Yet, as Festinger would have predicted, instead of falling silent, perhaps even admitting error, the denialists have become
more vehement in their attacks on climate scientists, environmentalists and anyone who accepts the evidence for global warming.
Painter Charles Thompson, one of the leaders of the Stuckist movement which has set itself up in opposition to what it calls the «Serota - Saatchi axis», was even
more vehement.
I have always thought that the far left and far right need each other, desperately, for if either one were to vanish the other would lose its reason to exist, a conviction that has freshened in me from year to year, as each grows ever
more vehement in its search for somebody to hate.
Lord McNally, the Lib Dem justice minister, who deals with human rights legislation, is growing
more vehement in his insistence that the Tories have to realise they did not win an outright majority last year.
Although a few of the responses were
more vehement than others, it was all pretty tame in the grand view of Babywise discussions.
With the Reds pretty much out of the Premier League title race and unlikely to win the Champions League this season, Coutinho could be
more vehement in his desire to swap Anfield for Camp Nou in January, if indeed Barcelona make an offer.
Perhaps referring to some of
the more vehement post-Regensburg reaction the Archbishop of Westminster affirmed that dialogue is only fruitful when everyone involved feels able to say what he or she believes.
I've said more than once that,
the more vehement an economist's criticisms of the gold standard, the more likely he or she knows little about it.
But you could see the criticism beginning to mount and grow
more vehement, in 2006, 2007, 2008, where you even had groups with industry members on them saying, «Look, the scale of growth is out of control.»
Meanwhile, complaints of mismanagement, nearly as old as the agency itself, have grown
more vehement; in particular, they still swirl around the difficulties processing Hurricane Katrina recovery loans.
Not exact matches
In estimating the religious character of individuals, nations, or races, the first question is, not how they feel, but what they think and believe — not whether their religion is one which manifests itself in emotions,
more or less
vehement and enthusiastic, but what are the conceptions of God and divine things by which these emotions are called forth.
The protests may not have been too
vehement but they have been around for years and
more so than ever this season, while the main reason for most fans not being too full on about it is because of the respect that the prof has earned for his 20 years in charge.
A
vehement critical backlash however, deemed its substandard literary qualities
more offensive than its erotic content, its low - cultural value merely providing pabulum for the gendered masses.
Hatley and Dauphiné, it seems, have
more than that 2010 paper — and their
vehement opposition to TNR — in common: both of them seems perfectly willing to disown their work when it seems advantageous to do so.
But what caused even
more of a stir was Mr Pearson Wright's
vehement attack on Sir Nicholas Serota, director of the Tate Gallery, the day after picking up his cheque.
This mood need not betray itself in a sense of anguish and violent pictorial expression alone; it can also embrace
more pacific attitudes and less
vehement pictorial means, depending upon the individual.
As the New York Times» Mike Nizza noted, a long - term solution, which would have to involve recycling,
more incinerators and
more dumps at the very least, will be difficult to reach given the residents»
vehement disapproval of any move taken to clean up the situation.
We have this president doing
more than any other previous president has, but we have this very
vehement backlash from the right against any climate action.
Whilst we readily understand that victims who were eventually vindicated would find such comments upsetting, we think that great care needs to be taken by sentencing courts not to elevate denials, albeit
vehement, into something deserving of further punishment in the absence of some
more explicit traducing of the victim.