Sentences with phrase «in venality»
That the picture is charming in its venality is the mark of Wilde, and surely some credit is due to Barker (in spite of the unnecessary transplant to computer - enhanced Amalfi, justified by a Hunt speech calling it «Land of the Sirens»).
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Writing about the data misuse scandal in the Harvard Law Review, David Vladeck, the FTC's former director, argues there are now only two interpretations of Facebook's actions vis - a-vis data protection and user privacy: Cluelessness or venality.
They want freedom to act in their interests without hindrance, to take advantage of fellow citizens, their venality hidden and victims believing that if you're not doing well it's your own fault - the marketplace has tested you and found you wanting.
Its experience of the extent to which human brutality can go, of the fury that can be unleashed when the human animal is attacked, its acceptance in wry cynicism of the venality of great and small; its acceptance, too, of a psychological analysis that tends to show how slight the power of reason, how great the strength of obscure passions; how corrupting of children the possible love of mothers and the wrath of fathers; its portrayal of men and mankind in bitterly disillusioned novels and in shuddering chronicles of man's inhumanity to man — in all this the 20th century has perhaps gone beyond anything that Edwards said in dispraise of men, individually and in the collective.
Citizens should demand serious proposals in exchange for their votes, not just proofs of the other candidate's venality.
The Book of the Acts of the Apostles and the Epistles in the New Testament make abundantly clear that contemporary church politics has no corner on venality, corruption, and partisan spirit; yet the power of Scripture is that it portrays a community for which the resurrection is not just a promise but a reality — in which, that is to say, the Spirit dwells.
A great deal of Holloway's argument is about the inescapability of human venality, especially in politics.
A preference for the freshness and immediacy of experience in reaction to the meaninglessness or venality of traditional faith is hardly new, of course.
«They act like stenographers of Preet Bharara's news conferences, instead heeding his request that they start investigations because prosecutors alone can't end political venality,» blogged Tilzer, who is based in Brooklyn.
Consider that the picture is in many ways an attack on the all - invasive venality of television and then think hard about how this juxtaposition speaks of the actress, the value of the director's opinion of the actress, and, fast - following, of how we take Cundey's remembrance of Perkins as the star of movies that he studied in film school.
Rewriting a Charles Randolph script already commissioned by Brad Pitt's company, Plan B (Pitt has a cameo as the film's quasi-counterculture conscience), McKay turns Lewis's dense source into a blackly catastrophic comedy, a story of greed, venality, incompetence and barefaced corruption in which the good guys are the renegades who see disaster coming and stake their shirts on the apocalypse.
More than the infantilization of culture or the venality of capitalism, the ranks of staff film reviewers are being thinned because the position as it is currently structured really is depreciating in value.
Wouldn't it be more effective to answer the challengers, some of whom are highly credentialed climate scientists in their own right, with scientific data and arguments, instead of snide insinuations of venality and deceit?
In fact, the argument about the venality of the academy is largely a diversion.
Writing about the data misuse scandal in the Harvard Law Review, David Vladeck, the FTC's former director, argues there are now only two interpretations of Facebook's actions vis - a-vis data protection and user privacy: Cluelessness or venality.