Sentences with phrase «of pejorative terms»

The omission may well be down to the simple fact that the phrase «human rights» has passed into the lexicon of pejorative terms employed by the British media, alongside «political correctness», as shorthand for something that runs contrary to a deeply ingrained British sense of fair play.

It would be very good to have a ceasefire from insult and the use of pejorative terms about people at this time.

The increasing use of this pejorative term — and its bedfellow qualifiers «chaotic», «irreversible», «rapid» — has altered the public discourse around climate change.

This week, St. Lewis won her three - year libel case against Rancourt and was awarded $ 350,000 in damages by an Ottawa civil jury, based on damages to her reputation stemming from Rancourt's use of the pejorative term in a 2011 blog.

Not exact matches

At Iodine, my startup, I took the role of «nontechnical co-founder» — a Silicon Valley term I've always considered slightly pejorative, but whatever.

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

«Obdurate» is a pejorative word which Cheever repeatedly transforms into a term of praise.

This term is often pejorative, implying that some are devoted to institutional matters independently of any concern for the purposes of the church.

In the Bible such constraints are conventionally attributed to «the world» in the pejorative sense of that term, which we may define as the world of the creation reduced by the purposes of any of the forms of selfishness.

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.

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.

«Exclusivists» (a somewhat pejorative term, to be sure, but one that may stick all the same) are people who insist on the finality and uniqueness of biblical revelation.

Leaving aside the imprecise and misleading use of the term «fundamentalist» and its pejorative overtones, this is, to say the very least, very strange.

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.

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.

Westerners and Asians with democratic convictions will, of course, characterize this model in morally pejorative terms.

Justin Welby called for a «ceasefire» on the use of insults, «personalised attacks» and «pejorative terms» as the process of leaving the European Union continues.

(1) Indeed the term acquires, in some quarters there, a pejorative flavor, so persistent among Pentecostals is a characteristic mistrust of the formal academic enterprise.

the fact that the term midget was used here says a lot about the writer of this blog... dwarfism happens because of different medical conditions... and many people affected with dwarfism like to be called little people... midget is considered to be pejorative.

A pejorative term that's used with pride, hinting at a kind of arrogance that only winners can afford to display.

The governing body is aware of three tweets the 21 - year - old apparently sent in 2012 and 2013 when he was a member of Barnsley's youth set - up, that contain pejorative terms for gay men.

First of all we never used the term «Potty» it's common and I do mean that in the pejorative.

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»).

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.

In the scope of politics, It's a pejorative term for a member of the «Tea Party» which is a movement which is known for it's fiscal conservatism.

All of them are committed to the same general principles - to make a bold nationwide rejection of racism and xenophobia and counter the ongoing hostility towards immigration that has transformed words like migrant and immigrant into pejorative terms.

Many of the media outlets targeted by the Trump administration are labelled as liberal which is a term used in the USA a pejorative by non-liberal voters.

Again, this may suggest that Madden and Lenhart's (2006) conclusions about societal views of online dating more accurately represent people's real attitudes toward finding romance on the Internet than do the conclusions of scholars such as Anderson (2005) and Wildermuth (2001, 2004) such that — for persons of any age — online daters are no longer viewed in the pejorative terms they once were.

Perpetuation of the HIV epidemic in gay and bisexual men is not directed solely by person - level behaviors but is influenced by a range of contextual A pejorative (also called a derogatory term, a slur, a term of abuse, or a term of disparagement) is a word or grammatical form expressing a negative

This is a movie that so privileges the perspective of the good - looking foofy - haired white male that it makes you understand the absolutely pejorative aspect of the term «heteronormative.»

But with «mum» no longer a pejorative term («mom jeans» = Vogue - approved denim choice), planet film is catching on to the excellent - ness of mothers.

«Elitism» is the pejorative term lobbed around film criticism the most, and this kind of dismissive behavior is exactly why people hate the Oscar build - up.

I am determined that we stamp out the use of the word gay as a pejorative term.»

I find it fascinating that the term «education reformer» is being used in such a pejorative way by Ravitch and others (though the strategy is obvious: lump together everyone fighting to change the status quo in hopes of getting the public to dismiss them en masse.

Recently the concept of a «gatekeeper» seems to have become a pejorative term for the agents, editors and other players in the traditional publishing world.

The term «vanity publishing» is a pejorative implying that the writer could not get something published, so he or she paid a publisher to print up a few cartons of books that collect dust somewhere.

Yes, the term vanity press is pejorative, but it is also the harsh light of truth under which all the authors who are self - publishing should consider their work.

Animal rights activist groups keep selling the idea that the way to get rid of sub-standard breeders — I refuse to use the pejorative term puppy mills — is to simply ban the sale of puppies, which in many cases, for simplicity, just morphs into banning the sale of all pets.

Regarding my comment before, this is literally the closest thing you will even find to a general definition of BYB anywhere; «Backyard Breeder is a term used for breeders of dogs in a largely pejorative sense by the Animal Welfare community, ASPCA, larger established breeders and dog club.

This term was later twisted to the pejorative «hunt n» peck» because numerous graphic adventure games, in lieu of offering clever and interesting puzzles, would hide important items in a 2 - pixel - square hit area so that the player's only recourse was to slowly scan each and every location by trawling the cursor slowly over the screen in rows, like he was a human dot matrix printer.

If it weren't so seemingly pejorative a term, we might be tempted to say that Jensen performs a generic form of abstraction.

Like loose pages torn from a journal, the «paintings» on view are encrusted with lascivious catcalls, terms of endearment, drunken pejorative slurs, and teenage slang.

The painter Elizabeth Murray was known to take offense to having the cups in her paintings referred to as «teacups», a pejorative term to an artist who was doing plenty of heavy lifting and battling the gender dragons of the art world.

Aren't you in danger of just giving the existing pejorative terms a PC makeover?

«Greed is just a pejorative term for the human condition of self - interest.

I am non-responsive to: «righteous hindsight»; «whipping boy»; «overegg the ad superbiam»; using the name «David Rose» like it is an «a priori» pejorative term; your curious (to me) concern over me adding a word (auditability) to my own original thoughts as they take on an evolving context in a polite (well, up till a little while ago polite) conversation with you; your presumptive omniscient self - serving claim of knowledge of my «due diligence»; implying there is a problem endorsing parts of the IAC report but not others; etc, etc, etc...

Taking a pejorative term such as TreeHugger and twisting it around to create a cool new contemporary brand was all about «green marketing» in it's most positive sense - oh and of course good writing too!

«Those avian nervous systems are capable of far greater achievements than the pejorative term «bird brain» would suggest.»

Regulatory Demands Can Have Unintended Consequences If tactical lists of favorite regulations to promulgate and past executive decisions to «fix» is all what our loosely formed green machine has to say, then we can fully expect those who still use «Tree Hugger» as a pejorative term to mock us with our own irrelevance.