Sentences with phrase «not abject»

But the figures in these paintings are not abject.

It's not abject or a product of a «de-skilled» approach.

more than once I might add... from the 63 Chateau nut de Pape you mentioned to several Mouton Rothschilds etc and let me tell you 99 out of a 100 have usually turned to vinegar if not abject plonk!

Conforming his life to God's will was not abject groveling before an arbitrary, oriental potentate, but the acceptance (whatever the cost) of spiritual reality.

Not exact matches

For him, it's either abject surrender on the opposition or it's war, and there doesn't seem to be any room for negotiation.»

From an investing perspective, getting completely wiped out and thinking it was the end of the world, and thinking I was an abject failure, and this investing thing wasn't for me.

But the kind of abject poverty that over one billion people endure — those living on $ 1 per day — wouldn't be tolerated by Jesus and should not exist today.

The abject horrendous examples set should instigate book burnings, not reverence.

You don't know what theories are in a scientific context, you make an argument equivalent to «people can't take strides greater than ten feet, therefore it's impossible to run a marathon,» and you think that the lack of a full understanding about a particular hypothetical explanation is some kind of demonstration that science is an abject failure.

If the Crucifixion does not express and embody a decisive self - transformation of God, then at most it can only give a guilty humanity a temporary respite from the sovereign power of the transcendent Creator, while at worst it can seal a fallen humanity in its abject state of powerlessness and self - abasement, totally repressing every tendency to movement and life.

He is, to be sure, abject; but he doesn't puff himself up with self - loathing, as the Pharisee puffs himself up with self - esteem.

Abject poverty consistently produces a great deal of unhappiness, but that's not the situation for Fishtown.

The spirit of revenge is easy — not as easy, perhaps, as is the spirit of abject surrender.

17: The offerings to God are a humbled spirit, a humbled, abject heart: 1 these God shall not despise.

We shouldn't be surprised that masses of incensed residents of black Ferguson marching peacefully through their own streets in protest of sub-human treatment would trigger abject fear in the hearts of Ferguson's nearly all white police department.

(26) The chieftains of his folk, who disbelieved, said: We see thee but a mortal like us, and we see not that any follow thee save the most abject among us, without reflection.

If you're not, then you're in an abject complete and total ignorance of what is it like.

There is a long list of brands who have been forced, not just to mollify China, but to issue abject apologies expressing their deep shame over, say, absent - mindedly referring to Taiwan as an independent nation.

Nonetheless, until the modern period, those who called into question a genuine progress of the church toward the City of God did not have to witness a manifestly contrary situation — one wherein the City of God seems to be in abject retreat.

I tried to watch that 2nd video, but after a couple minutes I couldn't stand to subject my mind to such abject absurdity any longer.

We can always count on the Religion section to demonstrate abject ignorance, not just in the comments, but also in the articles.

Not surprising, it has taken the Church a long time to develop a critical and prophetic theology with which to confront the social evils and oppression which have condemned the majority of the human family to abject poverty and dehumanizing life.

Just because your god enjoys torturing most of his creation in a fire pit for all eternity doesn't mean we should follow his example and force people to live their entire lives in abject poverty, disease, and pain..

It is a form of obedience (as Paul notes in the frame of Romans with his phrase «the obedience of faith») but it is not any form of abject credulity — yet if we metaphorically learn how to be abject (falling at the feet of the Beloved) we will not be disappointed.

You've got a country that already is the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere that sits in the shadow of the United States, and so the longings of a life that is not spent in abject poverty is certainly there.

Yes, Dean made a howler at WBA but that howler does not explain the teams abject display as we all know.

I would not worry too much if I were you though, because I think that as long as Arsenal do not turn up with the sort of abject showing we saw against Crystal Palace or Watford then we should be alright, and I very much doubt that the players are ready to slack off at the minute.

This was an abject disaster, one so bad that GoUSFBulls.com didn't acknowledge the game actually took place until well into Sunday.

OG was not the reason we had 5 losses to Soton, Swansea (x2), Stoke and Spurs — the team was abject.

But because of how quiet Douglas Costa was on the right, and the abject failure of Rodrigo Betancur to give Juventus any attacking element from central midfield — that Pjanic suspension really hurt them here — Juve couldn't do anything to take advantage of

Wenger don't get to decide our feelings for us...... The club's recent status, decades of decadence & abject suffering speaks volume....

I don't think I will get thumbed down like this when abject Everton score 3 past us without reply on sunday

Why does Wenger panic buy (somebody please list the number of abject failures — which WERE evident before we bought them, and get players like Mertesacker who really is NOT a first team player.

Just very occasionally, and that is usually when the team has been rightly slaughtered for regular abject displays by not turning up and having their courage questioned.

No amount of positive thinking from fans will change that state of affairs and to think otherwise just allows the delusional one to make endless excuses for his own abject failure... And it's not all abou the money there is not one player I can honestly say has improved under wenger in the last 10 years... Fabregas was the last and he joined us 15 years ago!!!

Has ten years of abject failure not illuminated anything for you?

That is not the whole story either, as the manner of our loss to Liverpool was so abject that most Arsenal fans are feeling anything but positive about the new season.

Bearing in mind the abject oppposition, I would personally not give such high marks, esp to Giroud, Welbeck, Coquelin and Chambers.

But there is also a growing feeling, which must have grown a lot more after this weekend's abject show at West Brom, that the boss has not got the same control over the Arsenal dressing room as he used to have and Wenger gave this idea even more weight with some of his post match comments reported by Metro.

Sunday's shock defeat at home to West Bromwich Albion handed the Premier League title to Manchester City, and the abject performances from some of his bigger players did not go unnoticed by the Man United boss.

Innit weird that, should Giroud leave as part of the deal for HWNCBP II (He Whose Name Can not Be Pronounced 2, we've signed HWNCBP I today) we will have got rid of our front three, who scored something like 70 goals last season, but have pretty much kept all our defenders and midfielders, who have largely been abject as a unit, and individually.

However, if it wasn't for some abject finishing from Leeds» attacking players it could have been a different story.

Moreover in the interests of dismissing potential criticism that this article is, no matter how much I may deny it, merely a backlash from the Swansea defeat, I will finally make the point that the premise of the article was conceived in early January and thus can not be considered an immediate response to Liverpool's abject display at Swansea.

But then the Manager alone can not be responsible held responsible for the absolute abject recklessness of a Keeper who is considered to be good with his passing.

I continued to watch throughout in the hope that I would be wrong, but despite equalising late in the first half, and going in level at half time, I just could not be my usual optimistic self, and my fears came to fruition with a second half performance even more abject than the first, and that takes some doing.

The Canaries have only won eight games in the league all season, and probably didn't expect to walk away with a 2 - 1 win at Old Trafford back in December, but United were abject that day.

One wouldn't bet against a repeat considering the abject nature of their performances against Egypt and The Netherlands a few weeks ago.

... Everyone who goes into a second marriage has to understand, at least conceptually, that marriages don't last because they have this abject lesson in their lives.

What's more, I think it's dangerous to every new parent who beats him - or herself up over not being perfect and feeling abject adoration every second of every day.

I felt like an abject failure but I could not let my baby expend all her energy this way: she needed to gain weight.