Sentences with phrase «point of some ridicule»

More important, Clarke completely nullified Esposito by hawking him relentlessly, hitting him into the boards and embarrassing him almost to the point of ridicule by winning 48 of their 66 face - offs in the first three games.

The Writers criticism of supporters waving WENGER OUT BANNERS is wrong.Supporters have every right to show their contempt of this man who has now made himself the point of ridicule and a laughing stock within the football world.Im talking opposition supporters, tv and press as well as the ever increasing majority of the Arsenal Fanbase.Who ever wrote this article has misjudged the mood of the support and is badly mistaken if he feels his comments will carry any credibility.How many WENGER IN banners are held up each match?The only chants for Wenger to stay are from our opponents fans.Of course they want him to stay.Why wouldn't they?

If you're speaking with someone who is a believer, there might be a common reference point of ridicule, which is a nice avenue to open up a conversation.

But among researchers, it became «a point of some ridicule for Andy and this Administration,» says oncologist Richard Schilsky of the University of Chicago in Illinois.

Some to the point of ridicule where they become inarticulate, hurl abuse and wild accusations.

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While not all gossip is bad — one can share secrets about wonderful things like a suspected pregnancy or job promotion — Epstein points out that «useful gossip is, in the minds of most people, not what gossip is really about,» and so the majority of the book focuses on the more naughty kind of tattling, the kind that makes your heart beat faster when the subject of ridicule comes around the corner.

DiCaprio has been the target of much criticism and ridicule in the media, especially on Twitter, with posters pointing to the hypocrisy of someone who makes $ 50M from a single movie, owns a private j...

I had a couple of creationist friends who thought I was ridiculing their faith when I pointed out simply that perhaps as it was not accurate that it might be best not to take it literally.

I didn't point this out in the spirit of ridicule or to hurt them.

Jesus understood the Kingdom of God as being manifest in his ministry; all else in his teaching takes its point of departure from this central, awe - inspiring — or ridicule - inspiring, according to one's perspective — conviction.

Look around now, I can guarantee that any «ridicule» you're feeling is only in reaction to christian policy and statements, and sure I lump all of them together because the main point of EVERY christian sect is to get me to accept jesus as my savior and to follow the new testement, only after that does it become more nuanced.

This reminds me strongly of the opponents of Jesus who would ridicule him on the finer points of keeping the Sabbath.

But more to the point, if you look around Belief Blog and other sites, you'll see that there's no shortage of disparaging comments targeting Islam and it's Prophet (ridicule be upon him).

There are those that will mock and ridicule people of faith but Jesus told us that they will do to us what they did to him so it should come as no big surprise even the disciples and apostle and one point in their lives either didn't believe or persecuted people who did believe until their eyes were opened this is nothing new.

If anyone else had asked about what «safe» mans in that context, and pointed out what doesn't make sense about that, would you accuse them of blatant contempt, ridicule and irrationality?

(I've had people assume I hold certain typically «side A» interpretations because I'm in the affirming camp — to the point of being ridiculed for beliefs I don't actually hold, which is quite frustrating.)

These humanists believed that God's enemies deserve to be ridiculed, and that humor offers an effective way of pointing out error and showing the truth by contrast.

Mr. Errazuriz's claim that the point of the prank is to send a message against intolerance is transparent, since his motive is to make money and fifteen minutes of fame by ridiculing the Catholic faith.

They say to respect and not ridicule different points of view, but with this kind of views, it is hard to respect anyone.

The whole point of satire is that the writer throws up a recognizable characiture — usually a buffoon with hallmark characteristics that identify him / her to something readily knowable — that is used to tear down a power system through ridicule.

Well, maybe I won't enjoy football the same way after CR retires but the point stands still, football can and should be discussed without trying to constantly ridicule any of these two guys.

The final breaking point was when I — disabled by a number of issues — fought my way through many challenges only to be ridiculed for my parenting choices, again and again, some very hard to make.

She dropped the stateswoman schtick briefly to ridicule a journalist who asked about the border in event of independence and pointed to the example of Northern Ireland and the Republic.

While at that, I must point a weakness in running this type of government — fighting corruption becomes difficult as individuals to be prosecuted and perhaps ridiculed for indulging in corruption would be relations as we are witnessing already.

Reminder of Clinton's energy action points she was trying to push before ridiculed with editorials and letters from these Obama - supporting economists into shutting up:

From the woman's point of view, the most important way to help is never to ridicule or pressure, no matter how frustrating the problem gets.

Gleamed from interviews re-created here, Tonya, her ridiculed ex-husband Jeff Gillooly (Sebastian Stan), skating coach Diane Rawlinson (Julianne Nicholson), her supposed bodyguard / special terrorist advisor Shawn Eckhardt (Paul Walter Hauser), and finally, her deliciously evil mother, LaVona Golden (Allison Janney) all participate in telling the events from their point of view.

Whilst the central characters all get their conflicting say, all are equally ridiculed, reviled, and respected in a film that doesn't so much mock its subjects as much as point the finger of shame and blame at us, the audience, fascinated by this tabloid tale of greed, violence and figure skating.

This makes it all the more impressive that he's now given us a beautifully proportioned work in which 30 fairly well defined characters don't seem excessive, most of the plot points aren't hyped, and the director's ridicule, while far from absent, isn't allowed to dominate our own responses.

The concern was that some states would be starting with such low percentages of minority students at grade level that just requiring that as a starting point would subject the law to ridicule for having embarrassingly low standards.

Once again I am responding to an article on teacher shortage.What this minister fails to address is the way successive governments have contributed to denigrate and ridicule teachers over the past twenty years.Now they are blaming other factors as the causes of teachers leaving and I do not see any finger pointing at Ofsted who must take part of the blame for this crisis.It seems to me that ministers must come clean by holding up their hands and admit that they are part of the problem.Teachers will continue to leave until there is a complete reversal by a society which states that this is a noble profession and one that needs to be cherished and protected instead of being constantly attacked by various members in the community.The time for attacking teachers is over and now we can see the real causes for this.Good luck to all those in the teaching profession.You do a wonderful job amidst trying circumstances.I take my hat off to you.

Car and Driver yet jokingly ridiculed the Metro's age and equipment, docking seven points from its overall score for its lack of amenities and mentioning that it was originally sold brand - new without hubcaps.

He has the ability of finding the weak point of those around him and ridiculing them — family, schoolmates... he drives them all to despair!

In these last years Turner seems to have been at his most experimental, perhaps age had set him free, as the title of the exhibition suggests, because by this point Turner was painting for himself and for his art which was at the time mocked and ridiculed.

Judith Curry points us to McIntyre ridiculing the notion of teleconnections.

Not much left but ridicule of you and your phoniness at this point.

And there is a cost — this thread of petty point - scoring and ridicule approaches 400 comments, while the much more productive thread on your review reply, where the «denizens» could actually contribute something to a real scientific discussion, languishes in near silence.

Of course, there is little point to ridiculing them either — but it's a bad habit I haven't yet kicked.

Will you say you are sorry Bill for ridiculing those of us who pointed out that a warming world should have less severe weather, not more?

Naturally, Greenpeace is doing it's best to ridicule the process, pointing out that «the eleven are also facing the obscure charge of having committed an offence against Denmark's Queen.»

I didn't ridicule you about your» misleading temperature charts» I just pointed that you are barking up the wrong tree and are destroying your own credibility... I can not be wrong, because I am guided by the laws of physics, not like you, by the characters in IPCC, characters that should be in jail.

Their seasonal forecasting has been hopeless — to the point where they have stopped issuing them because of the ridicule they subsequently received.

But Howell makes the point that women's committees, if ineffective, actually do more harm than good because they may wind up as an object of ridicule.

Hardware buttons on the front of Android phones are basically all but dead at this point, and any company releasing a phone with a 16:9 display in 2018 will surely be met with scorn and ridicule.

After all, Google made it a point to ridicule Apple's removal of the venerable port.