Sentences with phrase «not pejorative»

One is that most law professors are very able at teaching the casuistic (in its original, not pejorative, meaning) process which is legal analysis (and many other types of logical analysis) which process, for whatever reason, the students» undergraduate professors weren't able to adequately explain.

POD is not the pejorative.

Not a pejorative term.

«Warrior» is a sports melodrama, so calling it melodramatic is merely descriptive, not pejorative.

Paul is mentally retarded — that's the medical diagnosis, this is not a pejorative term.

«We feel it should be open to the people of the Earth to name exoplanets anything they like as long as it's not pejorative, prejudiced, insulting or profane,» Stern says.

Hi Kate - Just happened to come across this website and remembered posting here sometime back, and after re-reading my post I think I sound rather pretentious and also, Anglo is not pejorative, just what most people here in New Mexico call a non-Hispanic white person.

Across the religious world, the word secular, now used in a positive, not pejorative, sense and the word city, now used as if far more promising than anything rural, agrarian, or traditional, rang out on everybody's lips.

Fishon: an uncompromising or undiscriminating literalist «take» on the bible can be said to generate ongoing confusion over the temporal (historical) and eternal (a-historical) divided aspects of our experience, between what is humanly rational & logical (measurable, count - able) and what is beyond (irrational and illogical (if those terms can be used descriptively, not pejorative)-- but can only be represented in physical images.

To say that someone is Christian or not Christian is descriptive, not pejorative.

To me, bossy is not a pejorative term at all.

He went big and weighty in 2015 with Spotlight, but McCarthy's small - scale debut could hardly be more different, the rare kind of quirky indie drama where such a label isn't a pejorative.

Not exact matches

Cohn doesn't seem to realize that «trickle down» has become a pejorative.

«To the extent that our content doesn't exist on their platforms — not to be too pejorative — they are dumb pipes.

Your point seems to be that this concept should not be saddled with a pejorative sounding label like «Dutch disease».

It's fairly easy for potential customers to determine whether or not your company is a «dog», in the pejorative sense.

«This isn't meant to be pejorative, but you're a classic middleman,» he says.

It was not so very long ago that everyone called them â $ œtar sands.â $ It wasnâ $ ™ t a pejorative, but merely a descriptive term for the tarry treasure once seen as the ideal substance for paving Albert...

These terms are not (or should not be) pejorative, as they describe part of the human condition.

-- It seems that you're giving the «us» in that sentence an exclusivist and pejorative sense that I didn't intend.

Lewis frequently used «humanism» and «humanitarian» as pejoratives, but only because in common usage those terms reflected smug liberal prejudices that were not nearly humanistic enough.

Another pejorative term is «reductionistic» — again, said by people that do not understand the complex beauty of systems defined by a minimal of simple rules.

This rejection is not limited to doctrinal positions that are «dogmatic» in the pejorative sense of that word.

Eliade understands syncretism not in a pejorative sense but as something inherent in culture and religion to influence each other.

Asceticism does not necessarily imply a pejorative view of the human body.

The terms «whore» and «slut» are pejorative terms traditionally used to encourage women to live chastely, if not for love of virtue, then for fear of shame.

In contrast, the term global warming hysteria is not so personally pejorative.

It is not that Podhoretz has twinges of pride, which he would not deny, nor that intellectuals tend to be elitist in the pejorative sense of that term, which nobody can deny.

It should not be regarded as a pejorative term, for the sects sometimes develop into mainline churches, as did the early Methodists.

I don't subscribe to using IC to stand for Institutional Church in a negative or pejorative way.

(«Social pretense» refers simply to conventional standards and is not necessarily pejorative.)

I am not attempting to be pejorative here, nor to put all such experiences on the same level.

The word cult isn't necessarily a pejorative any more than the word socialism is... it's only so in the eyes of self - righteous hypocrites such as Republicans in general.

But I do not know if Muray's reasons for rejecting these are anything like mine, for he does not tell us why he thinks they are not so good; he merely uses the terms as if they were obviously pejorative, like the term «racism.»

Yes, these institutions did help to constitute an alternative reality, but No, I couldn't accept the wholly pejorative way Balmer put this point.

They may be pejorative for process thinkers, but not necessarily for the rest of us.

If that pejorative phraseology does not give away the inclinations of the survey authors, a closer look at the data surely does.

Whether or not you consider the UK to have a Christian identity depends somewhat on whether you consider the terms «Christian» and «British» to be compliments or to be pejorative.

seems like rangewolf is the «butthurt» one (not that I'd use such a term to describe someone personally, but that's the pejorative he went with).

WWE's foray into niche programming runs deeper than this, too: they have NXT, which seems even more like minor league wrestling — and not in a pejorative sense — since the brand split helped strip the roster for parts, leaving behind many still learning the craft.

Blairite was once a term used to describe those associated with the right of the Labour Party — not necessarily in a pejorative sense.

Daesh, the prime minister's preferred term, is not an acronym of the group's full Arabic name, ad - Dawlah al - Islamiyah fi «l - «Iraq wa - sh - Sham, but a pejorative name given to it by its enemies.

Interesting question, but I think that if you're not satisfied by the answers given, it is because you already know the right answer: indeed in the US, «middle class» means «hard working» while «lower class» has a clear pejorative connotation of «people who don't want to work, who live off state's aid, food stamps, or petty criminality».

The term «teabagger» is slang (typically used in the pejorative sense) to refer to those that associate themselves with the Tea Party, which is a movement primarily (but not exclusively) associated with the Republican Party in the United States.

I don't self - identify with your somewhat pejorative description a «brown man» - and I reject the idea that these issues are of specific and segmented interest.

«Obamacare» is only pejorative because most people don't like the law.

Remember his Dad's underground campaign slogan «vote for Cuomo, not the [pejorative for his gay opponent Ed Koch]»?

The nickname of our office — some people think it's pejorative, I tend to think not — is the Sovereign District of New York.»

Foster doesn't consider «superstition» pejorative: You don't need to understand cause to benefit from a behavior.

«The findings demonstrate that gossip is intimately linked to mate competition and not solely the product of a female gender stereotype that may be viewed as pejorative,» states Davis, who believes that therapists, counsellors, educators, and the general public should rethink their stance about gossip.