Sentences with phrase «of obloquy»

The kingship, too, in spite of the obloquy it receives from certain biblical writers, clearly entailed a national law that all must recognize.

What the Old Testament especially teaches us is this: «that zeal is as essentially a duty of all God's rational creatures, as [are] prayer and praise, faith and submission; and, surely, if so, [then] especially of sinners whom He has redeemed: that zeal consists in a strict attention to His commands» a scrupulousness, vigilance, heartiness, and punctuality, which bears with no reasoning or questioning about them» an intense thirst for the advancement of His glory» a shrinking from the pollution of sin and sinners» an indignation, nay impatience, at witnessing His honor insulted» a quickness of feeling when His name is mentioned, and a jealousy how it is mentioned» a fullness of purpose, an heroic determination to yield Him service at whatever sacrifice of personal feeling» and an energetic resolve to push through all difficulties, were they as mountains, when His eye or hand but gives the sign» a carelessness of obloquy, or reproach, or persecution, a forgetfulness of friend and relative, nay, a hatred (so to say) of all that is naturally dear to us, when He says, «Follow me.»

I choose her piece from many others, first because she is normally a fair - minded and well - informed commentator; secondly because she conveyed well enough the general tenor of the obloquy which for a time rained down on Cardinal Brady's head.

Some of the obloquy heaped upon Colson was undeserved: for example it is a journalistic myth that he attempted to order the bombing of the Brookings Institute.

Hart does a disservice to that inquiry by trying to peremptorily shut her behind the doors of obloquy.

Not exact matches

He also was among the first major historians to repudiate the groundless attacks against Pius XII, and was so impressed with the growing evidence in Pius's favor, that Gilbert concluded, «far from deserving obloquy,» the Pope «should be a candidate for Yad Vashem's order of «Righteous Gentiles.

Yet a full understanding of the situation qualifies in a marked degree the obloquy which the modern temper has been prone to offer all these.

The morning after Benedict's speech, I caught a discussion on the radio in which two well - known historians, eager to add their reproach to the obloquy heaped on Manuel, agreed that the emperor was no different from the Crusaders» oblivious to the dolorous history in which the Crusaders two centuries earlier had burned and ravaged Constantinople, the seat of Manuel's government, during the Fourth Crusade and set up Western Christian rule in the capital of the Byzantine Empire.

I refer, first, to the media obloquy heaped on the head of the Irish primate Cardinal Sean Brady for not reporting a Catholic priest for paedophile offences 40 years ago even though it was not his responsibility to do so; and, secondly, to the sentencing to varying terms of imprisonment of nine Muslims for the gross sexual exploitation of a group of wretched, helpless, underage girls.

In his initial years in office the next Pope, Pius IV (reigned 1559 - 1565) maintained high standards, but later he scandalized some of the reformers by succumbing to the ease and the pleasures which had brought obloquy to his office.

For some artists, the payback for this «obloquy» is the experience of having 60,000 members of the public come to see their work at Tate Britain.

In a defamation case, you must show that the defendant intentionally communicated a false statement about you to a third person and as a result of the statement, you are exposed a many things like public hatred, shame, obloquy, contumely, odium, contempt, ridicule, aversion, ostracism, degradation, or disgrace.