Sentences with phrase «only scorned»

In fact, Lincoln had difficulty with the aristocratic Jefferson on many accounts, and in private he not only scorned Jefferson's views of the ideal yeoman farmer but also condemned Jefferson's hypocrisy regarding slaves, a hypocrisy that implied Jefferson's use of the word equality in the Declaration need not be taken literally as applying to all men.

Whatever the ambiguity of the cosmic clues, Bellow is optimistic about humanity's future and has only scorn for Weltschmertz.

In contrast, de Maria has only scorn for easterners who fly out west for the week and tell America how to configure itself.

Just to be clear, I have only scorn for bloggers who neglect these cycles to the same degree you neglect the rise.

A large and determined fraction of the public were convinced that global warming worries deserved only scorn, and most of the rest gave the problem a far lower priority than the economic and political issues of the moment.

Not exact matches

This was the only commodity Frost and Eliot were capable of producing: the modernist phenomenon as product, mass culture's ultimate revenge on those who would scorn it.»

'» «The problem facing the West,» Pamuk wrote, «is not only to discover which terrorist is preparing a bomb in which tent, which cave, or which street of which city, but also to understand the poor and scorned and «wrongful» majority that does not belong to the Western world.»

For example, it is only too easy to imagine Christian living as a soft, meek - and - mild, head - in - the - clouds avoidance of reality, and therefore to pour scorn upon it.

But here Wieman ignored such praise and spoke with scorn of this concept, arguing that any contribution such atomic events make to other atoms (he still had never used the term «actual entity») comes only after perishing.

«At the best the Founding Fathers only passively believed in organized Christianity and at worst they scorned and ridiculed it.»

Black radicals scorn Rhema and claim that only upwardly mobile, middle - class blacks attend.

The only thing they will get with those billboards is more scorn from people.

Postmodernist interpreters join Iago in scorning the protestations of Othello and Desdemona that their love is actually something more than mere sensual attraction, and only by this great negation can they deny that Othello, like all Shakespeare's tragic heroes, is the embodiment of a Western ideal who fails and suffers catastrophe.

But this is not the only methodology that has felt the critics» scorn.

Mussolini and Nietzsche think that men cooperate, sympathize, and accept scorn or ridicule only because they are too weak to assert themselves.

The Pharisee only did one thing wrong: he passed judgment on the whole person of the tax collector and with scorn dismissed him and his whole life as worthless.

Not only Tertullian but Clement of Alexandria and the document called «Apostolic Tradition» (Roman ecclesiastical regulations dating from the end of the second century) declare that he who holds the sword must cast it away and that if one of the faithful becomes a soldier he must be rejected by the church, «for he has scorned God.»

The only right response to you is scorn and derision.

2 Such is the criticism commonly passed upon Socrates in our age, which boasts of its positivity much as if a polytheist were to speak with scorn of the negativity of a monotheist; for the polytheist has many gods, the monotheist only one.

The midfield which last season scorned to play possession football, and only knew to pass the ball forward, last week seemed to be playing hot potato; no one wanted it, and if they got it, they quickly got rid of it, usually by giving it to a Barcelona player.

The decision was initially met with scorn from Everton supporters, but a result in the Merseyside derby and a six match unbeaten run seems to have mellowed them, only for a downturn to reintroduce questions.

Only women in this society can use marriage as an economic parachute and not automatically face scorn and disdain for doing so.

At the Spectator Parliamentarian of the Year awards only weeks ago, political heavyweights, both those felled and those still standing, didn't hold back their scorn.

Its lazy, insouciant indifference only seemed to make his scorn all the more biting.

As Bialy describes it, everybody cared about cancer, but the only man who understood that it was not caused by oncogenes was scorned by his peers for changing his mind.

Obviously, should the accusations prove true - the HFPA has flatly denied them - it would take awards shows, events that are scorned and ridiculed for their self - congratulatory insular tendencies, and assign them the weight of The Office's Dundie Awards, only held in fancier confines with richer attendees than a Chili's full of paper - supply workers.

Stalled in her unmediated rage and grief, Emanuel heaps scorn on her perfectly nice father, who's played by an underused Alfred Molina, and on her decidedly un-wicked stepmother (Frances O'Connor), who wants only to be liked, Sally Field - style.

In today's absurdly polarized politics, where everyone gets dubbed an ally or an enemy and either embraced or scorned 24/7, regardless of the issue, where we inhabit echo chambers, and where collaboration and comradeship seem possible only within them, a major reason we don't get much done is because we don't have enough people like Al..

In spite of overwhelming evidence and bipartisan agreement on the important role teachers play in shaping children's lives, recent policy initiatives have only served to heap scorn on teachers while concurrently cutting positions, freezing salaries, and removing classroom support.

That's kind of a weird obsession to express on an automotive website, where engaging in demented rants against the world's preeminent engineering superpower will only draw scorn and ridicule from people who aren't ignorant children.

Undercutting of the kind encouraged by massive discounts are a bane, not only for our business, but also for this trade and industry and needs to be ceremoniously discouraged and scorned as unethical business practices.

Hopefully, Smashwords isn't the madman who's been trying to warn us all for years that the end is nigh, only to be scorned and ignored; it bears some serious thought, and perhaps a few preparation steps to protect indies» future livelihoods.

Scorn is a really icky, sticky game that gives you all kinds of visceral, uncomfortable feelings even after only a couple of minutes watching the first trailer.

She also kicks ass and saves the world, but is never the «exceptional woman» who scorns other girls as weak, which is a huge breath of fresh air (d'aww, but only gritty loners are cool and original, right?).

The informed and respectful criticism that it prompted only inflamed tabloid scorn and hardened the intransigence of a pivotal local politician.

The Futurists are famous for considering war «the world's only hygiene,» wanting to «scorn» all women and calling for the destruction of «museums, libraries, academies of every kind.»

Scorn the critics, however, and there is a price to be paid: To this day, the record of the remarkable flowering of art that transpired in Los Angeles in the 1960s and»70s remains only half emerged from an elusive web of witnessing and memory.

The best advice, however, from Mailhot and Carnwath (both judges) in Chapter 8 of their book Decisions, Decisions... a Handbook for Judicial Writing (Yvon Blais, 1998), is for judges to use humour only cautiously: «Judicial humour is neither judicial nor humorous» and that litigants «don't want to be the butt of ridicule or to be the target of scorn, sarcasm, or satire» (p. 111).