Sentences with phrase «meanness by»

If the rule «don't be mean» is imposed and everyone endeavors to follow that rule, it's very likely that the result is a better understanding of the meanness by virtue of its absence

If the rule «don't be mean» is imposed and everyone endeavors to follow that rule, it's very likely that the result is a better understanding of the meanness by virtue of its absence and the creative challenge of having to figure out how else to move forward.

But I suspect that she is more the type to be compassionate to others than to pass along the meanness by laughing at them when they drop dishes.

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«Well aware that the opinions and belief of men depend not on their own will, but follow involuntarily the evidence proposed to their minds; that Almighty God hath created the mind free, and manifested his supreme will that free it shall remain by making it altogether insusceptible of restraint; that all attempts to influence it by temporal punishments, or burthens, or by civil incapacitations, tend only to beget habits of hypocrisy and meanness, and are a departure from the plan of the holy author of our religion, who being lord both of body and mind, yet chose not to propagate it by coercions on either, as was in his Almighty power to do, but to extend it by its influence on reason alone; that the impious presumption of legislators and rulers, civil as well as ecclesiastical, who, being themselves but fallible and uninspired men, have assumed dominion over the faith of others, setting up their own opinions and modes of thinking as the only true and infallible, and as such endeavoring to impose them on others, hath established and maintained false religions over the greatest part of the world and through all time.»

Whereas the text of that 1997 Garden Grove passion sought to dilute the theological notion of sin (and edited it out of the Lord's Prayer), Golijov diffuses the high irony of the story by excising the single «minded meanness of the temple cabal.

The worldly view always clings fast to the difference between man and man, and naturally it has no understanding of the one thing needful (for to have that is spirituality), and therefore no understanding of the narrowness and meanness of mind which is exemplified in having lost one's self — not by evaporation in the infinite, but by being entirely finitized, by having become, instead of a self, a number, just one man more, one more repetition of this everlasting Einerlei.

We would no less need an analogous social order that was perfect in its own way but that, at a minimum, did not kill us by war and violence or spoil life by meanness and other forms of private misery.

It is meanness and self - absorption that Jesus wants to cure in us by getting us to move beyond ourselves to the peripheries, to his Father and to others, this is the ultimate metanoia, or conversion, which is worshipping God «in Spirit and Truth».

But if we knew there was God and we knew that he knew, and yet our meanness and spite and empty pride waxed unabated by this knowledge, as they always seem to do, the presence of God would be more than we could stand.

While transcendentalism represented an intellectual effort to overcome the base material world with all its ugliness, meanness, and disorder, another movement arose among the uneducated which attempted to overcome the sinful reality of life by preaching the immediate coming of the Lord Jesus Christ and the end of the world.

Those in the practical fields accomplish this adjudication by testing against «the psychological disabilities, the power plays and hidden interests, the structural constrictions, and the stinginess and meanness that preoccupies much of life in every context» — in short, by encounter with «sin, and the need for salvation.»

I and my fellow church members, whom the all knowing fishon and steve martin would certainly disapprove of, got a taste of that meanness this past weekend when our church was picketed by «Operation Save America», which has ties to domestic terror.

Even though they're disturbed by conflict and meanness between their parents, kids are inevitably curious - and ill - equipped to understand these adult matters.

For the most part, the set - up works as the Will Ferrell - voiced lead is a sympathetic villain, warped by both his prison upbringing and the arrogance and meanness of his childhood rival Metro Man (Brad Pitt).

When Blake arrives at his destination — a nightmarishly squalid settlement of festering meanness and pollution — he's told derisively by both Dickinson (Robert Mitchum), the blustering, hostile metal - works owner, and one of his henchmen (John Hurt) that they no longer need an accountant, having filled the position some time ago.

Juxtaposed with the torment endured by his grandson and daughter - in - law as the kidnappers start to lose their patience, the aging tycoon's meanness skirts close to being a proper comic device.

The disturbing Harry Potter 2 boasts of a Holocaust subtext as rich and fertile as the Lodz Ghetto parable imbedded in George Miller's remarkable Babe: Pig in the City, and it features a betrayal by a Freudian dream symbol of a castrating mother (a giant spider) in an allegorical womb that is haunting in its uncompromising meanness.

Our work is polluted by lots of meanness, and blogs and their comment sections seem to manufacture venom.

A statement of principle associated with the story — For example, The Book of Ruth by Jane Hamilton discusses the meanness in people's hearts.

I may here be met by an objection derived from electioneering, intrigues, the meanness of candidates, and the calumnies of their opponents.

Act Of Meanness / Lost by a Nose / Co-Mammas / The Internet and Hate Speech 1.

Even though they're disturbed by conflict and meanness between their parents, kids are inevitably curious - and ill - equipped to understand these adult matters.