Sentences with phrase «scorn at»

Men don't have very high regards for a woman driver and they generally scorn at women drivers.

(This bit of trivia will earn you free beer or free scorn at the bar).

The same can't quite be said of the British realist Ken Loach, who won the Palme in 2006 for «The Wind That Shakes the Barley,» but whose films since — «Looking for Eric,» «Route Irish,» «The Angels» Share,» «Jimmy's Hall» — have been received at Cannes with moderate indulgence at best, outright scorn at worst.

«But I believe that as (the evidence) becomes increasingly compelling, as the public continues to understand that climate change is already unfolding... we will look back with scorn at those who denied climate change.»

It highlighted the good, threw scorn at critics and claimed we didn't know the whole story.

The padded grey cages are increasingly scorned at start - ups and in design circles for a reason - they can actually make employees less productive.

The Capital One Cup is scorned at by most top Premier sides and Arsenal have for years used young inexperienced players.

I scorned at journalists and pundits at the beginning of the season when they pointed this out, but it's true.

Youth in Hasköy who witness their parents being crushed in the same cycle of poverty for years, know that no good comes from waiting, from being patient in this world where poverty is scorned at.

The section of the exhibit devoted to videotapes includes sociologically inclined footage that documents and reveals aspects of our domestic life that are scorned at or dealt with superficially on commercial TV; also more technologically oriented videos focused on the research and manipulation of the medium's electronic complexities and other «post-minimal» footage that studies or transmits the artists» most relevant aesthetic concerns.

My sexuality, sexual voice, and sexual choices were being openly scorned at, criticized, judged, and put down because of my gender and my choices.

Not exact matches

Meeting Macron in the Oval Office, Trump heaped scorn on the 2015 nuclear accord negotiated by his predecessor, former president Barack Obama, and aimed at stopping Iran from getting a nuclear weapon.

On the other hand, organizations and individual pundits, most recently JP Morgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon, have faced scorn and ridicule from the online blockchain commentariat over remarks that downplay the technology's anticipated impact on the world at large.

The social media scorn was a reaction to a particularly tone - deaf column that Bustle founder and consummate bro Bryan Goldberg had written on the tech site PandoDaily, announcing that he had raised $ 6.5 million to start a website aimed at millennial women.

Gerecht was essentially with (see his 2012 essay «Living with Islam») certain voices in the Obama State Dept., or among the academic supporters of the Revolution at a site like The Arabist, which for a time held that the Revolution presented a chance to split the broad Islamic constituency represented by the Brotherhood, to separate the Brothers ready to meet democratic secularists half - way, from the rest, and to let the latter earn the scorn of the populace through their own policies, actions, etc..

Wow.Mr.Limbaugh's belated «apology «aside, I find myself stunned at the level of vitriol, rudeness, and sheer hatred we seem determined to spew at each across the web nowadays; its advent has obviously unleashed some deeply - buried, long - simmering resevoirs of hate, scorn, and opprobium that has finally boiled over among many of us.If we spent even a third of that energy seeking solutions to righting the badly - listing ship - of - state called America... Well.The politicians aren't going to do it, fellow citizens.As clever as we think we are venting over folly and nonsense on these websites, we had better get busy getting our nation's affairs in order, or we'll become the laughingstock of the world, with tiny,no - name third world countries thumbing their noses at us and telling us to «Get lost, America, you silly, Hollywood has - been.

They laugh at Christians with scorn for our «hope» and «faith» and talk about how no one needs a savior because we're all basically good... also based on no evidence.

Have you and your church, or any of the other christians heaping scorn upon the WBC in this blog, issued a public statement condemning your fellow christians at WBC for their behaviour, as many christians have demanded that muslims do when members of their tribe behave contrary to the declared principles of their myths and your expectations?

At least they live by their convictions — you use the science that suits you and pour scorn on the rest.

I learned this not from a class in feminist studies, but from Jesus — who was brought into the world by a woman whose obedience changed everything; who revealed his identity to a scorned woman at a well; who defended Mary of Bethany as his true disciple, even though women were prohibited from studying under rabbis at the time; who obeyed his mother; who refused to condemn the woman caught in adultery to death; who looked to women for financial and moral support, even after the male disciples abandoned him; who said of the woman who anointed his feet with perfume that «wherever this gospel is preached throughout the world, what she has done will also be told, in memory of her»; who bantered with a Syrophoenician woman, talked theology with a Samaritan woman, and healed a bleeding woman; who appeared first before women after his resurrection, despite the fact that their culture deemed them unreliable witnesses; who charged Mary Magdalene with the great responsibility of announcing the start of a new creation, of becoming the Apostle to the Apostles.

Although Martin Scorsese's film adaptation of this novel in the 1980s drew the full brunt of scorn from the evangelical community, who were scandalized at the idea that Jesus was actually tempted, the basic story is a stunningly - written and imaginative exploration of the idea of that Jesus was «tempted in every way, just as we are — yet he did not sin.»

The Romans tortured, mocked, scorned and laughed at Jesus all the way to his hanging on the cross.

They speak of me with scorn, calling me beggar - woman or witch or harlot; but their words are at variance with life, and the pharisees who condemn me, waste away in the outlook to which they confine themselves; they die of inanition and their disciples desert them because I am the essence of all that is tangible, and men can not do without me.

This polemical analysis was in Latin because Dante knew that to beat those who exalted Latin, and scorned all who wrote in the «vulgar» Italian, he had to join them — at least when composing a work on such a subject.

And beyond moral indignation at liturgical substitutes for goodness, the scorn which some prophetic passages pour on animal sacrifices suggests intellectual contempt as well.

Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy set before him endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

They are looked at with more scorn and distrust than most groups: http://epiphenom.fieldofscience.com/2011/11/atheists-and-rapists-you-just-cant.html

At a minimum, such a prayer calls for something other than scorn for political leaders.

I looked at him with scorn and with a sense of superiority, thinking how glad I was not to be like him.

«Tell your son,» Changez booms at Nasreen, «that if he went abroad to learn contempt for his own kind, then his own kind can feel nothing but scorn for him.»

His parables frequently end with a «punch line» that presents a challenge to conventional expectation: the scorned Samaritan is the «good» one who proves neighbor to the victim on the Jericho Road; those who come to work late at the harvest are provided the same reward as those who toiled all day; the wayward prodigal son is the one who is feasted; the prayer of a repentant sinner is more acceptable to God than that of a righteous Pharisee.9 Shorter sayings make the same point: A camel could pass through a needle's eye more easily than a person of great wealth can enter into God's inbreaking realm (Mt 19:24).

They refuse, reject and scorn God, then turn around and very arrogantly DEMAND an explanation from God whom they hate, while at the same time deny His existence.

Shored up by relief at having successfully reduced proportional body fat, they remain haunted by dread that the pounds, the scorn and the self - hating misery may surge back at any time.

We laugh and scorn these moronic decisions now, but at the time they seemed «right» and «correct» to us.

Bloom's book (subtitled How Higher Education Has Failed Democracy and Impoverished the Souls of Today's Students) is an attention - grabber, mainly because the author, who now teaches philosophy and political science at the University of Chicago, is a polemicist with an obvious scorn for understatement.

Worry, rather, that parents scorned as nobodies may come to scorn themselves; that is the point at which real social trouble begins.

People truly at peace with their beliefs don't feel the need to gain validation from others through criticizing them or scorning them not do they feel the need to bark and howl from the highest tower to be heard.

«At the best the Founding Fathers only passively believed in organized Christianity and at worst they scorned and ridiculed it.&raquAt the best the Founding Fathers only passively believed in organized Christianity and at worst they scorned and ridiculed it.&raquat worst they scorned and ridiculed it.»

We need to remember this when we celebrate our faith as Catholics, even if at times we meet scorn and derision like our divine Master.

Every new document that comes to light after decades revives the undignified lamentations, the hatred and scorn, instead of allowing the war at its end to be buried, at least morally.»

Even now, more than ten years later, I remain awed by their valiant struggle, mounted at great personal cost: drained finances, lost privacy, media scorn, impugned motives, death threats — and eventually Bob's death, which the family believes was caused by the stress of watching helplessly as his daughter died by court order.

A little more than a year later, I remembered those people and their silent tears as I wandered round a Moscow at last liberated from the Communist tyranny that had demanded the allegiance of everyone since 1917, a Moscow from which the tanks, defeated mainly by popular scorn for a rotten, drunken, washed - up junta of secret policemen and hacks, had withdrawn.

With the Sermon on the Mount we already find ourselves on a very high level at which charity excels justice and the heavenly kingdom scorns the earthly realm.

A religious focus on law causes those who obey the law to look down their noses with scorn and division at those who do not obey it.

In 2012 the lines between the sacred and the profane will get even more blurry: Scientists will religiously maintain their search for the elusive God particle (they won't find it); evangelical sports superhero and Denver Bronco quarterback Tim Tebow will continue to be both an inspiration to the faithful and an object of scorn to skeptics (he will be watching, not playing in, the Super Bowl); at least one well - known religious leader or leading religious politician will be brought down by a sex scandal (let's hope all our leaders have learned a lesson from former Rep. Anthony Weiner and stay away from sexting); and the «nones» - those who don't identify with one religion - will grow even more numerous and find religious meanings in unexpected places (what TV show will become this season's «Lost»?)

The cultured scorn of a Celsus and the coarse ribaldry of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries are at one in this.

Even Luther poured scorn on such literalism: «Oh, that heaven of the charlatans, with its golden stool and Christ sitting at the Father's side vested in a choir cope and a golden crown, as the painters love to portray him.»

But in very substantial degree, the dismantling of the social - welfare system undertaken by the Reagan administration with the blessing of fundamentalist preachers and their followers reflects the atrophy of the ethical conscience and the growth of self - centeredness, the hubris of the successful and their scorn for those less adept at «making it.»

But of course, they were raised by a stay - at - home mom, and that «choice» deserves America's scorn.

Exactly the sort of domestic arrangements sneered at and scorned by Bachofen's contemporaries, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels.