Sentences with phrase «plain meaning»

Use a simple language that conveys plain meaning of what you intend to say.

They make unfounded assertions and are just plain mean at times.

While this is ridiculous and just plain mean because the team truly deserves honours for their play, its no secret that this team needs a makeover.

Keeping walls plain means you can mix old and new pieces to create an eclectic decorating scheme.

arbaric and just plain mean for having my son circumsized, lazy and selfish for «giving up» on breast feeding and for buying jarred baby food instead of making my own, abusive for feeding my kid McDonald's, flamed for vaccinating my child against the flu, the list goes on..

Does Piper's response not «reinterpret apparently plain meanings of biblical texts» and rely on a bit of «technical ingenuity»?

Here's a hint «Paul's description is too brief to make absolutely plain the meaning of ruining whole households by teaching things they ought not to teach (v. 11).

I looove the thrill of stalking but yes, people are harsh / rude and just plain mean quite often..

Since the NAACP at its national convention voted on a resolution that placed a moratorium on charter schools, the backlash from charter advocates has been angry, well - financed and sometimes just plain mean leading up to a vote of ratification by the national board, which occurred this past weekend.

As in the case of fellow German marque BMW, Mercedes designations have fairly plain meanings: The 560 indicates a 5.6 - liter V - 8 engine; «S» designates Mercedes» top - of - the - line class of cars, which includes a couple of sedans, a coupe and a roadster; «E» means einspritzung, German for fuel injection; «L'» is short for «long wheelbase.»

He will be much missed as a writer who could make plain the meaning behind even the most complicated art.»

What I noticed was that, not only in that case, in which Major J. pointed to the flaw in the CRA's argument but in numerous other cases as I read further, how much the Court preferred plain meanings, and presumably then, plain English (or French).

It's a rather unusual use of «clarify» where what the 2nd case says the first case said is literally the exact opposite of the [ahem] plain meaning of the English words used in the first case.

In the complementarian manifesto, the Danvers Statement, egalitarians are accused of «accepting hermeneutical oddities devised to reinterpret apparently plain meanings of biblical texts,» resulting in a «threat to Biblical authority as the clarity of Scripture is jeopardized and the accessibility of its meaning to ordinary people is withdrawn into the restricted realm of technical ingenuity.»

Paul's description is too brief to make absolutely plain the meaning of ruining whole households by teaching things they ought not to teach (v. 11).

Are real life Christians as rude and bigotted and intolerant and just plain mean as they are on the Belief Blog?

Scammers, stalkers, online antagonists ready to pick a fight, folks who are just plain mean — what is it about the Web that turns people into jerks?

That's part of the problem when haters speak out without being thoughtful or intentionally being just plain mean.

Whatever place this is that Charles Reid inhabits in his head, it certainly has a cloudy atmosphere, if he can so misunderstand a prelate's plain meaning, and twist a celebration of the new Holy Father into dyspeptic grumbling about him.

Plus they are all just plain mean.

Atheism is pointless and many atheists are plain mean and uncaring.

Indeed, the founding father once remarked «How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words» — an invocation that Justice Scalia reprised in his indignant King v. Burwell dissent.

But nowhere did Justice Scalia ever advance the argument that the plain meaning of the law was always apparent.

No matter the religion or lack of it, no matter the country or the race, some people are just plain mean.

In another essay he casts a distrustful eye to learned commentaries — in his view, they often obscure the plain meaning of the text as they explore the linguistic and historical context of a passage.

Of course, putting the matter that way invariably provokes murmurs or howls of protest, and down the years Christians have found a number of ingenious ways of getting around the plain meaning of Christ's words.

Somehow Angus seems more honest than all those divines who tried to explain away the plain meaning of the text.

David Bentley Hart's reflections on the «ingenious ways» in which Christians over the centuries have sought to get around «the plain meaning of Christ's words» about wealth as an impediment to entering the kingdom of God brought to mind the old story of Angus the Scotsman.

«Take note,» he writes, «how much Paul's teaching differs from the plain meaning....

Sure, using Google autocomplete to gauge widespread cultural opinions is somewhat anecdotal, but modern Christians have developed an unfortunate reputation for being easily offended, defensive and just plain mean.

If one assumes that x % of the world population is just plain mean and nasty you could say that same x % would be mean and nasty no matter what they believed.

There is only one way to interpret literature, that is to base our interpretation on the context and the plain meaning of the words that the author chose to convey his thoughts to the reader.

I am talking about people who are supposed to give testimony and are just plain mean.

The idea of firing the headline writer is silly and just plain mean - spirited.

But the point of contention usually seems to be, in essence, the same: in reducing the claim regarding God's once - for - all act in behalf of human salvation to a re-presentation of the «original possibility of authentic existence» (1:146), it is argued, Ogden quite simply subverts the plain meaning of the New Testament proclamation of redemption in and through Jesus Christ.1

They must thus seek to understand the plain meaning of the text, but that meaning can not be fully grasped apart from metaphysical clarification.

However that may be, there can be no getting away from the plain meaning of «also on earth.»

But you are just plain mean to people.

And to accept the arguments of the abolitionist, our great - great - grandparents had to see beyond the «plain meaning» of proof texts like Ephesians 6:1 - 5, Colossians 3:18 - 25; 4:1, and I Timothy 6:1 - 2 and instead be compelled by the general sweep of Scripture toward justice and freedom.