Sentences with phrase «much derision in»

They are the subject of much derision in the US this morning after posting this cringe - worthy text on their website!

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I hadn't spent much time thinking about what it's like for gay kids to overhear their parents talking about gay neighbors with derision and fear, for example, or how narratives about judgment and hell can be processed by kids in some pretty destructive ways.

The early church believed Jesus and followed his example, so much so that even the Roman authorities noted (often with derision) in their letters and journals that the church was made up primarily of women, slaves, and poor, uneducated laborers.

Had there been any social healing in his time, then there would not have been as much social derision towards Him either in His time or now.

He had come in for a lot of derision the last couple of years from the Garden crowds, but this season the booing has pretty much stopped.

Aidan and his family live in a Los Angeles where home - schooling the children is met with as much derision as Amish people using electricity (and Braff's «teaching» is no different from parents who homeschool their kids to believe dinosaurs never existed), and sexual harassment laws are a courtesy rather than something to enforce.

That certainly sounded promising at the time, but that was before anyone had seen The Mummy — a truly terrible movie met with such derision that it put the future of Universal's much - hyped «Dark Universe» of monster movies in doubt.

Richard Linklater's 12 - year project, chronicling the filmed - in - real - time tale of young Mason (Ellar Contrane) as he grows up from the age of six to the age of eighteen, has seemingly received just as much praise as it has derision, particularly by critics who were lukewarm on it amongst everyone else's ebullient praise, perhaps out of irritation.

doesn't really dispel the derision and anger that was directed at Tonya Harding in the 1990s as much as it transfers those emotions to new targets, particularly Eckhardt and Harding's mother (Janney is deliciously evil, and also too easy to hate).

As human rights ideals are increasingly understood and manifested around the globe, we must come to understand that humiliation in its many forms — for example, disrespect, denigration, derision, dehumanisation — becomes a much more powerful force to break down relationships than ever before (Lindner, 2006).

This simplicity was replaced in Halo 4 to much derision from the community so it is nice to have the purity back for Halo 5.

In Britain, the rise to prominence of the Young British Artists (YBAs) after the 1988 Freeze show, curated by Damien Hirst, and subsequent promotion of the group by the Saatchi Gallery during the 1990s, generated a media backlash, where the phrase «conceptual art» came to be a term of derision applied to much contemporary art.

So if you're wondering why I'm persisting here, in the face of so much derision, condescension and insult, now you know.

Michael Mann, an IPCC colleague of Weaver's, is currently the object of much derision after claiming in a court document that he, too, is similarly a Nobel laureate.

In «Justices Turning More Frequently to Dictionary, and Not Just for Big Words,» Adam Liptak wrote about the considerable frequency with which U.S. Supreme Court Justices refer to dictionary definitions in their opinions, much to the concern — not to say derision — of linguists and lexicologistIn «Justices Turning More Frequently to Dictionary, and Not Just for Big Words,» Adam Liptak wrote about the considerable frequency with which U.S. Supreme Court Justices refer to dictionary definitions in their opinions, much to the concern — not to say derision — of linguists and lexicologistin their opinions, much to the concern — not to say derision — of linguists and lexicologists.

These days, after a couple of years in a BigLaw firm doing the lowest level possible of quasi legal work, not so much., Sad to say, but I think that proposal to market such a person, perhaps with a PhD in the «intersection between the law and basket weaving» or some other risible contrivance of the new academia, would be met with derision by the business community (in general, exceptions, of course, notwithstanding).