Sentences with phrase «meanness on»

Kind of tired of the emphasis on meanness on reality shows.

It is sometimes the result of vengeance or just simple meanness on the part of a person who is one half of a romantic couple that has broken up; or it can even be merely the result of a «date gone bad.»

No meanness on him.

Not exact matches

«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.»

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.

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

On hearing that peculiar exorcism again, I responded, «Well, if the meanness is coming out, that means that the good in the person is what's left behind.»

The film's misjudged intro relies heavily on knowledge of a particular British TV show, but if audiences persevere through this awkward opening, Chalet Girl makes for untaxing, light - hearted fun that lacks the pretensions and meanness that seems to be the current flavour of comedy.

While American politics has degenerated into campaigns of limited value, based on little more than meanness, hate and hyperbole, elections should be about meaningful discussion and debate between candidates who recognize the importance of providing voters with the information they need to make informed decisions.

Throw in those interminable repetitions of the same few long debunked denier memes and a few more supposedly insignificant «eye correlations» and the pull rating on your meanness magnet becomes very high.

It gives a theory on why the internet is so mean — sound starts at 0:23, starts getting to the meat of the meanness around 7 minutes until the end: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Cz-9hJ5hig