Sentences with phrase «from pejorative»

Please refrain from the pejorative term «skeptic» to apply to me.

Indeed both she and her immediate predecessor, Anne of Cleves, suffer the worst from pejorative verdicts of history.

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In the first chapter, he reclaims the word dogma from its popular pejorative meaning, defining it as an accurate statement of what is true, and setting out the relation between philosophy and theology that frames the rest of the book.

«The term atheism originated from the Greek ἄθεος (atheos), meaning «without god (s)», used as a pejorative term applied to those thought to reject the gods worshipped by the larger society.»

Paul's highly pejorative description of homosexual practice in Romans 1:24 - 27 — «dishonorable» or «degrading,» «contrary to nature,» an «indecency» or «shameful / obscene behavior,» and a fit «payback» for straying from God — suggests that Paul regarded homosexual practice as an especially serious infraction of God's will, in line with all Jewish perspectives of the time.

Again, he uses another intentionally loaded turn - of - phrase: «Oreo» is a pejorative that kids use against black kids who «act white,» that is, they live outside of black stereotypes by doing anything from listening to classical music to wanting to pursue higher education.

Few are aware that Christ can be conceived in ways that are free from this exclusivism and pejorative treatment of others without reducing Christ's centrality.

It would be very good to have a ceasefire from insult and the use of pejorative terms about people at this time.

The 257 - page lawsuit argues that the term «pink slime» is pejorative, preferring the phrase «finely textured lean beef» to describe a product that is essentially scraped from animal carcasses.

The Jackson comparisons also seemed to have been somewhat of a pejorative, referencing the Vincent Jackson of late who gets caught from behind.

A: Pink slime is the pejorative term for «lean finely textured beef,» a product designed to recover useful bits from carcass trimmings.

One of the problems about the pejorative use of populism as a bad thing is that it is hard to distinguish it from democracy which is supposed to be a good thing.

As a pejorative for majoritarianism, it is akin to the Latin phrase mobile vulgus meaning «the fickle crowd», from which the English term «mob» was originally derived in the 1680s.

A handful of organizations had promised to submit a formal petition to the state education commissioner asking her to remove Carl Paladino from his seat on the Buffalo Board of Education due to his pejorative comments about the outgoing president and his wife.

Foster doesn't consider «superstition» pejorative: You don't need to understand cause to benefit from a behavior.

A more cynical view: Stan's fanbase is predominantly young and female, a demographic dismissed in every circle, from fandom to serious drama — hence the pejorative «chick flick».

The only real departure from PDK's approach is that government funding is described in some neutral way, without the pejorative «at public expense» — a phrase that no one but PDK is inclined to use.

In the last show of the year, titled «Becoming,» we were treated to fanciful endeavors of the canvas, from big heaps of brushstrokes in Deborah Brown's historical references to Gregory Curry's sci - fi pejoratives and spilling of delicious colors.

Like loose pages torn from a journal, the «paintings» on view are encrusted with lascivious catcalls, terms of endearment, drunken pejorative slurs, and teenage slang.

Extremely pejorative, and the analogy is miles away from being anything close to accurate.

Consider the pejorative nature of this quote from Wikipedia:

C'm on — stating that SMHI was «reluctant to be connected» with data that had been «processed» is pejorative beyond what can inferred from those letters.

It usually carries pejorative connotations of a willful disconnect from the everyday world: esoteric, over-specialized, or even useless research, and academic elitism.

Getting hate from your political peers who think you've gone soft has nothing to do with free - speech or the politically misaligned pejorative «McCarthyism» which is term fraught with illogical thinking and social bias to begin with.

I could provide quotes from the sites Curry mentioned that are pejorative to the point of libel — and so can you.

The case stems from St. Lewis claim that Rancourt damaged her reputation by using a pejorative term in a 2011 blog.

This week, St. Lewis won her three - year libel case against Rancourt and was awarded $ 350,000 in damages by an Ottawa civil jury, based on damages to her reputation stemming from Rancourt's use of the pejorative term in a 2011 blog.

This case involved the complaint arising from the notorious comments he made to a sexual assault complainant, and other pejorative comments about the law of sexual assault, during a trial when he was a judge of the Provincial Court of Alberta, at Calgary.

, and he didn't seem to care that the Chinese will buy oil from undemocratic, totalitarian countries with (to be pejorative) despicable justice systems if we don't sell it to them.

Drs. Katherine Bauer, Julie Lumeng, and Kendrin Sonneville from the University of Michigan offer a commentary (10.1542 / peds.2018 - 0233) that helps us better focus on helping parents who we know want to protect their children from the social and health - related consequences of becoming overweight or obese, but do so in a pejorative way.