Sentences with phrase «of screeds»

Sooner or later, every successful company confronts the dilemma of hiring an ad agency (for the purpose of this screed, we'll use that term to describe marketing services companies of all stripes, such as creative ad shops, digital agencies, PR firms — the whole hairball).

In fact, it is a scissors - and - paste job of outrages real and imagined in the service of a screed that displays the Anti-Defamation League and its director Abraham Foxman as reckless alarmists who play fast and loose with the truth.

I am the one who shared that insensitive meme,» he says at the beginning of his screed.

Unfortunately for John, the conversation quickly turned into a series of screed - like complaints about the lack of an ebook version.

It is biased, it is anti-capitalist, it is a bit of a screed.

As to the rest of your screed, all I can suggest is that «argument from ignorance» is a perfect description.

The National Organization for Women's reputation for honesty and integrity hit an all - time low with the NOW Foundation's publication of this screed against recognition of Parental Alienation Syndrome.

Not exact matches

The Warwickshire police recently produced a new mission statement; to the police chief's dismay, the resulting 1,200 - word screed gained the attention of the media and was nominated for the Golden Bull Award «for excellence in gobbledygook» from the Plain English Campaign, a group that helps organizations to provide clear communications.

The anti-diversity memo read round the world — a controversial screed penned by a now - fired Google software engineer — has elicited plenty of controversy and debates around gender politics and the soundness of evolutionary psychology.

It begins as a hysterical screed — with Lusk name - checking the Gestapo, Hitler, Mao and Stalin — and ends up a nuanced critique marshalling convincing evidence that many totems of the foodie world are propped up with shaky supports.

Some people said the screed, directed at CEO Jeremy Stoppelman, drew attention to prevalent wage issues in the area; others accused the employee of acting entitled and failing to find better or more work or a place to live that costs less than her current $ 1,245 rent.

In November, musician Damon Krukowski penned a frustrated screed about the grand sum of 21 cents received from Pandora for the 7,800 times one of his band's songs was played on the service.

Jay Simons: When you take a bunch of venture capital — and this is not a screed against taking VC — and you get a board full of VCs, and you have sold so much of your company to them, it is the nature of investing that they are very short - term oriented.

I've read many political screeds blaming Sarbanes - Oxley for the current state of affairs, but in my view, that perspective is wildly exaggerated by those with political axes to grind.

Credentials like being a core developer for Bitcoin did not stop Mike Hearn from going to work for banks and publishing a lengthily screed full of lies in the process.

In this screed, the author beat the dead horse of the NTR Metals gold import scheme.

Licia Corbella's screed also tendentiously attempted to tie Premier Rachel Notley's pro-pipeline NDP government to Dr. Suzuki's views, something of a low even by recent Postmedia standards.

This book is a personal and at times blistering critique of the «ignorant screeds» of the New Atheist meme machine: the «sneer pressure» from the likes...

How's that for a screed instead of a creed?

To advocate self - help, to argue that affirmative action can not be a long - run solution to the problem of racial inequality, to suggest that some of what is transpiring in black communities reflects a spiritual malaise, to note that fundamental change will require that individual lives be transformed in ways that governments are ill - suited to do, to urge that we must look to how black men and women are relating to each other, how parents are bringing up their children, that we have to ask ourselves what values inform the behavior of our youth» to do these things is not to take a partisan position, or vent some neoconservative ideological screed.

So far the deeds have yet to match the screed — Mark was absent from the pulpit the Sunday after this broke and his sermon preached on 8/16 was only done live in front of the small 8:30 pm service at Bellevue which is where his sermons are taped for distribution to the other campuses the following week.

• So, having heaped upon the National Council of Churches» screed against the celebration of the 500th anniversary of Columbus» arrival in the Americas a small measure of the derision that it deserves («Repenting of America 1492 - 1992,» October 1990), we are asked how Christians should think about the occasion.

He might plausibly have claimed that he relied on the bad reporting of another, in partial (but only partial) extenuation of his unwarranted screed.

But they will, with justice, turn a deaf ear to embittered screeds of historical falsehood, logical incoherence, and near - hysterical execration of their past and present.

Japanese novelist Kenzaburo Oe's A Personal Matter says more about being for life — all of life — than all the anti-abortion screeds (including my own) I've ever read.

No longer simply producing easily dismissable screeds on cheap paper for certified bigots, Holocaust deniers have developed increasingly sophisticated methods of tailoring their message to different audiences and presenting what may, at first, seem a respectable array of institutions and scholarly publications.

2) What the hell (or heaven, take your pick) does this particular screed have to do with the National Day of Prayer.

Capital Christians are CINOs, Christians In Name Only; they can't possibly have read the gospels because there is no way to read a capitalist screed into the words of someone whose major focus was social justice and caring for the weak.

The bookstores» shelves are creaking with the sermons of smug eminences purporting to break the spell of the «God delusion» and with banal screeds purporting to expose the dark designs of Christofascists and theocrats.

He also claims he kept an accurate and logical tally of the number of drinks the woman had, so he seems to think he had a scientific reason for writing a long - winded screed on a local Facebook group that evening.

Industrial flooring is one of those reliable companies that help you to give reliable floor repairing, screeding, painting, coating services at reliable rates within your budget.

Cristina Nehring, author of the 2009 screed A Vindication of Love: Reclaiming Romance for the Twenty - First Century, goes further, complaining that the «pragmatic marriage» has asphyxiated romance.

-LSB-...] in her latest angry screed against Obama - backed school food reform (and she's written others), conservative pundit Michelle Malkin applauded District 214 for voting itself out of «the -LSB-...]

Nowadays, though, someone like, say, Media Matters can pick up one of your columns and distribute it to a very different group of readers, including a few who might not share the assumptions underlying a statement like this, which you wrote yesterday in response to Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright's now - famous screed:

Conservative screeds against «welfare mothers» and midnight basketball are familiar topics of speakers addressing the party faithful.

There is Paul Ryan's screed at the Republican national convention and President Obama's taking a quote about fact - checking out of context, of course.

Hours before the Observer published fresh, damaging allegations about how the various pro-Brexit campaigns colluded, possibly illegally, in the weeks before the UK's knife - edge EU referendum, Vote Leave Campaign Director Dominic Cummings published a long screed of pre-emptive defence on his blog.

The party's executive has put down a policy screed of their own (in such a last - minute fashion that it didn't make it into the conference agendas handed out to delegates) which takes precedence over the others.

Work of persons laying screeds or technicians working backwards may be facilitated.

He's fully capable of writing angry vegan screed though.

Co-writer Barry Levinson specializes in obvious screeds about whatever subject attracts him, and Justice suffers from his typical lack of subtlety.

Most of the ground covered should be familiar to history buffs: Hitler's failed efforts to become a great artist, his frustration at watching his adopted country fall apart at the seams during World War I, his resolve to put Germany back on its feet by exploiting the nation's horrendous postwar economic woes and its ingrained anti-Semitism, his 1923 arrest, the publication of Hitler's virulent screed + Mein Kampf, the growing popularity of National Socialism, and the fatal error made by senile German chancellor Von Hindbenburg (Peter O'Toole) to «neutralize» Hitler by giving him a relatively unimportant political post in 1933.

It abandons its subtlety en route to becoming a moralistic screed about the preservation of the nuclear family.

It's a film open for easy dismissal, but «Creation» is not an anti-religion screed, only an intimate drama of a man who found himself at a crossroads between the answers of science and the comfort of faith.

Simply elaborating on the complexity of wicked fast food franchises offering naturalized Mexicans the chance to own a business and, perhaps, advance within the corporate structure while raping (again literally, with a plant super (Bobby Cannavale) putting the wood to his helpless charges) their own kind in the production - side would have instantly transformed Fast Food Nation into a thoughtful examination of the impossibility of our industrialized situation instead of an inchoate screed delivered by idiots to like - minded idiots.

were essentially the cinematic equivalent of soapbox screeds.

ATLAS SHRUGGED PART I Rather than take the time to come up with something witty to write about this heavy - handed screed that boasts all the production values of a bad made - for - TV movie from the early 1980s, I'll just substitute the word «novels» with «films» in this popular quote and be done with it: «There are two films that can change a 14 - year - old's life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged.

Blanchett plays 13 characters performing screeds by the likes of Marx and Debord in a hypnotically fascinating exploration of philosophy

THE DISAPPEARANCE OF ELEANOR RIGBY: HIM: One good film stretched to two, doing little with second POV and insisting on having characters speak in screeds.

Levine exhibited scant optimism about the movie's prospects, and some of the most influential critics, including Pauline Kael and John Simon, dismissed it, as later would a writer at the New Yorker, Jacob Brackman, whose screed went on for some twenty pages.