Sentences with phrase «on venality»

The difference between confession and oversharing often hinges on the venality of the former vs. the banality of the latter.

The Book of the Acts of the Apostles and the Epistles in the New Testament make abundantly clear that contemporary church politics has no corner on venality, corruption, and partisan spirit; yet the power of Scripture is that it portrays a community for which the resurrection is not just a promise but a reality — in which, that is to say, the Spirit dwells.

Not exact matches

Press reports, deriding Rossetto's empire as a Potemkin village of money - losing ventures, were quick to seize on the outsized valuation as clinching evidence of his haughtiness and venality.

But why should the Christian view of politics focus on accommodating rather than transcending and transforming this venality?

After yesterday's Sunday Times so perfectly skewered the venality of the Conservative Party, all the average lefty need do is sit back with a big wide smirk on his or her face.

Consider that the picture is in many ways an attack on the all - invasive venality of television and then think hard about how this juxtaposition speaks of the actress, the value of the director's opinion of the actress, and, fast - following, of how we take Cundey's remembrance of Perkins as the star of movies that he studied in film school.

Sally Potter's The Party sets its sights on the duplicitous liberal elite, where venality hides behind paper - thin morals.Janet -LRB-...

Rewriting a Charles Randolph script already commissioned by Brad Pitt's company, Plan B (Pitt has a cameo as the film's quasi-counterculture conscience), McKay turns Lewis's dense source into a blackly catastrophic comedy, a story of greed, venality, incompetence and barefaced corruption in which the good guys are the renegades who see disaster coming and stake their shirts on the apocalypse.

Sally Potter's The Party sets its sights on the duplicitous liberal elite, where venality hides behind paper - thin morals.