Sentences with phrase «now pejorative»

In the climate debate it is now a pejorative.

Not exact matches

«They have millions and millions and millions of viewers, but the number attached to those viewers is now considered a pejorative number.»

Now it would be a great mistake to attribute this difficulty solely or even primarily to so - called Muslim «fundamentalism» (which is probably a pejorative misnomer in any case); in a more basic sense, the difficulty is due to the intense integration of religion with every aspect of culture and society in the Islamic view of the world.

First used during colonial times, Isai now carries pejorative overtones of street sweeping and other occupations done by the lowest castes.

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.

The word «stimulus» now has a clear pejorative tone in American politics, such that no supporter of short term stimulus legislation can actually use the word (hence we get Obama's «jobs bill»).

My good friend Glenn Whipp, who's seen both sides of this topic as both a former film critic for the Los Angeles Daily News and now an awards expert for the Los Angeles Times, thinks the phrase «Oscar bait» is just a lazy pejorative, and one that's not always accurate.

Critics now apply pejorative labels like «fuzzy math» or «new new math» to this sensible effort to ratchet up expectations in mathematics classrooms.

For those invoking the «denier as conspiracy theorist» pejorative need only consider the gems left here by Fanboy and now Naq;

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Now, taking even the most wildly optimistic statement of certainty of AGW — the «very likely (> 90 % probability) stated by IPCC in AR4, this hardy makes AGW a «fact» such as gravity, and thus subject to the pejorative denialist label (Catastrophic AGW and effectiveness of mitigations would have certainty far far below this 90 %).

That is not intended to be pejorative, buy the reality is that a COO inevitably finds him or herself with a brand new boss while at the same time, some new Firm Leader realizes that they now have to work closely with an individual whom they may even know very well.