Sentences with phrase «in sneering at»

On Tonight's programme we'll be inviting Chucka Umunna to join us in sneering at George Osborne.

Not exact matches

So, can I sneer at the Buddhists for their arrogance in thinking * their * way is correct?

Meanwhile, I have gravitated to a certain type of mommy - blog: one written by a stay - at - home mother, lovingly grateful to her provider - man, capably in charge of every detail of her children's lives and home: the Angel in the House, as we might have sneered back in English 101.

It featured some mountebank striding up and down in front of an audience, wisecracking and sneering at Darwinism....

The scientist must not sneer at the guy sitting in his back yard enjoying the sunset, saying, «He doesn't know anything about nature.

In fact any form of «dualism» with regard to the constitution of human nature has frequently been sneered at as philosophically dated and theologically distasteful.

«All the time not having a clue that they were being whispered against, campaigned against by both Catholics & Anglicans who made it palpably clear that this initiative was detrimental to the «dialogue towards unity» and temporarily compromised their positions as oecumenical ambassadors - that this was a counter-productive «wacked - out» scheme by an ailing Pope who merely needed to be placated until he died - hence delaying tactics, obfuscations, procedurality, red tape and making everything as difficult and administratively untenable as possible; with patronising sympathy and hand - wringing at their lot while sneering, dismissing and chuckling to themselves that the whole thing will eventually come to naught... that the administration will crumble via crises and power politics andpersonality clashes and outright frustration at the situation... and ultimately the Ordinariate will be re-integrated into the Conference system and those not happy about it will crawl back to their friends in the C of E.

It is popular among the elite Bible scholars and academy - trained theologians to sneer at the uneducated lay person who seeks to teach Scripture and theology to others as being «untrained» and therefore, unable to accurately teach others what God is like, what He says in Scripture, and how to live life in light of what we learn.

It's a useful book for students who need accurate information for the argument / debate / shouting match at the student bar, for families tackling big issues in passionate kitchen debates, and for quiet perusal before replying to the sneers of office colleagues — or even to the well - intentioned «But surely you can't believe...?»

In one respect, his presentation of Byzantium seems aimed at Gibbon, who sneered at Eastern Christian claims to be the protectors of reason and civilization.

Yet the impulse among European intellectuals since 1848 has been never to give the market its due, and to feel in fact that one is being ethical only if one sneers at market outcomes.

As he sat down in front of my desk, his eyes seemed to bore a hole straight through me, and a sneer formed at the corner of his mouth.

Finally, Hans Urs von Balthasar has it just right in The Glory of the Lord: «We can be sure that whoever sneers at [beauty] as if she were the ornament of a bourgeois past — whether he admits it or not — can no longer pray and soon will no longer be able to love.»

Please, don't let us marginalise faith in God, or ignore what Christianity offers, or sneer at the possibility that men and women can know about the deepest and greatest things.

The honeymoon, that is, between the now enfeebled and increasingly remote souls who for over a quarter of a century had carped and sneered at Pope John Paul II (and by the same token at «PanzerCardinal» Joseph Ratzinger) but who had nevertheless hoped against hope for a Pope who would be somehow reborn if not as a fully paid - up liberal, as a Pope at least who would go easy on all that counter-cultural JPII stuff about being «signs of contradiction» and about continuity with the pre-conciliar Church and who had breathlessly found (so they thought) that, lo, it was even so, in the wonders of Deus Caritas Est. «On his election last spring,» carolled The Tablet, «the former CardinalRatzinger was widely assumed to have as his papal agenda the hammering of heretics and a war on secularist relativism, subjects with which he was associated as head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.»

Let me stress again that I do not for a moment sneer at compassion; it is right to rejoice in the knowledge that God is all - merciful.

One suspects, however, that what really stings Posner and Segall is Scalia (along with Roberts, Thomas, and Alito) sneering at the priests of Baal in the theocratic majority of Obergefell.

No, it is not that, although that is the empirical expression, not to be sneered at, of the true reality of the Church, which is the supernatural organism, the divine society, in which Christ Incarnate still dwells among men, making them one with Him and thereby one with God.

Join that with a terrible lapse in education quality, and with the segment of our population who actively sneer at education and you have a flock of voters waiting to be told how to vote by whoever tells them what they want to hear.

Marxism sneers at religion as an «opium» devised by the wealthy to keep the poor meek and content in their misery.

In April 1526, he sent a letter, very pained at Luther's violent and aggressive sneers: «How do your scurrilous charges that I am an atheist, and Epicurean and a sceptic help the argument?

I've sneered at the likes of Chel - ski, Oil City, and United, due to them trying to buy All Star teams year in and year out when they don't win.

«He came in, sneered at us and yelled that we were off the squad.

Some may sneer at that, but can we name a player who in recent time helped Leeds achieve what Beckford helped achieve?

Advancement in modern football tactics, combined with an ever - growing desire from fans and clubs» paymasters for the the game to be played the «right» way, has led to crossing becoming a tactic somewhat sneered at.

It uses the terms «in theory» and «supposedly» when referring to its «bonding» function, and it practically sneers at the notion that babywearing would make a baby cry less.

Willow Brooks was just starting to breastfeed her 4 month old son Angelo when Judge Gregory Lenehan looked down upon the mom, sneering at her and telling her «don't breastfeed in the courtroom.»

People sneered at the «grocer's daughter», but in her heart I think Margaret Thatcher may have grown up to be a merchant adventurer.

A surprisingly good election campaign for the woman whose career low point was appearing to sneer at «white van man», she put in some good performances on TV and radio, including standing in for Diana Abbott when she was withdrawn from a Woman's Hour debate.

Labour and some in the Liberal Democrats might sneer at it as crowd pleasing stunts but they shouldn't ignore how much traction issues like this have on the average doorstep.

That said, every time I hear someone sneer that the news of Pakistan or India's imminent implosion has been grossly exaggerated, I am reminded of a lecture by Carl Sagan in the Forum of the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard, many years ago.

Now that Sturgeon has demanded a second referendum, the Westminster Right swings between snickering at the supposed naivety of the silly «nats» and raging at their refusal to enthusiastically partake in our brave new Brexit Britain - all the while sneering at the supposed subsidy junkies north of Hadrian's Wall.

Labour shadow ministers who sneered at the idea they might offer Proportional Representation to the Libdems, on the eve of the election, will now have to face the fact that only permanent coalition politics or electoral reform can give them a chance to rule in future.

With that review now over, the city has decided the best course is to integrate the two agencies, and leave Mr. Banks in charge of both — even though a Cuomo spokesperson sneered at Mr. Banks, a former Legal Aid attorney, as part of the city's «management problem.»

«A bit of local colour,» sneers a theatrical old boozer, Jack, to his drinking partners in their local, an at once cosy and lonely Irish pub which provides The Weir's sole setting.

The two had crossed paths at a party gathering in Rosendale without incident, but how would they react on the big stage, with stares, glares, sneers?

In the House magazine interview two months ago, Mr McGinn accused left - wing politicians of «sneering» at the public and warned Mr Corbyn that Labour is losing touch with working class voters.

Yesterday he made a speech at 8.47 pm at night, when most sensible people were already a pint and a packet of mini Cheddars down, about a local issue that is causing a good deal of distress to his constituents risking, in doing so, the muttered barbed and sneers reserved for the mighty who've fallen.

It is in the nature of cynical Britain to sneer at such sentimental American notions, but it does remind us that there are many, many people who could do my job as a politician and probably do it a great deal better, but no one else can be a father to my children.

However, the attacks on Peter Tatchell were essentialist, a sneer at what he was, a member of a suspect class, and in that sense very old fashioned.

My, how we sneer at the Tories» lack of electoral success in the north, yet as the report points out, 43 % of voters in the south said they would never vote Labour (the same figure for voters in the north who would never vote Conservative).

If in the TV debates at the next election the other parties» candidates turned on any of the current Labour leadership contenders and sneered «You're no John Kennedy», what answer would they have?»

Moreover, if people are supporting Ukip in such large numbers — even after the media's massed guns have been rattling at it for weeks — it is probably time to drop all the sneering and think about why.

Tory MP Kevin Foster last night said: «These comments sum up the attitude of a left wing metropolitan elite who sneer at those who take pride in our nation being a global power and sitting at the world's top tables.

The Islington South MP, who courted controversy after sneering at the White Van Man in 2014, said Labour's national executive committee has attempted to rig the leadership contest by attempting to stop Mr Corbyn from standing.

Thanks to a team of Dutch researchers, never again will self - hatred overcome a young man as he wanders the aisles at Staples, that nasty, sneering voice in his head demanding to be told why he has spent an afternoon considering various shades of Post-it Notes rather than figuring out how to save the world through love.

The 1.5 - kilowatt solar - panel system will produce enough electricity for you and your plug - in hybrid car, and the dwelling is built off - site, which reduces construction waste by up to 75 percent (remember that the next time you sneer at the local trailer park).

I hope I can now take a plastic bag from the supermarket without getting sneered at, secure in the knowledge that in 100 years the bag will crumble to dust.

But he does suggest that the scientists» ability to understand climate change — whose impact is far more pronounced in the Arctic — is hampered by their tendency to sneer at anecdotal evidence.

Dieters flock to the gurus that promise 12 to 15 pounds of weight loss in the first two weeks, while sneering at the idea of losing a paltry 2 pounds of fat per week.