Sentences with phrase «meanness of»

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

An intellectual laziness and a meanness of spirit I have noted before.

Good performances and occasional moments of hilarity don't make up for the meanness of the status quo at the film's centre.

I like movies that dig deep into the meanness of people but this one was just a little too much for me.

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).

Liberal Democrat work and pensions spokesman Steve Webb said rising unemployment had exposed the meanness of the benefits system.

I come from the veterinary world, not the human medicine one, but the tone / content / downright meanness of this series of comments reminds me of things that happen in the dog / puppy world as well.

Within Wenger there is a meanness of spirit; he is almost a French version of Victor Meldrew.

No Vic, it is just the same meanness of spirit that frustrates you when you see anti-theists attack someone's beliefs rather than their comments or ideas.

There are plenty of so - called «Christians» with the same meanness of spirit who lurk on the internet spoiling for a fight.

But where is the cure for meanness of spirit?

He promptly seized every opportunity which could advance his design, without regarding the meanness of occupation or appearance.

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.

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 transfigured one's visit to you as an individual will give you that courage of frankness — but what am I speaking of — and if you actively consider the occasion of this talk, then you will stand as an individual before a still more exalted one who, none the less, thinks still more humanly — about the meanness of the occupation, but also infinitely more purely about which occupation is truly honorable.

Here too there is meanness of spirit.

Not exact matches

... He's a self - promoting huckster who found a vein, a vein of meanness and nastiness.»

Denial of your own meanness and actively engaged in the efforts to deny the liberties of others.

«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.»

Meanness is your only response because you can not face the idea of having to go out and become educated.

I still love you even with your complex mix of kindness, meanness, humor, ego - centrism, temper and need to be a liked pastor [naked or otherwise].

But none of that is cause for condescension or meanness.

Lest, however, we who do not share that anxiety become exultant in the afflatus of our superiority let us remind ourselves that we, too, have our own absurd beliefs and our own selfishnesses and childishnesses and meannesses.

This isn't about the effectiveness of Paul's meanness.

Instead of finding caring and loving, they found disinterest at best, meanness, hatred, anger, and judgment at worst.

All of this manipulative meanness not only takes a lot of effort, but actually robs us of the joy of giving.

Jesus told us in Mark 7:14 - 23 what will defile the man, not things that you take into the body, but the things that come from within, out of the heart, evil things such as hate for others around us, prejudice, unforgiveness, meanness, pride, lying, wanting to have what belongs to others, all those unloving things that come from out of the heart.

I am sick of a bunch of stupid bigots who try to claim that their ignorance, their bigotry, their selfishness, and their meanness is, in any way, superior.

Here of course it is only a question of ethical meanness and narrowness.

I have no delusions about the levels of meanness, self - centeredness, and blatant opportunism that people can sink to, believers and unbelievers alike, and how much it can hurt others.

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.

His later works show him implacable to the whole system of official values: the ignobility of fashionable life; the infamies of empire; the spuriousness of the church, the vain conceit of the professions; the meannesses and cruelties that go with great success; and every other pompous crime and lying institution of this world.

All these advanced at the expense of mainstream Protestantism, which tried a bit to be mean, but meanness didn't stick.

«The power of words as an event is that they can touch and change our very life, when one man tells another, and thus shares with another, something of his own life, his willing and loving and hoping, his joy and sorrow, but also his hardness and hates, his meanness and wickedness.»

Yet consider the alternative: the meanness and shortsightedness of many people who did not dream dreams like the editors.

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.

«Scapegoat Time,» wrote Bob Herbert of the New York Times, while Anna Quindlen evoked the left's favorite image for Republicans with «The Politics of meanness.»

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.

But only someone who has enjoyed the advantages of leisure and cultivation will be able to avoid meanness and lowness altogether.

But couldn't these little burps of silliness actually betray belches from a deeper abyss of ignorance, arrogance, and meanness?

The Spirit of politics and the lust of dogmatic rule are then apt to enter and to contaminate the originally innocent thing; so that when we hear the word «religion» nowadays, we think inevitably of some «church» or other; and to some persons the word «church» suggests so much hypocrisy and tyranny and meanness and tenacity of superstition that in a wholesale undiscerning way they glory in saying that they are «down» on religion altogether.

Of Ingratitude and Meanness, 9.

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.»

You have cherry picked verses out of context in order to weave a picture of meanness that is not there.

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.

nakedpastor July 21, 2011 10:05 pm the meanness comes in when we feel we can say nasty things and not take ownership ------ Well now, David, I take full ownership of what I say and believe.

It is the special privilege of the sportswriter as opposed to the ordinary reporter to view the workaday world of struggle, conflict, sacrifice and triumph in a form stripped of the real world's meanness and ugliness.

If he has the gall to bargain with a free transfer threat, good for him, finally the boy has become a man, and he just needs a bit of meanness.

«He's been telling you lies, then,» said Si √ ¥ n, and wandered off into a short biography of his cousin that featured the latter's meanness and mendacity.

The hate - Miami atmosphere had become so volatile that Notre Dame administrators declared the pregame days to be Spirit Week, a sort of rah - rah alternative to overt meanness.