Sentences with phrase «scandalous at»

The most damning thing the investigators could muster was that there was «some concern» over the statistical methods used, but that's not scandalous at all; there's always some argument in science over methodology.

Not really scandalous at all.

The exhibition not only shows Saint Phalle's numerous shooting paintings — considered scandalous at the time — but also footage of her in action, standing before her canvases where she would plaster on small pots and bags of paint and then shoot at them mercilessly with a shotgun till they bled paint.

It was a bit scandalous at the time, as Stewart was just wrapping up her Twilight career (unfortunately no vampire / human / werewolf threesome in those movies).

To suddenly come out of the woodwork with plans to include it in a regulator system is disingenuous at best and downright scandalous at worst.

But it's a perfect example of the kind of cherry - picking that internet politics enables: look hard enough at just about anything online and you'll find something scandalous at the edges.

Courtesy of www.inhabitots.com It turns out attachment parenting isn't scandalous at all, though some still consider it to be.

It turns out attachment parenting isn't scandalous at all, though some still consider it to be.

It felt scandalous at first and then it felt like freedom.

Not exact matches

Just as the capital Kuala Lumpur settles down following a fraught rally last week, at which riot police turned water cannons on supporters of the PM, top U.S. media outlets, the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) and the New York Times (NYT), have reported yet more scandalous allegations about the country's sovereign wealth fund.

Friday's sudden departure of AMP chief executive Craig Meller provides a less than fitting end to the scandalous revelations this week at the Hayne royal commission.

But he continued to believe that the great religious upheaval in the Christian West at the dawn of the modern era had involved both the necessity of reform and a division at once scandalous and tragic.

And it was there in the warm South Seas — the other side of the world from the city where men like Fly were «pent up in lath and plaster, tied to counters, nailed to benches, clinched to desks» — that at age twenty - three he found Nature's own paradise on an island in the Marquesas and in the arms of a woman he fictionalized as «Fayaway» in Typee (1846), the scandalous first novel he wrote upon his return.

It was there in Manhattan he was unhappily schooled, first at the Male School on Crosby Street and then at the Columbia Grammar School, and there he returned thirty years later to spend the bitter, dark end of his life — a misemployed customs inspector turned drunkard, possibly a wife - beater, and the forgotten man of American letters: a minor author who'd written a scandalous sea - tale or two early in life and hadn't had the sense to quit writing.

As a college student, Charles Wesley remarked, «Christ Church is certainly the worst place in the world to begin a reformation; a man stands a very fair chance of being laughed out of his religion at his first setting out, in a place where» t is scandalous to have any at all.»

Irregular and scandalous ways of celebrating the Lord's supper have developed in the church at Corinth, and Paul feels it necessary to appeal to the tradition to correct them.

But at the heart of our Christian faith is a more radical, even scandalous, trust that God — in God's self — also suffers with us.

If someone was born in Saudi Arabia, they would be Muslim and if they were born in the US, they would be Christian... It's up to them to figure out that religion is a crock before they waste their whole life worshiping a non-existent friend in the sky and believing in a book full of fairy tales... My favorite fairy tale is about the guy who was told not to look behind and was turned into a block of salt when he disobeyed the command and took a peak... lol... I was raised christian but I had too many doubts and questions especially after our scandalous pastor took the money that was raised to build a new church building and disappeared into thin air with the loot... lol... After I ditched religion, I had a peace of mind and I am still at peace...

Cardinal Dolan's appearance at the GOP convention is outrageous, scandalous and completely out of step with the US Bishops condemnation of the Ryan budget.

As my friend Ray says, grace is scandalous, and to view relationships in a Christlike lens, we have to look at others with scandalous grace.

We agree about this, and also, in principle at least, that demythologizing throws into sharper relief the paradoxical or scandalous character of its claims, so that they become as clear for modern man as they were in apostolic times.

We are so used to reading the Bible as a «Holy Book» that we often fail to see how humorous and delightful it can be... even, at times, scandalous and bawdy.

Here's what happened: late last year Andrew Mitchell, a Tory MP and, indeed, Chief Whip, bicycled to a meeting at 10 Downing Street, which hardly seems scandalous.

In Paul's letter to Christians at Corinth, all discussion of sexual ethics occurs in the context of concern that Christians should not be influenced by the scandalous conduct of the pagans.

On Thursday (Nov. 15), theatergoers at the opening night performance of «Scandalous» will witness a never - before - seen trifecta.

«Humanists who do not believe in God or a future life have been in a stronger position to insist on the urgency of making things better at once, in this [life]... If this is the only life that anybody has, then the fact that many people must spend it in such misery becomes more obviously and inexcusably scandalous.

At present dissident voices use the scandalous weakness of some Church leaders to foster that denial of the Church» sdivinity which Cardinal Ratzinger highlighted back in his 1985 Report.

At times woefully scandalous, they threaten to hinder the Church's evangelical mission.

No one, Jew or Gentile, would have been taken aback at a statement that the power of God is greater than men; Paul's scandalous proposition is that the weakness of God reveals His true power, including the power to triumph over sin and death.

At first glance, this answer is scandalous in a liberal culture, which promises freedom for freedom's sake, limited only by external considerations of public utility and to prevent harm to others.

If Wenger drops 3 points at the bridge on Saturday then he should bury his head in shame... oh, I forgot, what manner of manager would mark his 1000th game with a scandalous score line and still be comfortable.

the way we have played till now i hope that we only lose it marginally... getting routed at the lane would be scandalous

These are only the botched attempts at signings, the selling of players that we nurtured and waited for years to only then be sold at their peaks to rivals is scandalous and some of the fees we excepted for Henry and Vieira when they were still huge assets was poor aswel.

The media were driving the narrative because of the scandalous nature of those 3 losses and it is one that many Gooners were willing to accept out of the hurt that they feel from the nature of the results rather than look at the entire results from the league for why we lost.

As for Tottenham and Harry Redknapp, an earlier splendid spell ground almost to a halt in the closing weeks of the season and the 5 - 1 FA Cup semi final defeat at Wembley by Chelsea was a dreadful humiliation, even if that scandalous Chelsea goal should never have been given by the inept referee, Martin Atkinson.

There's even a frankly scandalous musical admission from Jan, right at the death.

Last season Leicester were awarded a scandalous number of penalties and followed this up with one in their first game of the season at Hull.

If its true that Woodward dropped the news on Rio in the dressing room then he's a bigger cunt than I gave him credit for, like him or not to treat a senior player who has been at the club for over decade in that manner is scandalous.

Cardiff manager Neil Warnock described Derby's decision to call off a noon kickoff at 8:30 a.m. that morning as «scandalous» and a «disgrace.»

When men act so scandalous in such a public way, whether hiring a bunch of hookers as the Secret Service agents did or just one — at thousands a pop as former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer did — it makes guys look bad.

You would be surprised at how scandalous my choice to give birth in a hospital was to the mothers in my toddler's playgroup.

At the time it was considered scandalous here in Canada, (22 years ago) which I found a little odd; now young members do it all the time and are supported to do so.

The demonstrators also condemned President John Mahama and the Vice President Kwesi Amissah Arthur for their interference and for Mr Mahama especially, his audacious attempt to sabotage of the judicial process in Ghana by trying to manipulate the outcome of the case with his scandalous comments at his party's headquarters before coming into the country.

«It simply is scandalous that many supply teachers are regarded as second - class professionals and are being denied equal treatment at work.

Question from Nan Wiliams «One hundred years on from the height of the Suffragette movement, it remains nothing short of scandalous that we have such unequal representation of women at the top of business and the top of politics.

At a time when savage NHS cuts are being imposed by Gordon Brown, burning cash on a vanity department is a scandalous waste of time and money.

«It simply is scandalous that many supply teachers are being denied equal treatment at work.

«At a time when there are over 3.7 million children in the UK living in poverty, and families already hit hard by the Coalition Government's economic and social policies, it is scandalous that parents now face an additional, unacceptable tax on their children's learning.»

«Which is why it was scandalous when the Government decided to balance the books at the expense of those on whom the future economic success of this country depends, by scrapping these grants.

And I would look for the same scandalous answers among the people doing the bailing, rather than at the banks.