Sentences with phrase «often ridiculed»

Faith is something often ridiculed and buried in our world today.

As a member of the millennial generation so often ridiculed for our peculiar naiveté, doe - eyed innocence, and seemingly constant need for feedback and (gasp) upward mobility, I found myself pondering the risks of making a career change only one year out from school.

Given that paradigm, it isn't surprising that cycling is rarely mentioned as a serious solution to transportation issues, and is actually often ridiculed.

[2] Critics of the past are often ridiculed for either favouring artists now derided (like the academic painters of the late 19th century)[citation needed] or dismissing artists now venerated (like the early work of the Impressionists).

U-1 is a dork on Earth, and he is often ridiculed at school, while also going unnoticed by the girl he admires.

Nintendo, who chose to sit the media format wars out, was often ridiculed for the decision to not give players an option to watch DVDs on the Wii.

I'm often ridiculed and scoffed at.

«Pictures like Carol and The Danish Girl give voice to another community that is too often ridiculed and ignored by the status - quo,» Robertson continued.

These tests are often ridiculed by shop assistants who do not like hearing that the colour you are looking for is not in their shop.

He is often ridiculed in the media for wearing what is widely considered to be an excessively luxurious toupee.

His offer to sit down over a brew or two with the City Council member and political aide detained by police on Monday seems to have generated as much enthusiasm as a flat, warm mug of Keystone — or as President Barack Obama's often ridiculed beer summit with Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates and a Cambridge, Mass., police officer

The better English players are often ridiculed by arrogant Arsenal fanz.

The theological dogma of the human soul being a spiritual creation of God is often ridiculed as a concept that has been rendered unnecessary by science.

It's a painful process, and one that is very often ridiculed by a small minority of our society.

The opposition generally ignored us and if they noticed us, at best, claimed we misunderstood them but more often ridiculed and dismissed us.

Those who share in the criticisms but believe that they can be internalized into Christianity are in the minority among the academic students of religion and are often ridiculed and ostracized by the dominant group.

While preachers and rabbis publicly regard their ex-gay congregants as heroes and champions, ex-gays are often ridiculed and judged by the very people that demand they change.

For the first 300 years of the church, Christians were often ridiculed and viewed with contempt.

In Ottawa, the bilingual and articulate Harper stood out in a Reform caucus that was often ridiculed for the unpolished and unconventional performances of some of its members.

As small business owners, we are advised and often ridiculed for not doing things the traditional way, or not planning as well as we should.

Because often they ridicule ignorance overseas, yet seem unaware of their own.

Even though you often ridicule people who do that as a means to show off your no - bullshit attitude when it comes to gym efforts.

Not exact matches

Unfortunately, these attempts at localization have often led to ridicule from Chinese people.

And, according to a 2013 New York Times report, these assaults often go unreported for fear of being punished, ignored, ridiculed, or even discharged for sexual contact with another man (prior to 2011).

During the Cultural Revolution from 1966 to 1976, the wealthy Chinese were often flogged and publicly ridiculed.

For the better part of the last 20 years, the idea of a guaranteed annual income (GAI), a government funded unconditional annual income floor below which no family or individual can fall, has been met with ridicule, dismissal, silence and, more often than not, legislation -LSB-...]

Corporate personhood is easily ridiculed on late - night television, but as Eric Posner pointed out in Slate, the law often «treats various nonhuman, nonsentient entities as «persons» for certain legal purposes.»

It is normal that any new theory goes through the usual ridicule / attack / acceptance stages, often taking years, decades or even centuries to develop through the stages.

An evangelically centered Church, attuned to the Spirit and the times, will thus choose its bishops from among those men who have demonstrated a capacity to mount a countercultural witness by inviting people into friendship with the Lord Jesus — and it will do so knowing that it is calling these men to various forms of martyrdom, of which opprobrium and ridicule are often the least of what may be expected.

Ex-gay men are often closeted, fearing ridicule from gay advocates who accuse them of self - deception and, at the same time, fearing rejection by their church communities as tainted oddities.

Indeed, those who have argued that the figure of the emperor is a sustained concern of any part of the New Testament have often found themselves the object of ridicule and their interest regarded as, at best, somewhat eccentric (an example of this can be seen in R. P. Martin's remarks about Karl Bornhäuser's Jesus imperator mundi in the former's Carmen Christi).

This alleged statement was often used to ridicule the Holy See and Catholic faith.

Vindicating the Vixens looks at female characters in the Bible who have often been judged, condemned, marginalized, ignored, or ridiculed, and shows how these women are actually presented by the text as heroes to emulate or examples to be followed.

I TOTALLY agree, that is the only way to stop this nonsense, the entire free world should get together and ridicule muhammed and Islam so much and so often that these idiots finally become desensitized to it.

They ridicule the often - cited analogy between divorce and death: «Why should people want to mourn the «loss» of someone they prefer to be rid of or have outgrown?»

jl — «Copernicus, Da Vinci and Galileo» were not mainstream for their era and were often persecuted or ridiculed for their ideas.

The narratives, often supplemented with corroborating photos, are too wrenching and the tales of childhood ridicule, adolescent exclusion and adult shame too authentic.

Southern baptists, who often publicly ridicule the Episcopal church, proclaim that this inaccurate book is gods directly inspired word.

Some background: Rachel Held Evans has made a career out of undermining fidelity to the teachings of Scripture by ridiculing simplistic or non-existent notions of biblical interpretation (hermeneutics), while practicing a flawed hermeneutic of her own that often seems to be little more than an extension of her own ideology.

As G.K.Chesterton noted, those who ridicule the whole idea of vows often seem to imagine that they are some kind of yoke imposed on reluctant lovers by the devil.

People hear our sermons sprinkled with Greek, Hebrew, and quotations from theology books, and they realize they don't have the time or training to do all this study, and when they try with the limited time and resources they do have, more often than not, they get scoffed at or ridiculed by someone with more training and knowledge for having a view that shows their ignorance.

Human beings have become by and large the main concern, respect for human beings, their identity, so often denied, ridiculed and exploited.

He often used the term «gay» pejoratively, and in 2011 issued a call on Facebook for his followers to share stories about and publicly ridicule what he deemed «effeminate anatomically male worship leaders.»

The club, and Wenger do not care about the fans, in fact, he doesn't even like the fans anymore, often criticising, and ridiculing us.

In recent years, Wenger has often been ridiculed for his insistence on playing beautiful football at the expense of results and his reluctance to delve big in the transfer market.

When I go back, much to my husband's ridicule, he often shares my bed.

When Jeremy Corbyn was elected Labour leader in 2015, he was immediately written off and ridiculed by Conservative - supporting public affairs professionals, while the industry's hefty contingent of diehard Blairites were often even more scathing.

And it is often used to ridicule the propensity of some people to make a tremendous din, whilst twisting common sense tightly into a knot, over issues that are otherwise quite simple and straight - forward.

The governor became the target of often cruel ridicule, with Saturday Night Live mocking his disability and Brooklyn state senator Kevin Parker scalding Paterson as a «coke - snorting, staff - banging governor.»

When that fourth wall is broken by naming the figures of ridicule and using direct comparisons to current news stories, the satire often becomes too obvious, lacks subtlety, impact or originality.