Sentences with phrase «more pejorative»

Originally it meant the science of ideas; but shrewd politicians like Napoleon Bonaparte corrupted it to mean something more pejorative, even sinister.

Such a picture is, however, just a more pejorative caricature of the Durkheim and Marxist theses that the vitality of religion stands in inverse ratio to society's progressive «development.»

Not exact matches

Instead of running ads, they would define Scheer more slowly, over time, with a series of forced choices in Parliament, through government motions, much as opposition parties usually seek to define governments (you'll note that «define» in Ottawa politics is almost always pejorative by implication) through clever use of their occasional opportunity to define a day's parliamentary debate through so - called «supply motions.»

«Gay marriage» is more often used to be disparaging, as «gay» is widely used these days as a general pejorative.

Now it would be a great mistake to attribute this difficulty solely or even primarily to so - called Muslim «fundamentalism» (which is probably a pejorative misnomer in any case); in a more basic sense, the difficulty is due to the intense integration of religion with every aspect of culture and society in the Islamic view of the world.

Across the religious world, the word secular, now used in a positive, not pejorative, sense and the word city, now used as if far more promising than anything rural, agrarian, or traditional, rang out on everybody's lips.

The word cult isn't necessarily a pejorative any more than the word socialism is... it's only so in the eyes of self - righteous hypocrites such as Republicans in general.

WWE's foray into niche programming runs deeper than this, too: they have NXT, which seems even more like minor league wrestling — and not in a pejorative sense — since the brand split helped strip the roster for parts, leaving behind many still learning the craft.

The U-turn, as such, is little more than an illogical pejorative that defines the position of those of us who use it (guilty), rather than defining the target of the pejorative.

It is frequently used by opponents as a pejorative synonym for the more general «animal testing».

It was a weird gift, a bunch of durapaceous pejoratives that more than anything underscored the conscious attempt by Tinubuists to rewrite History before our very eyes.

Again, this may suggest that Madden and Lenhart's (2006) conclusions about societal views of online dating more accurately represent people's real attitudes toward finding romance on the Internet than do the conclusions of scholars such as Anderson (2005) and Wildermuth (2001, 2004) such that — for persons of any age — online daters are no longer viewed in the pejorative terms they once were.

A more cynical view: Stan's fanbase is predominantly young and female, a demographic dismissed in every circle, from fandom to serious drama — hence the pejorative «chick flick».

He went big and weighty in 2015 with Spotlight, but McCarthy's small - scale debut could hardly be more different, the rare kind of quirky indie drama where such a label isn't a pejorative.

To be a perfectionist is a pejorative in modern society more often than not, a sign of ego and of unnatural drive bordering on insanity.

It's time to bury the pejorative «wild west» metaphor for choice programs that are only «wild» relative to other, even more hamstrung regimes.

This is the not the first time Gobel has reframed the image of larger men into something more sumptuous and less pejorative.

I find these charges of «alarmism» by right - leaning pundits and «cherry picking» by conservatives like, Roger Pielke Jr., as little more than pejorative labelling.

«My view is, frankly, that people in law schools know more about teaching and learning and training than most members of the law society, and I don't mean that to sound pejorative at all, but we all have our areas of expertise.»

Perhaps more significantly, it does send a strong signal to the Federal government against arbitrarily labeling public individuals with the highly contentious and pejorative term of «terrorist.»

What's refreshing about his analysis is that he is far more objective and much less pejorative that than other commentators on the subject.