Sentences with phrase «much a commentary on»

The fact that a time had arrived when at least one man was to «prefer a popular lectureship even to a bishopric» 72 was quite as much a commentary on the decline of the episcopal office in public esteem at is was an indication of the prestige and influence associated with an important preaching post.

And it did not say that mass screening is ineffective at catching deadly cancers, merely grossly inefficient, which is as much a commentary on the inadequacies of current screening technologies as on the ineffectiveness of blanket prescriptions.

I know there is so much commentary on the website.

Popping up throughout is a piquant group of slugs who act as surreal grace notes by way of impromptu doo - wop, sound effects, or oddly evocative emotional outbursts that are as much commentary on the action as a glimpse into what seems to be their complex inner lives.

With an engaging plot that's as much a commentary on consumerism as it is a tale of morality, Forgotton Anne's inspired narrative is backed up by some solid and engaging gameplay.

White Girl definitely earns a certain emotional response, but it doesn't offer much commentary on racial or gender issues, or on much of anything for that matter.

The closest to torture porn in this year's edition, which is as much commentary on where horror is heading as it is on how far behind the curve Jesus is.

If the film occasionally feels gaudy, pretentious, and scattered, that's as much a commentary on glam rock as anything else.

The film is very much a commentary on inequality and the distribution of wealth.

We've become so inundated with this sub-genre of mainstream cinema at this point in time that I won't dispense with much commentary on this one.

I think we also have to remember that animal advocacy images are also very much a commentary on us, not the animal.

This makes these ongoing features as much a commentary on cross-platform development as they are aiding in a purchasing decision.

There isn't much commentary on this game either unless it is your spotter on your team letting you know when a driver is about to pass you or when you are in the outside lane too much.

As much a commentary on art as culture, Hirsig layers meaning and materials into the paint by adding collaged images and fabrics: fractal - like detailing gives way to soft brushstrokes interrupted by heavy spills of paint out of which an explosion of color and texture emerges.

As much a commentary on art as culture, Hirsig layers meaning and materials into the...

Not every case where the defense wins is a prosecution doomed from the beginning, but with no reasonable analysis of the verdict detailing why it was wrong and so much commentary on why it should never have started, one does have to ask, what were the prosecutors thinking?

Jim Middlemiss seems to have broken the story first on the National Post, and it was quickly picked up by the huge American blog Above the Law, so I won't repeat all of the facts here again or provide too much commentary on the case.

Not exact matches

A furor of commentary has followed the announcement, including speculation on whether the effort will be successful, how much it matters, and who stands to gain.

While much of the commentary has focused on the message's right - leaning content, I'd much prefer to discuss something far more insidious: the fact that it happened at all.

The following commentary also appears on The Globe and Mailâ $ ™ s Global Exchange blog: What Obamaâ $ ™ s Corporate Tax Proposal Means for Canada Last week, there was much consternation in Canadaâ $ ™ s business press that some modest reversals of provincial corporate tax cuts and President Obamaâ $ ™ s proposed corporate tax changes could erode our competitiveness.

Based on Allergan's response to Valeant's prior overture, however, and as corroborated by analyst commentary in February 2014, which underscored that Allergan would not be interested merging with Valeant — particularly where Allergan's stockholders would be compensated in large part with Valeant stock — Valeant was well aware that a friendly business combination would not likely occur, and conceded as much later on.

«Too Much Noise: The Debate on Foreign Exchange Rate Variability and Policies to Control It,» C.D. Howe Institute Commentary 72, by Mark Chandler and David Laidler (October).

Financial letter writer Jay Taylor's new commentary, «How Much Longer Can the American Empire Run on Fake Money?

I don't want to spend too much time on Brexit, since people have been force - fed nonsense commentary about it for the last week.

«The real problem with investigative journalism, and one of the reasons there isn't as much of it as its partisans so desperately desire, is that it often doesn't pan out,» observes John Podhoretz, once of the Weekly Standard and now editor of Commentary, discussing a Washington Post hit job on Senator Marco Rubio.

The movie is not a heavy - handed commentary on supernatural apologetics but it does challenge the viewer to consider that there is so much we don't know, and so much more for all of us to learn.

Through much of the commentary on the death of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn last August, there was the repeated intimation - and sometimes vulgar assertion - that, after his return to Russia in 1994, he descended into crotchety old age and irrelevance.

If I were writing commentary on these texts, much of what I am writing in these posts would never come up because these Calvinistic ideas are not naturally found in them.

So far, therefore, Mark serves as a commentary on the kerygma, and explains why in even the very brief summaries of it which we have in Acts x and xiii so much stress is laid on the part taken by John the Baptist.

Indeed, that explains much of my keen disappointment in his Commentary attack on Dabru Emet.

The book carries chapters of well - thought - out commentary, written with much circumspection, on practical issues that secular pluralism in Europe forces Muslim communities to deal with.

Lear marvels that so much of what passes for commentary on Socratic irony in Plato's dialogues has to do exclusively with the question of whether Socrates dissembles, whether he wears a mask of unknowing behind which lurks either certainty about important matters or skepticism, perhaps even nihilism.

Much could be said about this topic of course, but based on some of my favorite commentaries, I've identified three influences that, for the purposes of our discussions here, should be introduced — Purim, Persia, and Patriarchy.

Dr Janet Smith, on the Catholic World Report website, gave what may be something like an authoritative commentary (worth reading at much greater length than I can quote it here) on the particular example the Pope chose, one which caused a considerable raising of eyebrows.

As Robert Jenson suggests in his commentary on Ezekiel, also part of the Brazos Theological Commentary on the Bible, this double role is not so much resolved as made clear and explicit in the crucifixion and Resurrection commentary on Ezekiel, also part of the Brazos Theological Commentary on the Bible, this double role is not so much resolved as made clear and explicit in the crucifixion and Resurrection Commentary on the Bible, this double role is not so much resolved as made clear and explicit in the crucifixion and Resurrection of Christ.

This is one reason that many Jewish Rabbi's spend their entire life studying the Law and the Talmud, which is kind - of like a practical commentary on the Law, and pretty much ignore the writings and the prophets.

Much of the retrospective commentary about Buchanan's 1996 run for president (when he finished second in the race for the Republican nomination) focuses on immigration, trade, and foreign policy.

Thanks so much for your commentary on this!

I've traveled through different theologies, read countless books and commentaries, and have reached a point in my own personal journey where I honestly feel that way too many «serious» committed Christians put far too much emphasis on theological principles than they do basic human decency.

All Year: The Bible (There are many translations available at biblegateway.com)- Anchor Bible Commentary Series - The Women's Bible Commentary, Edited by Carol A. Newsom and Sharon H. Ringe - Living Judaism: The Guide to Jewish Belief, Tradition, and Practice by Wayne D. Dosick - Women in Scripture: A Dictionary of Named and Unnamed Women in the Hebrew Bible, the Apocryphal / Deuterocanonical books, and the New Testament, Edited by Carol Meyers, Toni Cravien, and Ross Shepard Kraemer - Recovering Biblical Manhood and Womanhood, Edited by John Piper and Wayne Grudem - Discovering Biblical Equality: Complementarity Without Hierarchy, Edited by Ronald W. Pierce, Rebecca Merrill Groothuis and Gordon D. Fee - Women in the World of the Earliest Christians: Illuminating Ancient Ways of Life by Lynn Cohick - God's Word to Women by Katharine C. Bushnell - Don't Know Much About the Bible: Everything You Need to Know About the Good Book but Never Learned by Kenneth C. Davis - «On The Dignity and Vocation of Women» by Pope John Paul II - The Year of Living Biblically by A.J. Jacobs

Much of the commentary has been based on ill - informed prejudice.

I was fearing the worst after hearing the description in the radio commentary, but on the TV iimages it looked pretty much precautionary.

As much as they talked up the «looking over their shoulder» on the commentary it end of season fare being played out well before the clocks have changed.

The only problem is, they don't always have that much to contribute aside from banal parenting observations and running commentary on their kid's softball game.

Much of that scholarship and popular commentary on school lunches aspires to manage children's eating behaviors, or it descends to moralizing about mass foodways and skirts the ethnographic complexities of -LSB-...]

Much commentary has for example focused on the non-statist political practices of the anti-austerity movements, including 15 - M in Spain and Occupy in the United States and the United Kingdom.

• Much commentary has centred on Labour's win in Plymouth, forgetting to mention that Plymouth voted heavily to leave, and that over the years the council has swung between Labour, Conservative and no overall control.

In a PNAS commentary on the technique, Danielle Denisko and Michael Hoffman of the University of Toronto wrote: «iRF holds much promise as a new and effective way of detecting interactions in a variety of settings, and its use will help us ensure no branch or leaf is ever left unturned.»

For the US has witnessed an impressive range of cultural commentaries on the epidemic, exploring the conflicts and evasions that determine so much social policy, from safer sex campaigns to television soap operas.

If you read the original documents on his site and read his commentary you will not find that there has been very much distortion.