Sentences with phrase «habit of blaming»

America's habit of blaming everyone else in the world for their own failures and the eternal internalised rationalising away of the high degree of entrenched cultural paranoia is simply unsustainable these days.

What O'Rahilly finds particularly irksome about public attitudes, and what he hopes his research will overturn, is our peculiar habit of blaming the victims of these ills for their misfortune.

It's not easy dealing with countless people that have a age old habit of blaming good people for things the gangsters who live amongst them do.

If we are struck by Francesca's courteous speech, we note that she is also in the habit of blaming others for her own difficulties; if we admire Farinata's magnanimity, we also note that his soul contains no room for God; if we are wrung by Pier delle Vigne's piteous narrative, we also consider that he has totally abandoned his allegiance to God for his belief in the power of his emperor; if we are moved by Brunetto Latini's devotion to his pupil, we become aware that his view of Dante's earthly mission has little of religion in it; if we are swept up in enthusiasm for the noble vigor of Ulysses, we eventually understand that he is maniacally egotistical; if we weep for Ugolino's piteous paternal feelings, we finally understand that he, too, was centrally (and damnably) concerned with himself, even at the expense of his children.

Despite our protestations to the contrary, sometimes we slip back into our old habits of blaming the other, the foreigner, or in this case, specifically, the Chinese buyers.

«These generally unfounded beliefs, as well as their habits of blame and distrust, might interfere with their ability to form close relationships,» the article cites.

Not exact matches

«While we are quick to blame debt on poor savings and bad spending habits, our study emphasizes the burden of health costs causing widespread indebtedness.

Unfortunately, in combating this false understanding of addiction, Hitchens errs to the other extreme by implying that the will remains untouched by addiction and asserting that if addicts are held merely accountable for their actions and blamed for the outcome of those actions, then «huge numbers of people will give up a bad habit even if it is difficult.»

He is particularly good at exposing the «amazingly arrogant habit of Darwinians» of «blaming the fact, instead of blaming their theory» when they encounter contrary biological facts.

It is not the teachings of Jesus Christ or Christianity which is to blame for our behavior, Christianity is a victim of our tribalistic habits which we bring into it.

Still, Balotelli also takes some of the blame for his unconvincing start in a Liverpool shirt, explaining that he is working on adapting his game to this new system and that he knows he needs to get into the habit of getting into the penalty area more.

As for Flamini, he made his choice by leaving for AC Milan when he should have been developing his game under Wenger, he's picked up too many bad habits along the way, his game was blanced befor he left but now its all aggression and no real or measured substance, thanks to the influence of Rhino Gattuso, so he's really got no one to blame, I don't blame him either, it is just what it is.

Of course, you may want to blame yourself for your child's picky eating habits, but picky eating is just part of what it mean to be a toddleOf course, you may want to blame yourself for your child's picky eating habits, but picky eating is just part of what it mean to be a toddleof what it mean to be a toddler.

Much of this Collingham blames on the changing eating habits of the North American and European societies in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Teenagers have blamed the lack of activities available to them in their local area for their lazy lifestyle habits, a survey out today suggests.

Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt squarely blamed the lag on Europe's persistent «pessimism» and its habit of «complaining all the time» rather than fixing things.

«Most people blame their busy lifestyles as the reason for their disorganization, and they aren't fully aware of why they keep falling into the same old habits.

I am a medic and my weight was YO YO because of my eating habits due to work schedule - see again I am blaming work.

Each time you eat until your stomach is super-full and judge yourself with any toxic emotion (anger, regret, guilt, blame, shame, rejection etc.), you send out the vibrational frequency of super-full stomach to your subconscious mind and re-energize the behavioral habit of overeating.

I'm a total creature of habit in the morning and I blame that on the fact that I'm simply not a morning person, so if I can make things easier, why not?!

Blaming is one of the most devastating habits seen among couples and that is exactly why things go haywire.

Where Sam Taylor - Johnson's spin on Fifty Shades of Grey put the debonair, elusive billionaire businessman on equal footing with the charmingly awkward English student cum hardware store clerk Anastasia Steele (Dakota Johnson), Fifty Shades Darker languished in its continued fidelity to James's turgid, wheel - spinning plotting, devoting most of its attention to a doomed investigation into Christian's supposed psyche and blaming his BDSM habit on a prostitute mother and the sexual tutelage of Elena (Kim Basinger), the trilogy's Mrs. Robinson figure.

Most of them are spelling glitches that I would like to blame on Apple, and my habit of writing these on my iPad with the aggressive spell - check feature turned on.

Reformers share in the blame, thanks to their habit of layering new policies upon old and shoving program after program into the current educational frame rather than replacing outmoded initiatives.

«I think the big disease of our society at the local and national level is the habit of misplaced blame coupled with decaying and eroding personal responsibility, and this spills over into the schools,» observed Nakamura.

There are a lot of times that you can blame a failure on poor maintenance habits.

But if you're avoiding credit cards altogether because you might go into debt, don't blame the credit card; instead, look at it as a reflection of your own financial habits.

I'm partially to blame because I'm not in the habit of acknowledging their every utterance.

Photographer Katherine Cambareri's photo series attempts to break the habit of victim blaming many sexual assault survivors experience.

Michelle Malkin, a conservative commentator and columnist temporarily dislocated by Colorado's devastating fires, wrote a sharp attack on «global warming blame - ologists» that mirrors a habit of some of the greens she targets: selective citation.

Ramsey took time to learn all he could about money, and he decided that he was the source of his money problems: his borrowing habits had put him at the mercy of his creditors, and he felt like he had no one to blame but himself for what happened.

But if you're avoiding credit cards altogether because you might go into debt, don't blame the credit card; instead, look at it as a reflection of your own financial habits.

This means divorcing spouses do not have to blame each other to obtain a divorce in the state; any claims of wrongful or bad spending habits are irrelevant at this stage.

When they stockpile, they then search for underlying patterns in these irritating partner habits, and come up with an explanation that is their final «You» statement of blame, e.g. «You're always talking about yourself, you don't care about me at all!»

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In reality, the helpless narcissists have a habit of externalizing blame and project their responsibility onto others.

After a period of anxiety, which they may refer to as stress, people become at increasing risk for feeling angry, blaming others for their dilemma, for depression with hopelessness about finding solutions, or for self - injurious habits like drinking and smoking, and for relationship problems.