Sentences with phrase «mendacity of»

Cox also seemed to be unaware of the mendacity of the claim about» 97 % of climate scientists....»

I disagree with Dr. Curry on the wisdom of downplaying the mendacity of some of those involved.

The older history of this data set shows the total mendacity of this UEA excuse.

The mendacity of UK's John Beddington, Robert Watson and Ed Miliband prove the point.

Some of these efforts partially succeeded but the recent climategate emails revealed the scope, tenuousness and mendacity of these strategies and the revelations as to the role of environmental advocacy groups in the IPCC has left them without real alternatives except to find the PR equivalent of a «smoking gun».

But do repeat a message which addresses the real issue, especially if it brings focus back where it belongs while exposing the mendacity of attempts to shift the focus elsewhere.

Sizer paints a compelling and dispiriting portrait of the teacher who tries to rise above the mendacity of the system.

It's not the labyrinthine audacity of Dick's delusions that so enthrals, but rather the mendacity of them.

It's funny, and it's terribly sad, and it owes its stickiness to that thing West understands about horror: that nothing feels colder than the loss of innocence to tedium, routine, and the unbearable mendacity of being.

It's a smart dissection of the western and the American conception of heroism and justice, of this popular adherence to the Old Testament to try to punish all the hatred and mendacity of the world, no matter that the avatar of justice is a whiskey - pickled, one - eyed serial killer.

Beau Travail transliterates Herman Melville's low - key homoerotic sailor tale Billy Budd, in which Melville wrestles, for the final time, with the magnanimity of God and the mendacity of man, as a vituperative study of imperialism and militarism as wanton outlets for flimsy masculinity.

How else can one explain the heartless mendacity of the House's Trumpcare bill, the American Healthcare Act, which strips away health security for millions of people in exchange for billions of dollars in tax cuts for the wealthiest few?

With each passing month, new and troubling questions are raised about the mendacity of the FBI and the incompetence of Attorney General Reno in responding to the Waco crisis.

Accustomed as I am to the mendacities of politicians, even I am now faintly staggered that at the very same time as Baron Mandelson was trying to dismiss my book as fiction, he was furtively rushing together his own «memoir» which confirms by repetition several of the episodes first revealed in The End of the Party.

Not exact matches

The secular world, lacking any vocabulary of mercy, is forced into mendacity.

Laqueur is right, I think, about the mendacity stains on the antismoking crusade, and about the link with the denial of death.

Contemporary conservatives and liberals alike are not just mistaken in their understanding of politics; they are for the most part venal sellouts for whom hypocrisy and mendacity are second nature.

They believe that, as a result of the booming economy, a new management science not taught at business schools has arisen over the past decade: «managed mendacity.»

Hubris, mendacity and social hypocrisy in the service of irresponsible institutional power are the character of its contents by which this is accomplished.

They see that some of us are so self - interested, and so self - protective, that we will ally ourselves with someone who violates all that is sacred to us — in hope, almost certainly a vain hope given his mendacity and record of betrayal, that his rule will save us.

Then we have the Christians, the most guilty in manipulation, mendacity, perversion and a host of other atrocities.

Some proponents of Trump have taken this line, supposing that his personal repulsiveness, crazed inconsistencies, and mercenary mendacity are just the disrupting tonic needed for a morally self - deluding era.

The definitional slicing and dicing, the claim that the instruction means by «maturity» that one is happy being gay, rather than that, as it explicitly says, deep - seated same - sex desire is evidence of an «unfinished adolescence» — it is all evasion and mendacity.

Mr. Goodman's «public tranquility» is the stillness of cynical mendacity.

There is a smell of mendacity surrounding much of the response to the instruction.

Obama has become one of our very worst presidents, particularly in his unprecedented degree of mendacity - employment and his sickening shamelessness about it, a disgrace related to his exacerbating his party's habit of reality - denial about fiscal, labor, and other economy - shaping policies.

(This is much different that the violent revolution that only seeks to alter the exalted political structure, as politics is, and can only be, the profession of mendacity in opposition to Truth).

All of which is deeply moving, even as it throws into sharp relief the fecklessness of Washington, Brussels, London, Paris, and Berlin in addressing Vladimir Putin's mendacity, aggression, and brutality.

«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.

I can't decide whether Jenkin's inane boast is the result of ignorance or mendacity.

The latest mendacity from MANA is this piece of junk, Understanding Outliers In Home Birth Research.

The cause is a mixture of frustration, delusion, mendacity, and bloody - mindedness.

Since 1997, New Labour have taken the art of spin and refined it to a new degree of mendacity.

The level of mendacity and prevarication alone in the run - up to the 2016 elections are simply outrageous and mind - boggling.

If he is not lecturing, talking down to or insulting the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) and Christian leaders or trying to convince the world that there is no islamisation agenda in Nigeria he is resorting to the most disgusting and shameful mendacities.

His single tenure was covered in a mountain of mendacity by the manipulators of sectional press and political blackmail.

What you will not find in her report is a weighing of the governor's mendacity in the context of other whoppers by contemporary public servants.

Even so, who could have imagined, when the appalling era of mendacity that marked Campbell's tenure in Downing Street finally ended, that a new one would start a few years later?

But recent studies on primates and preschool children suggest that the development of mendacity is more subtle than this and may have its roots deep in our evolutionary past.

What bothers Matloff is not immigration or national origin, but waste, unfairness, and mendacity — all major elements, he believes, of today's technical and scientific labor markets.

Steve: I mean, even if you cut these guys all the slack in the world, and say that they were sincere in their efforts and there was no mendacity involved, then the movie is just sort of incompetent in its presentation of the issue and of whatever science it tries to get into which is, you know, very little, but that's it.

I am somewhat hesitant to attempt to describe this... peculiar concoction for fear of being accused of base mendacity.

The third character — The Post itself — reaches its moment of destiny when it is gallingly beaten to a great story as the New York Times announces it has documentary proof of government mendacity on Vietnam.

by Walter Chaw Philip Seymour Hoffman is Dante and the slings and arrows of mendacity are his Virgil, chasing him through the inferno of his day to day.

It's not a masterpiece, but it is a rarity: one of those glimpses into another culture obsessed with ordinariness, mendacity, and universality.

In a portrayal that mocks the beliefs of the spiritual community, Mark manufactures what he considers to be his biggest and best mendacity ever.

Going forward, I'm curious to see if Robbie will gravitate toward similar characters, with the type of intensity and mendacity that allows for a fascinating consideration of beauty — particularly as currency and how it shapes a woman's life.

But like all of Anderson's work, the current film seems best described as coitus interruptus — congress interrupted at the moment of climax by the director's peculiar fixation on mendacity in favour of the supernatural.

Very, very interesting... because of what it tells about effectiveness of the «mendacity environment» and the soundness of ExxonMobil et al.'s modest investment in it.

The rule of Big Money and its attendant culture of cupidity and mendacity has so poisoned our hearts, minds and souls that a dominant self - righteous neoliberal soulcraft of smartness, dollars and bombs thrives with little opposition.