Sentences with phrase «pejorative term so»

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It was not so very long ago that everyone called them â $ œtar sands.â $ It wasnâ $ ™ t a pejorative, but merely a descriptive term for the tarry treasure once seen as the ideal substance for paving Albert...

In contrast, the term global warming hysteria is not so personally pejorative.

But I do not know if Muray's reasons for rejecting these are anything like mine, for he does not tell us why he thinks they are not so good; he merely uses the terms as if they were obviously pejorative, like the term «racism.»

(1) Indeed the term acquires, in some quarters there, a pejorative flavor, so persistent among Pentecostals is a characteristic mistrust of the formal academic enterprise.

This is a movie that so privileges the perspective of the good - looking foofy - haired white male that it makes you understand the absolutely pejorative aspect of the term «heteronormative.»

The term «vanity publishing» is a pejorative implying that the writer could not get something published, so he or she paid a publisher to print up a few cartons of books that collect dust somewhere.

The term «genre» eventually becomes pejorative because you're referring to something that's so codified and ritualized it ceases to have the power and meaning it had when it first started.

This term was later twisted to the pejorative «hunt n» peck» because numerous graphic adventure games, in lieu of offering clever and interesting puzzles, would hide important items in a 2 - pixel - square hit area so that the player's only recourse was to slowly scan each and every location by trawling the cursor slowly over the screen in rows, like he was a human dot matrix printer.

If it weren't so seemingly pejorative a term, we might be tempted to say that Jensen performs a generic form of abstraction.

And when it started being called Zombie Formalism, not so much by me but just by the writers for The New York Times, and by Roberta Smith and by Jerry Saltz, picked up the term right away as a pejorative.