Sentences with phrase «pejorative sense»

The title reflects the parallels between the literal degradation of colors in the paint fragments and, in the most pejorative sense of the word, as a synonym of deterioration, specifically in relation to Havana.

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.

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.

It's fairly easy for potential customers to determine whether or not your company is a «dog», in the pejorative sense.

-- It seems that you're giving the «us» in that sentence an exclusivist and pejorative sense that I didn't intend.

In the Bible such constraints are conventionally attributed to «the world» in the pejorative sense of that term, which we may define as the world of the creation reduced by the purposes of any of the forms of selfishness.

This rejection is not limited to doctrinal positions that are «dogmatic» in the pejorative sense of that word.

Eliade understands syncretism not in a pejorative sense but as something inherent in culture and religion to influence each other.

What is truly a miracle, in the pejorative sense of an event having no rational connection with what has gone before, is the emergence of a being with consciousness, free will, and a capacity to understand the laws of nature in a universe which in the beginning contained only matter in mindless motion.

It is not that Podhoretz has twinges of pride, which he would not deny, nor that intellectuals tend to be elitist in the pejorative sense of that term, which nobody can deny.

WWE's foray into niche programming runs deeper than this, too: they have NXT, which seems even more like minor league wrestling — and not in a pejorative sense — since the brand split helped strip the roster for parts, leaving behind many still learning the craft.

Blairite was once a term used to describe those associated with the right of the Labour Party — not necessarily in a pejorative sense.

Now, anyone who dares challenge Corbyn — even folks sympathetic to the cause — is rendered a Blairite — and always in the pejorative sense.

The term «teabagger» is slang (typically used in the pejorative sense) to refer to those that associate themselves with the Tea Party, which is a movement primarily (but not exclusively) associated with the Republican Party in the United States.

Many people can see the word «niche» in a pejorative sense.

Matt goes to town on pummeling the seven - year - delayed Margaret (and in the pejorative sense thinks Kurt and Rot will love it).

The second thing that's wrong with the pie view of the freelance writing world is hustling, at least with its pejorative sense, isn't the way to be successful in the writing game.

In short, my own use of the word «system» is generally not used in any pejorative sense, but is merely reinforcing that for myself, professional planners, and for successful investors, the need to decide ahead of time what the philosophy and such is, will be your best guard against just what you appear to be doing — deciding ad hoc and on a real time basis, and without a pre-thought formal plan, whether to recommend buying, selling, or staying put.

«It's not pretty in a pejorative sense.

Steinberg suggested that early in his career Robert Rauschenberg (1925 - 2008) had exploded the possibilities of painting - in both liberating and pejorative senses - by treating his pictures» surfaces like tables on which anything might be combined with anything.

His wartime diaries, watercolors and paintings are anything but «academic» in the pejorative sense.

Also: «baroque» is sometimes used in a pejorative sense to mean over-elaborate, florid.

It is not «arty» in a pejorative sense - unless you think Pasolini's Gospel According to Saint Matthew and Scorsese's Raging Bull are arty, in which case there's no hope for you.

I don't mean this in a pejorative sense, I mean in in fact.

But not in any pejorative sense; It's a serious question, for sure, what will the future «jobs» be in a highly roboticized economy.

And I'm using «consumer» in a pejorative sense here, namely one who passively (and happily) accepts programmatic decision - making in most aspects of his or her life, such as refrigerators (e.g., handling cooling systems), cars (e.g., protection algorithms to eco-driving), financial markets (e.g., the 2010 flash crash), movie preferences (e.g., the Netflix prize), and healthcare (e.g., knowing whether you are headed to the hospital), just to name a very few things.

What I do find is a plethora — and I mean that in its pejorative sense — of simple summaries of decisions.

Not cheap in a pejorative sense; it indeed costs less than its best competition.