and - white, expressionistic cloak, but it's thrown at you with the same moral, guttersnipe effrontery as Bad Lieutenant and Fear City.

Having allowed the scrivener in his «mild effrontery» to remain after the first noncompliance, he is incapable of firing him, even as what Bartleby prefers not to do escalates.

Boldly he confronted the sacred tradition and said repeatedly: «You have heard that it was said... but I say...» This rash effrontery was more than some conscientiously could stand; their whole sense of what was sacred made them enemies of this bold impostor — as he seemed to them.

When the word indwells us, we as individual Christians, and as Christians in a corporate group, may without effrontery say, «We are the message.»

We greet each new effrontery with the same kind of nonchalance - approaching - nihilism.

Their indictment is handed down within the framework of a trickily jumbled, retrospective mystery story that traces Linden's messy love affair with a young hussy, Milena Flaherty, impersonated with amusing carnal presumption by Theresa Russell, whose effrontery is not unworthy of its prototype, Marlene Dietrich as Lola Lola.

He sparks to their passion and stands up to Jordan's electric effrontery as Killmonger.

But the award for effrontery has to go to American Federation of Teachers president Randi Weingarten.

Shock can be an insight so strong that it makes the raised eyebrows and wrinkled noses of reacting to mere effrontery seem like child's play.

And the AFT has the bold - faced effrontery to lay blame for money flying away at the feet of Pennsylvania Gov. Corbett, in the accompanying ad (which ran in the Patriot - News, a Pennsylvania newspaper).

(There are some exceptions to the rule, as certain tumor viruses demonstrate — see the sad, heroic tale of Nobel laureate Howard Martin Temin, who had the effrontery to challenge said dogma.)

Consider how the dominant Christian churches were scandalized by the Mennonites and Quakers who had the effrontery to actually behave like Christians.

This effrontery provokes an attempt to arrest him; it also provokes a sort of partial belief based on the miracles, particularly the one (5:1 - 18) under discussion (7:31).

Deviating from the establishment position, she wrote about embryonic stem cell research in First Things («What We Know About Embryonic Stem Cells,» January 2007) andfor her effrontery was attacked by the scientific establishment.

Hugo Grotius, the seventeenth «century Dutch Protestant who is generally taken to be the first modern writer to transpose the Stoic doctrine of natural law into the more modern key of natural rights, explains the passage as asserting that justice itself stands over God; and» in a fateful move» Grotius also goes on to say that natural rights would hold «even if we were to have the effrontery to say there is no God.»

Elihu (whose speeches were discovered in the caves at Qumran) not only presents himself as a critic of the three friends, but he has the effrontery to offer his views as if they came from God himself.

Former First lady Nana Kondau Agyemang Rawlings has been described as the country's most corrupt woman, yet his husband has the effrontery of tagging others as such.

Calling for her resignation, he said «now you have the effrontery to term such persons nonsense all because they are giving you their CVs for employment opportunities.»

Now you have the effrontery to term such persons nonsense all because they are giving you their CVs for employment opportunities.

Allegations against Fulani herdsmen in the Benue killings and their effrontery in the kidnapping ring in many parts of the country are not proactively addressed.

A daughter of the good old Harry Sawyerr of blessed memory have the effrontery to publicly humiliate Chairman Rawlings?

With the record that former president Mahama has in the area of governance, it is incredible that he would have the effrontery to talk about «419 scams»... I should note that propaganda did not help former President Mahama when he was in government and it is certainly not going to help him in opposition.

With the record that former president Mahama has in the area of governance, it is incredible that he would have the effrontery to talk about «419 scams.»

The Liberal Democrat Treasury spokesman, Vince Cable, said: «I have no time for billionaire tax dodgers who step off the plane from their tax havens into the country where they make their money and have the effrontery to tell us how to vote and how to run our tax policies.

Blimey, even the Mail's Stephen Glover is incensed at the effrontery of it.

A prominent member of the PDP had the boldness and the effrontery to go to banners of the APC welcoming you to Rivers state to physically, pull them down.

But the Commission under her watch had the effrontery to issue a statement on Monday, indicating that it would seek a review of a High Court's decision quashing their disqualification of Dr. Papa Kwesi Nduom.

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The effrontery outrages Marion; she and her husband, Larry (Tracy Letts), soon to be sacked from his computer - programming job, are already making enormous sacrifices to send their daughter to that private Catholic institution (not so much for religious reasons but owing to Mom's abject terror of public high school).

Gleeson's face is an endearing battleground of fretfulness and effrontery, and he has a fine way of following statements with a slight wince, as if incredulous at whatever has just trotted out of his mouth.

And Levin, Feinberg, Barth, Kopp, Duncan et al. have the effrontery to claim that KIPP is a model for public education?

That they have the effrontery to gift themselves such huge helpings of stock and options in the face of such a message is astonishing.

His naked, new - born baby has all the effrontery of Macbeth's metaphor for pity.

The photographs document the house — empty shelves, bare walls, the ghostly stamps of furniture on carpet — with neither effrontery nor grace, criticism nor sentiment.

One also expects the effrontery of Pop Art and color, in a gallery that specializes in artists, established or neglected, who thrived before conceptual art.

In «American Visions,» his current TV series on American art, Time magazine art critic Robert Hughes pretty much dismisses abstraction, pronouncing Mark Rothko's mid-century transcendental aspirations a failure and almost viciously baiting the long - dead Barnett Newman for having had the effrontery to aim for the stars.

The whole enterprise, here on this wall, seems so tentative, as if it were a kind of effrontery to do any more.

The effrontery of the art stars can end up coarsening even the most honorable opposition.

Not, however, due to the usual forms of effrontery, which have become, by and large, pretty old hat.

Leo Rosten in The Joys of Yiddish defines chutzpah as «gall, brazen nerve, effrontery, incredible «guts», presumption plus arrogance such as no other word and no other language can do justice to».

Christian Thalacker was having none of it, and spent the next few hours furiously Tweeting not only Michael Bloomberg but everyone whose Twitter handle he had, including Vice-President Joe Biden and the TV series House of Cards to protest this fellow Liebreich having the effrontery to be «anti-climate scientist @MichaelEMann».