Sentences with phrase «scandalous when»

Last, but not least, the Roku Ultra is $ 20 cheaper than the Apple TV, which is positively scandalous when you consider that the former is stronger in almost every category.

In the technical community, it's widely considered scandalous when material we paid for is denied to us on the purported basis of copyright.

It was scandalous when it resulted in a verdict for damages up to $ 3 million.

The current state of affairs looks ever more scandalous when one realizes that the computer - model - generated predictions of dangerous climate consequences have failed the test of time.

The floral construction «The Black Book,» Lawrence Durrell maintains all the savagery and obscenity that made the novel so scandalous when it was first published in 1938.

I have no idea if it shrunk, I grew, or my ideas about hem length have shifted, but it felt positively scandalous when I tried it on and has since been relegated to the consignment pile.

«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.

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In contrast, when the New York Post was looking into a scandalous incident in Denton's love life, Denton, who is gay, called the reporters to fill them in on the details.

When Joseph learned of Mary's extramarital pregnancy, we are told he intended to handle what was potentially a scandalous matter «quietly.»

If God's scandalous relationship with the 12 thugs means anything, then we should expect a variegated spectrum of righteousness and be patient — or repentant — when such sanctification doesn't meet out expectations.

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...

The statement that He makes, that when we minister to these neglected individuals, we in fact minister to Jesus himself is scandalous and mind blowing for those of us who might entertain the notion that making the economically poor and those who are marginalized by society an exaggeration of Scripture's call to prioritize the poor.

Donors are told that when they give they are «helping to counter the scandalous myth that only the religious care about their fellow - humans.»

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.

Let's not go back to the days when divorced women were scandalous.

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.

«It is scandalous that when we have such record levels of success the Coalition is reducing the opportunities for young people to access university to develop the higher level skills the economy needs.

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 is scandalous that there has never been a legal requirement for full consultation with parents, staff, pupils and the community when a school is faced with the prospect of academy conversion and we welcome the Report calling for this.

«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.»

When set aside the expenditures incurred during the floatation of bonds under the NDC government, we notice a wide and unacceptable disparity which can only be the result of massive inflation of costs.We demand an immediate enquiry into this scandalous affair and a detailed explanation from the Finance Minister over how these expenditures were incurred.

The NDC's critics have said that the opposition party should not overlook the scandalous press war that ensued between Ms. Osei on one hand and her deputies on the other, when each directly accused the other of being corrupt or said to have abused their respective offices.

It's scandalous that they should earn millions of pounds for doing nothing when the government introduces its carbon floor price next year.

Last year, when he tried to register his logo, examining attorney Rachel Blue denied the application based on a federal statute that allows such a decision if the logo is «immoral, deceptive or scandalous».

I thought it was something you used when you wanted to send scandalous photos to a person that were going to be automatically deleted a few seconds after viewing.

The actress, who plays Ashley Davenport, a social climbing publicist on the scandalous ABC hit, is always spot - on when it comes to her professional - yet - trendy style.

Brandon Jenner made out with Kim Kardashian once when they were younger, again proving that the Kardashian - Jenners are just a more scandalous and overexposed version of the Brady Bunch.

It sounds scandalous, but before you make wisecracks about about Yagan's «ringing endorsement» of his services, read his explanation: «We were all dating our future wives when we started OkC.

There's a deliciously scandalous film to be made out of Lady Windemer's Fan, and there are a handful of moments when A Good Woman achieves a level of classy and bitingly funny melodrama.

She is a little afraid of Dixon, very afraid of her ex-husband (John Hawkes) and slightly terrified when a man she doesn't know enters her gift shop and makes threatening noises about Mildred's scandalous billboards.

His desire for Olive is briefly thwarted when she demonstrates that she's more interested in snogging his wife than him, but they soon settle into a scandalous threesome and are forced to leave the university.

Valentina (Vega) has the perfect life in New York with the perfect boyfriend (Carnes), but things get complicated when she visits her politically scandalous family in Mexico and she reunites with her former love (Chaparro).

The real reason was, of course, far less scandalous: Foster's rep told People that the injury took place when she fell while skiing a few weeks ago.

The Disaster Artist gets what's funny and weird and creepy about Tommy Wiseau's laugh, even when it's not inexplicably and incongruously deployed in response to learning about the scandalous harlot whose promiscuity landed her in the hospital on Guerrero Street.

Even the initially welcome arrival of a saucy friend, played by Catherine Bailey beneath a permanently arched eyebrow and a twirling fringed parasol, becomes tedious quickly when there's never any let - up in her pert, faux - scandalous observations.

They are married until 1950 when she divorces him to marry Italian director Roberto Rossellini (Stromboli, Journey to Italy) temporarily making Bergman persona non grata in Hollywood for her scandalous adultery 1946 Sue Lyon, Kubrick's Lolita (1962) is born.

As wacky as it all sounds, this seems like an amusing movie about finding romance even when you're older, and not really about the book itself being so scandalous.

When his fictional counterpart writes a few particularly scandalous scenes, and even has his characters discussing the stories of Shariar Mandanipour, the real Mandanipour's delight in his project shines through, even in translation.

But when her path crosses Evan Rhys» again in Theresa Romain's Scandalous Ever After, they tentatively enter each other's lives once more.

When she gets caught up in the hunt to find a scandalous painting, her future and her relationship are suddenly threatened.

For instance, the Prince Regent, who gave his name to the era and later ascended the throne as George IV, initiated his scandalous career at the tender age of 17 when he began an affair with the famous actress, Mary Robinson.

The character studies alone would make this a noteworthy debut, from the portrait of the sensitive, insecure Amir to the multilayered development of his father, Baba, whose sacrifices and scandalous behavior are fully revealed only when Amir returns to Afghanistan and learns the true nature of his relationship to Hassan.

When the Duke Was Wicked, the first book in the Scandalous Gentlemen of St. James series, was no exception.

She recalls an eccentric childhood lived in the shadow of her musical twin, Rory; early marriage to Hugh, a handsome clergyman twice her age; motherhood, which brought her Theo, the son she couldn't love; middle age, when she finally found brief happiness in a scandalous affair with her nephew, Colin.

When his brother pleads for his return, Lucas expects to be the topic of scandalous gossip.

These include the now classic development timeline «when it's done,» scandalous scenes involving intimacy and coffee, as well as other gameplay advances like jumping, crouching and, really, first person shooters in general.

Brandi Chastain became an unlikely feminist icon when she ceremoniously ripped off her jersey after scoring the winning goal in the 1999 World Cup - revealing her sports bra in what would become an unforgettable, yet somehow scandalous, moment.

This, of course, is nothing new of scandalous, as all cultures tend to think of their own as the most important one, but when it comes to unfairly crediting a western artist for something the Chinese have been doing for centuries, the Western - centrism becomes a bit of a problem.

In the»50s, when Abstract Expressionists held their paintings above messy everyday life, Rauschenberg dragged street junk to his studio and incorporated it into «combines» — scandalous - seeming combinations of painting and sculpture.

Still, and although I know this boat sailed a long time ago, I can't help but wonder if the days when such a pleading would have been seen as scandalous rather than helpful, were not better days.»