Sentences with phrase «point of outrage»

Energy Minister Smitherman scoffs, saying «If they've elevated their opposition to the point of outrage, then I think they're getting themselves worked up into an artificial lather.»

Not exact matches

In the case of people using Margaret Atwood's 1985 novel as a means of voicing political outrage, users are finding creative ways to illustrate an important point.

Last week Schroepfer was on the sharp end of lots of awkward questions from visibly outraged committee members, with Collins pointing to what he dubbed a «pattern of behavior» by Facebook that he said suggested an «unwillingness to engage, and a desire to hold onto information and not disclose it».

The last point remins me of the fake outrage the happened when Samuel L Jackson read a Christmas story.

The outrage comes against those who make provoking statements just for the point of being provocative, see any post by Reality.

The outrage in Arizona has sparked another cycle of mutual recriminations between liberals and conservatives that points up what seems to be a growing chasm running through our political culture.

Now and then we hear tragic stories of friends who fell out to the point that disappointment led to outrage, and outrage to murder.

They regularly point out that comparably vicious statements directed at Jews or blacks or homosexuals would spark a firestorm of outrage.

The scarcity of His outrage points to the impact outrage can have when it is correctly employed.

Many of those outraged by the allegations against Penn State, including that Paterno had reportedly been told about the abuse but declined to notify authorities, have pointed a finger at what they say was the school's and its football program's commitment to maintaining a sterling public image, drawing parallels to the church.

That statement sparked a lot of reflex outrage, which seemed to confirm that a very sore point had been touched — as if to say, «This is a painful topic, and we don't appreciate your bringing it up.»

Former Auburn player Heath Evans is getting out in front of the outrage, and he's got talking points.

His 42.5 — a mere 6.6 for amplitude — snared second and outraged those who thought the weighting of the points system was too height - heavy.

In the wake of a World Cup match in which Uruguayan player Luis Suarez bit an opponent, there was a not dissimilar wave of moral outrage, to which straight - talking Gordon Strachan made the following point:

He said Cox would have «responded with outrage» to the «calculated cynicism» of the «breaking point» anti-immigration poster unveiled by Nigel Farage shortly before her death.

It is not, «Ask her when she is sober,»» Gillibrand said at one point, nearly leaping out of her chair with outrage.

Making an audience laugh in the aisles while smuggling in deep political points is not as easy as it seems, and In The Loop's outrage at the events which led to the Iraq war shine through every minute of the film's running time.

«We knew we had to start preparing then for the 2015 rent law renewal and I said, «I want an issue that kind of encapsulates all the talking points, captures the outrage of big real estate's buying power in Albany, something that would rile people up,»» Benjamin told Gotham Gazette.

If outrage about corruption is pervasive statewide, recent polling suggests it may be even more acute in the suburbs: In a recent Siena College poll, 54 percent of suburban New York voters said they were less likely to re-elect their own legislators because of recent corruption scandals, about 10 percentage points more than the share of rural and New York City voters who said the same.

London Labour MEP Seb Dance held up a sign which read «He's lying to you» along with an arrow pointing directly at Farage, as the former Ukip leader delivered an impassioned speech accusing senior EU figures of «hypocrisy» and «faux outrage» over the ban.

So, when I fail to share your outrage about your institution's grant - redistribution policies, it's for cause, and not for a lack of general sympathy with your point of view.

Further to this point, these films often tend, in the process of demonstrating how this homicidal «skill» is perceived by the public with a combination of outrage and titillation, to become caught up in that same set of contradictions.

And this whiplashing between accolades and outrage and «that's the point of it» defenses has been the roller - coaster narrative for «Three Billboards,» far from a straight path to Oscar.

«MGS Ground Zeroes can be finished in an hour» chorused the headlines, assuming outrage on behalf of the audience — while largely missing the point.

The film does this often, and it points to an attitude of understanding amidst the obvious outrage.

Documentary filmmaker Michael Moore points his lens at America's finances, using his trademark blend of in - your - face humor and liberal outrage to question whether capitalism, as being practiced today, is really the best, and most ethical, system of doing business.

Although the public expressed outrage, even at one point rioting in New York City when it was discovered that a white woman's body had been disinterred, many people just looked the other way when the bodies of recently deceased black people were similarly defiled.

Speak about some public figure, this is going to be a very good subject for your essay writing, however, remember that all your ideas for a reflective essay should be presented in official way, without outraging someone, as at this point, you are going to blamed in non-observing the ethic of academic writing.

It seems, based on the well over 300 comments received, that the point in the article that had outraged most people — even though it's as common as the cast of «Honey Boo Boo» — is that (gasp!)

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Many animal humane groups and public officials are outraged at the idea of resuming domestic slaughter, including New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez, who points to the iconic animal's role as a loyal companion in the West.

This week we discuss the idea of games causing controversy and moral outrage and whether we face an era of increased self censorship, acknowledge Nintendo's belated adoption of everyone's beloved DLC, point out why Final Fantasy XIII's Lightning was a abominable idea for a main character...

While the heroes situation caused a huge outrage because they're one of the selling points of the series, there are a number of items and skills that can only be accessed by using in - game credits or paying real money for with micro-transactions.

If you want some overwrought outrage and a high concentration of people missing the point of things, a good place to start is GameFAQs.

I don't subjectify my women; rather, they allow me to reinvestigate a myth from my point of view: rather than rape, there's pleasurable co-joining, as in Danae and the Parakeet; rather than the terrified victim, there's resistant outrage, as in Europa and the Flying Fish.»

Two other points about this year's prize: the show is being held in the museum's basement instead of the main floor, which feels apt since the prize itself is surely beginning to decline as any kind of front - page outrage.

In their various permutations and representations of the scenes pictured in the paintings, their underlying connotations oscillate between helpless outrage and despair and hysterical amusement, dissecting with razor sharp humor and pointed outrage the tragedy of our political reality.

They have used it to inform films like An Inconvenient Truth and Merchants of Doubt, scaremongering books like Boiling Point and lots of outraged newspaper articles.

It advanced because of two investigators outside of the walls of climate science (McIntyre and McKitrick 2003 & 2005) relentlessly investigated, and published pointed critiques that outraged the science's gatekeepers.

Since the potentially fake document is the source of most of the recent outrage about HI, this is not a small point.

Like so many people who make a point to read labels and know the sources of my food, I became outraged.

The exposé of a black - tie, men - only fundraising event jolted London's business and political circles, becoming a focal point for public outrage over sexual harassment and the objectification of women.

By examining the ways in which dominant media focuses on eliciting emotional reactions from privileged, Western readers — including the emotion of moral outrage — on behalf of victims of poverty, famine, or violence in far - flung parts of the world, Ahmed points out the ways in which emotions can reproduce dominant power relations.

Ahmed also points out that although stories of injustice, war, and violence are disconcerting for spectators, emotions such as grief and moral outrage function to allow these privileged Western spectators to «feel better» about the injustices that they are witnessing through subsequent discourses of compassion and charity.

The systematic, point - by - point (and surely heavily lawyered) response to the worst crisis in Facebook's history has virtually no chance of calming the outrage or quelling the disgust that many Facebook users are feeling this week.

Initially, Facebook's reaction was one of outrage and finger - pointing.

Many, though, expressed outrage, claiming the feature could be a trigger for the estimated 30 million Americans with eating disorders, pointing out that compulsive calorie counting is a warning sign of some disorders such as anorexia.

We never expected the outrage over the design of a hamburger emoji to bubble up to the point where Google's CEO had to personally intervene, but such is 2017.