Sentences with phrase «much scorn»

Incidentally, it's been forever since I looked at any of your graphs, but if you're still doing what you used to do, you should know I hold about as much scorn for you as I do lolwot.

No Child Left Behind (NCLB) is among the most lamented education policies in recent memory, and few of NCLB's provisions received as much scorn as its singular focus on grade - level proficiency as the sole measure of school performance.

The other two are young white females (Hannah Murray and Kaitlyn Dever) who have been socializing with the black males, which earns them almost as much scorn from the police.

This is his biggest weakness and the primary reason for so much scorn on this board.

Not exact matches

Mexican - made beers have been strong sellers in recent years because they are easy to drink, much like many U.S. - made light lagers, but don't stir the same scorn that some beer drinkers have for domestic beer brands like Bud Light and Miller Lite.

But while WFC may be the object of scorn, its operations continue pretty much as before.

Hell hath no fury like a scorned blogger with too much free time.

Being a Calvinist brings much ridicule and scorn from both those from the Christian community and the world in general for Christian stances.

Probably, he had received much ridicule, scorn and persecution for being a Jew, and wanted to spare Esther that pain.

My scorn doesn't get much worse than that.

In resisting Communist advances in Greece and Turkey, a much - scorned and widely underestimated American president announced in 1947 that it now «must be the policy of the United States to support free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or outside pressures....

Any diety whose plans involve anything you listed, is pretty much terrible, and worthy of scorn.

And others have just as much right to ridicule and scorn you.

Even the much - beloved Psalm 23 does not escape Lewis's scorn.

2 Such is the criticism commonly passed upon Socrates in our age, which boasts of its positivity much as if a polytheist were to speak with scorn of the negativity of a monotheist; for the polytheist has many gods, the monotheist only one.

If these dads dare to tell their pregnant wives that they don't want to plan so much ahead, they will be scorned because Capricorns can be heartless if they are crossed!

The pundits» scorn, including that of politics.co.uk, appeared to have been very much misplaced.

So it was with Coulson; the defence he offered in the face of Ed Miliband's attacks in prime minister's questions left the press scorning the leader of the opposition as much as his rival.

Dennis Skinner dolloped a sizeable dose of his own brand of seething scorn on the «tin - pot Liberals», accusing them of trying to «save face» by seeking to push through «a few marginal shifts» which wouldn't make much difference.

If that is the price we pay for party unity, should we be surprised that party politics is becoming the butt of the joke and an object of scorn to an increasing number of Americans, much as it was to my countrypeople in the last days of the Soviet Union?

He is also one of archaeology's most controversial figures, winning praise from foreign archaeologists, who say he has done much to modernize an antiquated system, as well as scorn from those who say he claims credit for others» discoveries.

The problem with today's mosquito control is that it suffers from too much talking and increasingly relies on «community participation,» which is difficult to sustain, Knols wrote in his book; he scorned Aruba, where during a dengue outbreak schoolchildren were given a note asking their parents to remove mosquito breeding sites around the home.

Jennifer Lawrence reveals she will never join Twitter or social media «Because the Internet has scorned me so much» Katniss Everdeen is completely fru...

Spall, who played the very different part of the restaurant owner in Life Is Sweet, magisterially conveys a sense of goodness, and Jean - Baptiste in a much less showy part pulls off a rare feat in a Mike Leigh film: she escapes the writer - director's usual caricatural scorn for the middle class.

And yet, no matter how much press such topicality earns him, the movies seem to be met with middling returns and general ambivalence, which are at least preferable to the critical scorn and downright disinterest that befell his ambitious 2004 epic flop Alexander (which he has since recut a staggering three times).

Frustrating to watch and I'm sure, much more so to play, Courau brings to life a woman scorned and struggling to grasp a sense of affection from her cheating husband.

Bill and Melinda Gates, for instance, devote much of their gigantic philanthropy to getting black and brown kids ready for college, yet they earn her scorn for «corporate foundations, which indeed have those funds because they can avoid paying taxes that the rest of us must foot.»

In today's absurdly polarized politics, where everyone gets dubbed an ally or an enemy and either embraced or scorned 24/7, regardless of the issue, where we inhabit echo chambers, and where collaboration and comradeship seem possible only within them, a major reason we don't get much done is because we don't have enough people like Al..

The second reason was to acknowledge a big influence on my publishing career, and to praise a man who has too much undeserved scorn heaped on him these days.

This sophomore effort from DICE isn't necessarily a bad game, but so much of its core design remains at odds with fan expectation, earning scorn from gamers and critics alike.

Rightful though much of the scorn has been, it's important to have some perspective and ensure that you don't jump on the hate bandwagon just for the sake of it.

But I don't think PlayStation gamers felt nearly as scorned by having to wait a few weeks for new maps as will the Xbox faithful who have to hold out for more than a year for much more content.

Though some were, no doubt, upset at the very concept of third - party exclusives for games that'd previously been multi-platform, much of the scorn seemed to come from people pissed it wouldn't be landing on PlayStation 4.

He spent much of his life advocating for acceptance of an art form that was not understood and scorned by many critics, museums and the public.

His inflatable tree, erected in Place Vendôme, instantly became object of hatred and scorn by Parisians and French art critics, who believed it to be too much like a giant butt plug.

Oreskes» studies on the much - repeated «97 percent consensus» agreement among scientists that the effects of Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW) require draconian political measures has brought her praise and scorn from equally well - qualified commentators.

Northern Algonquin tapped maples and exploited sugar, but southern Algonquin had no word for sugar and scorned the English for consuming so much of it.

I hold special scorn for those who want to tear away funding for programs that mostly benefit the disadvantaged, because this is pure gamesmanship — if politicians were serious about balancing the budget, they'd either tackle defense and entitlement programs, or do something that would be much, much better for the economy than slashing government spending: raise taxes on the wealthy.

As someone who spends far too much time looking at the McGill Guide, I agree that your use of i.e. is neither McGill - sanctioned nor - scorned; however, I do note that throughout the 7th edition text they use e.g. as is, with periods but no italics.