Sentences with phrase «ridiculed when»

One added feature that I ridiculed when it rolled out, I believe the term «goofy» was used, has turned out to be tremendous fun.

She was ridiculed when she made her debut in 1965, and no one at the time made the links between her work and a critical discussion of surface, product, copyright and autonomy.

When I was a boy, my friends in the south of the Netherlands always ridiculed me when I came home from vacations in the north, where I played with boys from Amsterdam.

One statistic de Blasio did not focus on is the relativey flat rate of minorities being stopped by police, which he ridiculed when he ran for mayor last year.

I find it surprising that Corbyn's economics are being so roundly ridiculed when, unlike the policies of austerity, they are based on text book macroeconomics.

I've spoken with twenty - somethings whose families ridiculed them when they came to Christianity and with women whose professors sneered at them when they challenged feminist teachings.

I empathize with people who are scolded when they apparently succeed and ridiculed when they apparently don't.

Schools desperate to prove the practical applications of their degrees are funnelling unpaid labourers to employers: the Fairmont Waterfront Hotel in Vancouver was justifiably ridiculed when it advertised for four unpaid busboy «internships,» but the jobs were defended by Vancouver Community College, who said «even dishwashing» is an education.

hawaiiguest Perhaps you fear ridicule when your answer betrays what you felt has been a logical and reasoned approach to discredit the authority of the Bible.

It left them wide open to ridicule when contrasted with the austerity of the Cathar preachers.

To be fair, she wields the same ridicule when attending a convention of radical «unschoolers.»

Johnny Miller, making his 2018 season debut Saturday on NBC's golf coverage, invited ire and ridicule when he trotted out his tired anti-workout rant during Rory McIlroy's third round at the Arnold Palmer Invitational.

But in their true character (or lack of), none of them gave Wenger any credit for being the first to raise the issue and neither did they apologise or show any remorse for ridiculing him when he prophetically raised it.

Does he defeat that ancient movie curse which risks ridicule when giant fantasy creatures start talking?

They may have met with some ridicule when Apple revealed them, but the ongoing stock shortages would suggest that the mass market doesn't care: they want their AirPods, and they're willing to pay $ 159 for them.

I don't think we should «reward» the celebrities who make movies or TV shows that we love to watch with stalking and intimidation, just so we can gawp at and ridicule them when they are exposed in private moments.

Not exact matches

The National Party was ridiculed back in 2014 when the case was first filed and lawmaker Steven Joyce defended using the song, an action he said was «pretty legal.»

Most of the greatest thinkers and doers in history were ridiculed and chastised when they created change.

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.

Further, when Conrad Black arrived for a court appearance in 2007 without socks, he was widely ridiculed.

«When you diminish the impact of his single policy that he ridiculed all other candidates for over a year.

«We heard that others were upset, but just got ridiculed over and over by Yelpers for «crying wolf» when we weren't... Now, look, everyone else is saying the same thing.

As John Kenneth Galbraith wrote, most people «deem it unwise to be sane when sanity exposes one to ridicule, condemnation for spoiling the game or the threat of severe political retribution».

He and his top lieutenant Emil Michael, who was forced to leave the company just weeks ago, belittled and ridiculed Lyft's president for an hour when the two companies met to discuss a potential deal, according to a recent New York Times profile (paywall) of Kalanick.

It is not a perfect analogy but — except, of course, for the part in which analyses that use the number of bookshops as a proxy for literacy are widely ridiculed — it is nonetheless similar to what happens when the health of the Chinese economy is measured by the reported GDP data, or when second - order measures, such as the dependence of Chinese growth on debt, is estimated by looking at credit growth in relation to GDP growth.

When it was reported last January that the Pences would be moving some of their family pets — which include two cats, a rabbit, and a snake — into the Naval Observatory, Trump ridiculed the menagerie to his secretary, according to a longtime adviser.

There is much that could be said about this, but I will stick with one thing, based on discussion at about the 2 minute mark: When atheists insist that atheism does not drive behavior, and then then campaign on behalf of atheism, ridicule religion and religious believers in the name of atheism, seek to change laws in favor of their atheistic positions, recommend the extermination of religion, and practice falsehoods like Dawkins's in support of atheism, they prove that their atheism drives their behavior and that their premise is false, disingenuous, and (as far as I can tell) useless for anything but giving atheism rhetorical cover from being implicated in atheists» atrocities.

Also, is it living when you have to face ridicule, and hide everything you do because the religiouse majority persecute everyone around them that is different?

Maybe when Christians stop toting themselves as the moral authority on EVERYTHING and keep their noses out of peoples personal lives AND stop trying to keep taxpaying American citizens from having rights (ie gays)... maybe then they will come into less ridicule.

You see muslims getting into an uproar because their prophet Muhammad was depicted... but they believe Jesus was a prophet, as well, and do NOTHING when He is depicted and ridiculed by the world.

Ridicule first, when the enemy continues to hold and grow, move to the next step.

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.

We really don't need young, susceptible, weak - minded women spouting «I'm an atheist» who roll over when their beliefs are rejected or ridiculed by others.

When we run candidates who believe in multiple Gods and call themselves Christian we open ourselves up to analytical ridicule.

Out of all the postings on this site today, I found «Derp's «post the most fascinating and informative, as well as deeply revealing.Even after boasting of what seems to be a practically perfect live by any measure, he informs us that he takes pleasure in mocking and ridiculing those of faith who are presumably his opposite; I can only wonder if, given all his supposed accomplishments, he is smart enough to realize how deeply revealing of his true character his remarks are.As a believer, I rarely engage in arguments with my atheist friends, and like to think I wouldn't lower myself to the level of juvenile name - calling and personal attacks against whatever my atheist friends hold dear.Most of the time we simply agree to disagree; when they hold forth with misinformation or ignorance on their assumed «knowledge «of my faith, I try to gently correct them; I certainly don't allow any disagreements we have to devolve into hateful insults and name - calling.

When you place billboards ridiculing other people's beliefs, you are doing a lot more than «not believing».

When we speak publicly on «the larger issues of life» simply because of the feeling of power such action provides, we risk ridicule.

You don't sound like someone who feels blessed and exceeding glad when people ridicule your beliefs.

When the world ridicules celibacy and shouts and clamours for its abolition, it does so in a state of spiritual sickness and ignorance.

On the upside, I've never been ridiculed or ostracized on account of my Christian faith, and it's easy to live a moral lifestyle when most of my friends and neighbors share my value system.

Ridiculing Obama's efforts to engage the international community, Huckabee said, «There was once a time when our foreign policy was, «Walk softly and carry a big stick»... Our new policy is, walk softly and carry a great big olive branch, or maybe even a bag of Stay Puft marshmallows so that when we build around the campfire we can sing «Kumbaya» and have a lovely time holding arms and talking about how well we're getting on.»

When the worst man listens to Tao, he greatly ridicules it.

It was fairly easy - and rather fun - to ridicule these last, and I had a very enjoyable time in the 1990s when a group called the «Catholic Women's Network» fell for a spoof which I wrote about a group of well - to - do ladies sitting round a swimming pool with wine and salads bemoaning their lot and denouncing the Church's teachingson marriage and sexual morality.

Father God looks down and cries when HE sees anyone ridiculing anyone!

Ridicule may wound his feelings but just by that wound it shows that he is on the right path — the path of honor and of victory, like a warrior's wound, when it is on the breast where both the wound and the badge of honor are to be borne.

When I see Catholic priests and nuns I don't ridicule them for their outfits, I simply accept them for who they are.

Yet when religions talk about alternate states of being and planes of existence, they are ridiculed by believers in «science.»

[68:51] Those who disbelieved show their ridicule in their eyes when they hear the message and say, «He is crazy!»

You can continue to write about «principals» and «hypocracy» if you want, but others have every right to ridicule you for being dumb when you do.

It's when you start trying to have conversations with adults and sharing these imaginations as fact that you open yourself and your theory to ridicule.