Sentences with phrase «of ugly rhetoric»

It exposed deep divisions and it was a year of ugly rhetoric and angry, sometimes violent, exchanges among people.

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Both bloggers were pretty tame when it came to name - calling, but expect this sort of back - and - forth rhetoric to continue by all sides of this debate, with the name - calling and finger - pointing only getting more and more angry and ugly.

One can hardly count the number of editorials and other commentaries deploring the nasty, ugly, hateful rhetoric now current in our political life.

The double standard has led to other ugly consequences: the legitimization of white racist rhetoric in the advocacy of reverse affirmative action among ordinary Americans who don't necessarily read the Times, and the re-emergence of white racism as a political program in the candidacy of former klansman David Duke.

As ugly as the redistricting process can be, this is one year in which the reality of democracy meshes with its rhetoric — an individual voter / donor / activist CAN make a difference, and one with the potential to echo through the halls of power for at least a decade to come.

While Tarantino has called «Django» a chance to hold up America's ugly past up like a mirror, this is empty rhetoric and the picture has almost nothing of substance to say socially or politically about race or slavery other than it was unfortunate and atrocious — seemingly the only two comments the filmmaker can make (as he did with WWII).

As the rituals of election - season civics lessons were disrupted by the ugly rhetoric of the campaign, teachers struggled to accommodate political conversation and free speech, while rejecting divisive language and supporting their students.

A lot of rhetoric has already gone forth by folks commenting about off - angle photos and drawings, saying the Prius is not all that fetching, but we don't agree with the harshest critics saying Toyota beat it with an ugly stick, but of course everyone is entitled to their opinion.

Anger over how bad science is driving public policy that's even worse, not to mention the ugly rhetoric that greeted me when I came out of the climate closet five years ago.

So, to keep my running list current, courts are not at all interested in hearing your clever rhetoric; your emotional exaggerations of how good, bad or ugly the other side's case is; or your disrespectful or uncivil language directed toward the court, opposing counsel, parties, witnesses or anyone else.

Let's be clear: Trump is dangerous, inciting violence at his rallies and using ugly rhetoric targeting women and people of color in his speeches.