Sentences with word «pejorative»

It would be very good to have a ceasefire from insult and the use of pejorative terms about people at this time.

Benson also flirts with decoration, another narrative cast aside as pejorative in the history of modernism.

You misquote, misrepresent, use pejorative language, name calling, personal ad - hominem attacks, and other behavior unfit for Godly online dialogue.

During the 19th century the term acquired pejorative connotations, meaning trivial or over-ornate.

The term «black box» will be bandied around in a highly pejorative way.

Like the words «sectarian» and «fundamentalist,» which have appeared with disturbing regularity in Supreme Court opinions, «indoctrinate» has a literal meaning that is not pejorative.

Critics now apply pejorative labels like «fuzzy math» or «new new math» to this sensible effort to ratchet up expectations in mathematics classrooms.

Norse sagas mention slaves — «thralls» in Old Norse — who were often given pejorative names like Stinky, Stumpy, and Stupid.

Even with the difficulties discussed above, the conversation about cross-gen games and development is riddled with pejorative connotations.

This case involved the complaint arising from the notorious comments he made to a sexual assault complainant, and other pejorative comments about the law of sexual assault, during a trial when he was a judge of the Provincial Court of Alberta, at Calgary.

Instead of running ads, they would define Scheer more slowly, over time, with a series of forced choices in Parliament, through government motions, much as opposition parties usually seek to define governments (you'll note that «define» in Ottawa politics is almost always pejorative by implication) through clever use of their occasional opportunity to define a day's parliamentary debate through so - called «supply motions.»

You wrote, «You misquote, misrepresent, use pejorative language, name calling, personal ad - hominem attacks, and other behavior unfit for Godly online dialogue.»

Sandi, at the risk of sounding pejorative, it is for the same reason that doctors go to hospitals.

In the first chapter, he reclaims the word dogma from its popular pejorative meaning, defining it as an accurate statement of what is true, and setting out the relation between philosophy and theology that frames the rest of the book.

These are lose definitions and are not all favored by people (Big Government is a bit more pejorative as it gives the idea of a soulless giant monster ala Big Industry, Big Medicine, Big Oil) so the term is rarely used by people who support it.

In New York on Tuesday, both Mayor Bill de Blasio and immigration professors said «family reunification» could be a less pejorative synonym for «chain migration.»

«My view is, frankly, that people in law schools know more about teaching and learning and training than most members of the law society, and I don't mean that to sound pejorative at all, but we all have our areas of expertise.»

The mayor claimed that the resident had engaged in workplace harassment and violence, contrary to the OHSA, by sending her numerous «increasingly abrasive» letters and emails in which he made pejorative statements about the mayor and made comments about the «unprofessional conduct» of the town.

«Especially when prominent and conservative faculty members make pejorative statements and the university administration remains silent.

But I feel compelled to comment that your 8/17/12 summons used some highly pejorative terms in an attempt to smear my reputation as a veterinarian.

Furthermore, the very word «labor» has to many a distinctly pejorative ring, especially in mainline Protestant churches.

All of this is true; yet in common parlance «to preach at someone,» «to give someone a sermon,» or «to sound preachy» are decidedly pejorative expressions.

It's a crowd - pleaser in only a slightly pejorative sense: Russell ultimately isn't making a film about mental health, or even respecting its long - term effects.

Without reading more, you already know that the judge is inclined to rule in favour of the individuals, through the somewhat pejorative use of the defined term «Taxman»:

It seemed he could hardly talk about anything else, which struck his critics as a borderline unhealthy obsession and stuck him with all manner of unfortunate pejoratives like «communist» and «marxist.»

@BenCollins - The answer below is an opinion that the representative intended to use the term as the racial pejorative.

Yet if one does not «believe climate change is real» one is castigated with pejorative adjectives by those who equivocate between «climate change» and «catastrophic anthropogenic global warming»!

This can be easily dismissed by such now pejorative terms as «metaphysics» or «speculation.»

Yet because Muslims regard the Qur» an as literally the word of God, it is a mistake to regard them as «fundamentalists» in the popular pejorative sense.

(«Social pretense» refers simply to conventional standards and is not necessarily pejorative.)

Paul's highly pejorative description of homosexual practice in Romans 1:24 - 27 — «dishonorable» or «degrading,» «contrary to nature,» an «indecency» or «shameful / obscene behavior,» and a fit «payback» for straying from God — suggests that Paul regarded homosexual practice as an especially serious infraction of God's will, in line with all Jewish perspectives of the time.

First used during colonial times, Isai now carries pejorative overtones of street sweeping and other occupations done by the lowest castes.

Like loose pages torn from a journal, the «paintings» on view are encrusted with lascivious catcalls, terms of endearment, drunken pejorative slurs, and teenage slang.

Remember his Dad's underground campaign slogan «vote for Cuomo, not the [pejorative for his gay opponent Ed Koch]»?

Their emphasis is on challenging pejorative notions of the ordinary and, in doing so, moving beyond the quotidian.

The highly intellectually gifted child has as much right to inclusion, to an appropriate educational program, and to a school environment free from pejorative remarks about his or her abilities, as any other child.

This is a meaningless phrase with a sneering or pejorative nuance.

And when I myself use it or hear it being used, it is almost always pejorative.

It gives us a way to speak fully and honestly about the work of Jesus without implying anything pejorative about other communities of faith.

If we are to speak of extremes — without pejorative intent — at the other end of the spectrum would be those services planned by administrators (whether presidents, deans or chaplains) which have survived as full - blown Christian liturgies expressing the theological tradition behind the institution's establishment.

It is likely that they will encounter the same self - doubts and resentment as do male clergy at pejorative assumptions about chronological age.