Sentences with phrase «scorned as»

And a mirror, of course, redirects our gaze back into ourselves — where consciousness might get vertigo at the lip of an internal bellmouth leading down into, well, that - which - is - not - conscious, recently scorned as psychoanalytical make - believe but even more recently resurrected by neuroscience (see, e.g. this debate in the Guardian).

His interest in works frequently scorned as kitsch in art circles is another key aspect of his collection.

When Nunez arrived and described the world as he — a man with vision — saw it, the villagers scorned him as a liar.

Even now his eyes were not dead to their charms, or to the contrast with life in East Germany where beauty was scorned as a bourgeois obsession and you couldn't buy a lemon from one month to the next.

Undercutting of the kind encouraged by massive discounts are a bane, not only for our business, but also for this trade and industry and needs to be ceremoniously discouraged and scorned as unethical business practices.

MILLIONS of babies have been born after in - vitro fertilisation — but the technique was initially scorned as irrelevant and its inventors dismissed as publicity - hungry.

Leibniz's idea was roundly scorned as unscientific wishful thinking, most notably by French author Voltaire in his magnum opus, Candide.

As scorned as iceberg is, it adds that counterpoint of crunch to the egg.

Vast treasures have been spent by a bankrupt United States on the Strategic Defense Initiative, an adolescent fantasy of total protection that scores of serious scientists have scorned as both dangerous and meretricious.

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

The Romantic movement's reverence for «the Inner Light» he scorned as the «most untrustworthy and deceitful guide that ever offered itself to wandering humanity.»

One of Buffett's most controversial bets — a bubble - era wager on the long - term value of stock market indexes, using tools he once scorned as «weapons of financial mass destruction» — started to pay off in the fourth quarter.

Beard and moustache growth was rampant, especially in India where bare faces were scorned as being juvenile and un-manly, as well as in Arab countries where moustaches and beards were likewise associated with power.

Do you not see that the peace which you no longer dare to hope for (when you do not actually scorn it as a myth) is possible and indeed certain, provided you will grasp what the word «peace» means and what it requires of you?

In other news, our team seems to be rounding nicely into form, with a productive off - season and several new additions already settling in, there seems to be a renewed sense of confidence in the air... our well - oiled machine has conducted business again early this year, so we can just sit back, kick our feet up and watch all those other suckers scramble to make panic moves in the 11th hour... of course, we need to tie up a few loose ends but our team of savvy negotiators, under the tutelage of our faithful leader, will perform their usual magic with ample time to spare... I have to laugh when I look around the soccer world and see all those teams look upon us with envy and scorn as they struggle to mimic our seemingly infallible business model... thank goodness the powers that be had the foresight and fortitude to resist the temptations of the modern football era... instead of listening to all the experts and simply taking the easy way out by making the necessary improvements on the field and in the front office, we chose the path never traveled... we are truly pioneers in our field... sometimes you just have to have faith in the people that have always conducted themselves in a respectful and honest fashion... most fans aren't so fortunate, they will never know what it's like to follow a team that treats everyone in and around the club as if they were an extended member of the family... all for one I say... so when you wake up this morning, please try not to gloat when you see rival fans pacing back and forth waiting for their respective teams to pull the usual panic buys, just say nothing and be thankful that it isn't you... like I've always said, this is why you stay the course... this is when the real benefits of having someone in charge for over 2 decades really pays off... have a great day fellow Gunners

Johnson had previously ridiculed Trump and condemned him as unfit for office; characteristically he abandoned this principled scorn as soon as its object won power.

When Dr. Nduom went for Miss Eva Lokko for Election 2012, we laughed him to scorn as a politically misguided «busy - body» because at the time, Miss Lokko had become so objectionable as a public figure that no serious politician would associate with to prevail over voters.

It is a deft contrast to the Remainers» warnings of the perils and uncertainties intrinsic to Brexit — a strategy the Leave campaigners scorn as «Project Fear».

Constantly sniffing snuff and surreptitiously boozing, her Masha is as fiercely defiant as she is miserable, lending a palpable tension to her scenes with Medvedenko (Michael Zegen), the schoolteacher whose love she scorns as she pines for Konstantin.

No Child Left Behind (NCLB) is among the most lamented education policies in recent memory, and few of NCLB's provisions received as much scorn as its singular focus on grade - level proficiency as the sole measure of school performance.

The witnesses testifying claimed to have suffered public scorn as a result of being labelled «hate - mongers».

Not exact matches

As I've learned trying to woo scorned lovers, the bouquet must be twice as big the second time arounAs I've learned trying to woo scorned lovers, the bouquet must be twice as big the second time arounas big the second time around.

Winkler scorns writerly characterizations as offering «subjective judgments we shouldn't make.»

Balenciaga issued a first apology on Thursday, but it did not identify the customers to whom it offered the apology as Chinese, prompting scorn among some Chinese social media users.

CARACAS Venezuela on Thursday scorned a $ 2.04 billion award to ConocoPhillips over a decade - old nationalization as the U.S. oil producer filed suit in a federal court to enforce the decision.

Mexico's ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party, facing voter scorn over corruption, tepid economic growth and rising violence, loosened its rules earlier this month to allow it to form coalitions and let a non-party member run as its candidate in 2018 presidential elections.

Within weeks of the deal, Valeant went from investor idol to pariah as its business model of buying older drugs and raising the prices attracted international scorn.

But while WFC may be the object of scorn, its operations continue pretty much as before.

I allow the initial claims might not be as crazy as they might initially sound and believe that the claims that match between both human and alien warrent further investigation b. your reaction is that of scorn.

Anyway, come today or tomorrow we will all meet our maker and as a Christian I welcome the scorn and ridicule of secularist because I believe I will be rewarded ten fold for standing for my god.

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.

Even decisions that as a formal matter have little to do with religion take on a different coloration when Stevens» apparent scorn for some religions is factored in.

This was the only commodity Frost and Eliot were capable of producing: the modernist phenomenon as product, mass culture's ultimate revenge on those who would scorn it.»

When soap was first used during the Roman Empire, it was thought of as effeminate and scorned by real men.

As long as there are religions they will scorn the non-believerAs long as there are religions they will scorn the non-believeras there are religions they will scorn the non-believers.

In fact, Lincoln had difficulty with the aristocratic Jefferson on many accounts, and in private he not only scorned Jefferson's views of the ideal yeoman farmer but also condemned Jefferson's hypocrisy regarding slaves, a hypocrisy that implied Jefferson's use of the word equality in the Declaration need not be taken literally as applying to all men.

Nietzsche's scorn for «modern ideas» made a profound impression on his admirers: «This book [Beyond Good and Evil],» he said, «is a criticism of modernity, embracing the modern sciences, arts, even politics, together with certain indications as to a type that would be the reverse of modern man, for as little like him as possible: a noble, yea - saying man.»

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?

The aesthetic of written literature scorns such involuntary factors as «mistakes».

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.»

It is certainly not the saying of the prophet, and Christians must not take it as a model, but it is the kind of argument the ordinary man can address to the ordinary man, and we must be on guard against scorning it (even if we are not to overrate it either).

If, as a disciple of Jesus Christ, you stand up under poverty, and hunger, and weeping and public scorn, congratulations, you are a great success.

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

For example, it is only too easy to imagine Christian living as a soft, meek - and - mild, head - in - the - clouds avoidance of reality, and therefore to pour scorn upon it.

I am disappointed in my generational peers who look back upon «the»60s» with patronizing scorn, as if we ought to be a little embarrassed for having dreamed those dreams.

The Dead despise & scorn thee & cast thee out as accursed, Seeing the Lamb of God in thy gardens & thy palaces Where they desire to place the Abomination of Desolation.»

I've learned that no scorn is quite as nasty as that of an insecure, arrogant «Christian» (especially a leader) when you don't match up with their expectations of you....

Is the minister keeping up with the developing technical means, or does he scorn all considerations of technique as unnatural?

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).