Sentences with phrase «in screeds»

THE DISAPPEARANCE OF ELEANOR RIGBY: HIM: One good film stretched to two, doing little with second POV and insisting on having characters speak in screeds.

In this screed, the author beat the dead horse of the NTR Metals gold import scheme.

I just saw the word «liberal» in your screed.

I tried to find its significance in the screed but unsuccessfully.

Not exact matches

37Signals is a great little software company based in Chicago, and it's founder Jason Fried, a must - read business blogger, is always up for a good screed.

The Warwickshire police recently produced a new mission statement; to the police chief's dismay, the resulting 1,200 - word screed gained the attention of the media and was nominated for the Golden Bull Award «for excellence in gobbledygook» from the Plain English Campaign, a group that helps organizations to provide clear communications.

Some people said the screed, directed at CEO Jeremy Stoppelman, drew attention to prevalent wage issues in the area; others accused the employee of acting entitled and failing to find better or more work or a place to live that costs less than her current $ 1,245 rent.

In November, musician Damon Krukowski penned a frustrated screed about the grand sum of 21 cents received from Pandora for the 7,800 times one of his band's songs was played on the service.

I've read many political screeds blaming Sarbanes - Oxley for the current state of affairs, but in my view, that perspective is wildly exaggerated by those with political axes to grind.

Credentials like being a core developer for Bitcoin did not stop Mike Hearn from going to work for banks and publishing a lengthily screed full of lies in the process.

To advocate self - help, to argue that affirmative action can not be a long - run solution to the problem of racial inequality, to suggest that some of what is transpiring in black communities reflects a spiritual malaise, to note that fundamental change will require that individual lives be transformed in ways that governments are ill - suited to do, to urge that we must look to how black men and women are relating to each other, how parents are bringing up their children, that we have to ask ourselves what values inform the behavior of our youth» to do these things is not to take a partisan position, or vent some neoconservative ideological screed.

So far the deeds have yet to match the screed — Mark was absent from the pulpit the Sunday after this broke and his sermon preached on 8/16 was only done live in front of the small 8:30 pm service at Bellevue which is where his sermons are taped for distribution to the other campuses the following week.

• 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.

In fact, it is a scissors - and - paste job of outrages real and imagined in the service of a screed that displays the Anti-Defamation League and its director Abraham Foxman as reckless alarmists who play fast and loose with the trutIn fact, it is a scissors - and - paste job of outrages real and imagined in the service of a screed that displays the Anti-Defamation League and its director Abraham Foxman as reckless alarmists who play fast and loose with the trutin the service of a screed that displays the Anti-Defamation League and its director Abraham Foxman as reckless alarmists who play fast and loose with the truth.

He might plausibly have claimed that he relied on the bad reporting of another, in partial (but only partial) extenuation of his unwarranted screed.

You know I think that what Scott Lively is doing in Uganda is awful, but no one is going to read a 2600 word screed.

Capital Christians are CINOs, Christians In Name Only; they can't possibly have read the gospels because there is no way to read a capitalist screed into the words of someone whose major focus was social justice and caring for the weak.

-LSB-...] in her latest angry screed against Obama - backed school food reform (and she's written others), conservative pundit Michelle Malkin applauded District 214 for voting itself out of «the -LSB-...]

The cover photo has been rocketing through social media circles for more than a day, with screeds, pleas and jokes in tow.

Nowadays, though, someone like, say, Media Matters can pick up one of your columns and distribute it to a very different group of readers, including a few who might not share the assumptions underlying a statement like this, which you wrote yesterday in response to Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright's now - famous screed:

Sen. Craig Johnson's statement in response to Gov. David Paterson's lengthy screed on New Jersey's property tax cap deal and his call for Albany lawmakers to follow suit by publicly declaring their respective positions on the subject is worth noting.

Hours before the Observer published fresh, damaging allegations about how the various pro-Brexit campaigns colluded, possibly illegally, in the weeks before the UK's knife - edge EU referendum, Vote Leave Campaign Director Dominic Cummings published a long screed of pre-emptive defence on his blog.

The party's executive has put down a policy screed of their own (in such a last - minute fashion that it didn't make it into the conference agendas handed out to delegates) which takes precedence over the others.

In his latest screed, Skip the Supplements, he offers as settled science that «until the day comes when medical studies prove that these supplements have legitimate benefits, and until the F.D.A. has the political backing and resources to regulate them like drugs, individuals should simply steer clear.»

Co-writer Barry Levinson specializes in obvious screeds about whatever subject attracts him, and Justice suffers from his typical lack of subtlety.

However, this was weirdly marketed as a right wing screed upon its initial release in 1973 (and became a surprise runaway boxoffice hit especially a huge following within the drive - in theatre circuit in the South where some theatres ran it for over a year).

Most of the ground covered should be familiar to history buffs: Hitler's failed efforts to become a great artist, his frustration at watching his adopted country fall apart at the seams during World War I, his resolve to put Germany back on its feet by exploiting the nation's horrendous postwar economic woes and its ingrained anti-Semitism, his 1923 arrest, the publication of Hitler's virulent screed + Mein Kampf, the growing popularity of National Socialism, and the fatal error made by senile German chancellor Von Hindbenburg (Peter O'Toole) to «neutralize» Hitler by giving him a relatively unimportant political post in 1933.

Simply elaborating on the complexity of wicked fast food franchises offering naturalized Mexicans the chance to own a business and, perhaps, advance within the corporate structure while raping (again literally, with a plant super (Bobby Cannavale) putting the wood to his helpless charges) their own kind in the production - side would have instantly transformed Fast Food Nation into a thoughtful examination of the impossibility of our industrialized situation instead of an inchoate screed delivered by idiots to like - minded idiots.

ATLAS SHRUGGED PART I Rather than take the time to come up with something witty to write about this heavy - handed screed that boasts all the production values of a bad made - for - TV movie from the early 1980s, I'll just substitute the word «novels» with «films» in this popular quote and be done with it: «There are two films that can change a 14 - year - old's life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged.

Blanchett plays 13 characters performing screeds by the likes of Marx and Debord in a hypnotically fascinating exploration of philosophy

He definitely has a vision he believes in a thousand percent - The Room is very much a personal screed for him - but Franco's film doesn't paint him as either fully sympathetic or tyrannical.

It presents a future in 2022 that seems unlikely not because we're not currently on the verge of some great ecological disaster, but because rough math suggests that the Heston character would've been born the year before the film's 1973 release and thus his declaration that he'd never seen a grapefruit (or grass, or cows) should worm its way into the audience consciousness as Soylent Green's statement that it's not serious, thoughtful science - fiction, but rather soapbox and screed timed to coincide with, in 1972, the first international conference on climate change.

He's there at the behest of his perpetually concerned wife, but the attention - seeking showman in him can't help but turn the meeting into a pro-gambling screed (they're in GA not because they're gamblers, but because they're bad gamblers).

But unlike the director's earlier films, Stone no longer starts with characters and shrouds them in issues of cultural significance, but has acquiesced to being a director who conceals his primary interest in issues with thinly - veiled stories and characters that are ciphers for, again, expository revelations or political screeds.

Writer Barry Levinson specializes in obvious screeds about whatever subject attracts him, and Justice suffers from his typical lack of subtlety.

Harvey Weinstein wrote about his decision in an article for The Hollywood Reporter, which was really just a thinly veiled (if at all veiled) screed against critics and the industry for ignoring both

Harvey Weinstein wrote about his decision in an article for The Hollywood Reporter, which was really just a thinly veiled (if at all veiled) screed against critics and the industry for ignoring both Southpaw and The Woman in Gold.

But the film's influence can still be felt in films as recent as Jordan Peele's Oscar - winning, suburban screed «Get Out.»

Instead of turning the quest into a liberal screed that demands women have the same rights as men in deciding what is best for their bodies — although that part is hard to ignore — Grandma, instead, dives deep into the character of this woman.

Michael Moore's screed against the American health care system Sicko, Laura Dunn's cosmic meditation on the environment and political action The Unforeseen — MIFF 2007, Julian Temple's ultimate music documentary, Joe Strummer: The Future is Unwritten — MIFF 2007, Chris Smith's poetic parable of class and poverty The Pool — MIFF 2007, Shane Meadows pitch perfect recreation of 80's England, This is England, and finally, a year late because I saw it late, Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden's Half Nelson, which would make my top five in any year and is easily one of the best American independent films of the decade.

In an NT Live broadcast, Alan Bennett's newest play, «People,» starring Frances de la Tour, is a screed against the commodification of Britain's culture, history, and inhabitants.

Accordingly, right - wing think tanks like the Mackinac Center for Public Policy, the Heartland Institute and the Acton Institute have in recent years published screeds denouncing «the command and control mentality» of «government schools» that are «prisons for poor children.»

I feel that credibility is superior to repeated posts in online discussions that skirt evidence to promote an unwavering position (you pick out one sentence from the Ravitch evidence and do not acknowledge the central point she reinforces in my position)-- especially since all of my work is with my NAME and identity clearing standing behind my commentary v. screen - name screeds.

In a 2011 Salon.com screed, Sirota spells out his abject hatred for all things corporate, claiming that these entities are in it for «self - interest» and mentions why in three bullet pointIn a 2011 Salon.com screed, Sirota spells out his abject hatred for all things corporate, claiming that these entities are in it for «self - interest» and mentions why in three bullet pointin it for «self - interest» and mentions why in three bullet pointin three bullet points.

The fact is that the charter school wizards are quick - in / quick - out jackals who serve the interests of the corporations they serve, like Achievement First or Students First, whose only purpose is to raid the taxpayer education funds and spread their screed of wonders to come.

Education Next Editor Paul Peterson has already done his part with a screed in National Review complaining about the Obama Administration's efforts on this front.

I recently read, with great dismay, the summer screed of Gordon MacInnes on the state of education, education reform and school choice in New Jersey.

Lest you think that there is a scintilla of truth to Vogel's «we're all on the same team» claim, it is dispelled quickly in the form of a noxious and offensive screed by Jeff Bryant that's accessible on the CTA home page.

Since I've been in this business, the No. 1 online comment is always a screed about exterior style.

So why the screed against books that by your own admission are total rubbish unless you fear what they have to say or you fear that some few might eclipse your own work in depth and popularity?