Sentences with phrase «sense of outrage at»

In an earlier job, I had edited an edition of the VCOSS magazine Insight on Crime and Justice issues, with a growing sense of outrage at the structural inequities and injustices at work in our system, particularly for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.

Some of his funniest stories are those that convey his sense of outrage at the various idiocies of the AAU.

As more and more interested Catholics did so, there was a sense of outrage at what was missing, changed or simply invented.

What they have in common is a sense of outrage at Goldhagen's arrogance, self - righteousness, and exploitation of popular stereotypes.

My blog post a year ago called it A Very Political Budget: the document sought to institutionalize Harper's sense of outrage at Barack Obama's decision to delay approval of the Keystone XL pipeline project.

Not exact matches

Yet any time you are outraged at an insensitive, harsh remark, you are accused of having no sense of humor,» the post says.

Until its moral capital had completely vanished, it traded on a sense of moral outrage at the injustices of the world, and it proposed a revolution to create a better one.

The sense of outrage that caused the Christians of Europe to hang their priests during the black plagues (since they could not kill God, at least they could kill his representatives) has touched us all as we view the suffering of the innocent.

We can surely read off from the Gospels something of the cost of this, something indeed of the uncertainty that hemmed his choice; the Outrage of the Pharisees, the seeming desertion at the last of the common people who had heard him gladly and whom in a sense he left to their fate in the coming sack of their city and desolation of their land.

There is at least one section (IV) which deals with contracts — six different kinds — and various kinds of outrages, that is to say it is in some senses a book of law.

I'm not here to protest against protest - as the Daily Mail will tell you, I'm an arch whinging leftie feminist, placard ever at the ready, sense of outrage finely honed.

When questioned why as a Republican he would engage in «environmental activism», he responded with a sense of outrage, saying that it is not just a Democratic issue and noting that a Republican president created the EPA (that would be Richard Nixon, but without noting, well, you can guess at all that he didn't note).

And the execution of these ideas, at least at first glance, appears tp be very similar, with plenty of action scenes set to popular music and our villain having a misplaced sense of ambition and moral outrage.

Until it gets too obvious about itself (somewhere around the halfway mark (like an addict nursing a jones, as it happens)-RRB-, that sense of futile outrage at the fruitlessness of trying to affect change in a world that has never been more informed yet remains incapable of avoiding (recent) history's harshest lessons lends a nice feeling of indignity to what is already a pretty fair genre inversion.

Whether they work inside or outside a school system, they bring a passion and sense of outrage that come from having spent at least two years learning about the challenges that low - income students and schools face.

As I dug deeper I was struck by the sense of outrage and loss this painting aroused in so many people: The family of Lea Bondi, determined to reclaim the stolen portrait she had failed to recover in her lifetime; the Manhattan District Attorney who sent shock waves through the international art world and enraged many of New York's most prominent cultural organizations when he issued a subpoena and launched a criminal investigation following the surprise resurfacing of Portrait of Wally; the New York art dealer who tipped off a reporter about the painting during the opening of the Schiele exhibition at MoMA; the Senior Special Agent at the Department of Homeland Security who vowed not to retire until the fight was over; the art theft investigator who unearthed the post-war subterfuge and confusion that ultimately landed the painting in the hands of a young, obsessed Schiele collector; the museum official who testified before Congress that the seizure of Portrait of Wally could have a crippling effect on the ability of American museums to borrow works of art; the Assistant United States Attorney who took the case to the eve of trial; and the legendary Schiele collector who bartered for Portrait of Wally in the early 1950s and fought to the end of his life to bring it home to Vienna.

To my taste, the booth is too subdued and lacked a similar sense of urgency, outrage and indignation that was expressed by (European) journalists and cartoonists commenting on the events at the time.

I remember the same sense of outrage the first time I saw Frank Stella's black paintings and to a lesser extent the first show I saw of Warhol's at the Stable Gallery.

Whether you're looking for art to reflect a sense of outrage and despair or to deliver flashes of joy, Arthur Jafa's momentous video installation «Love Is the Message, the Message Is Death,» at Gavin Brown's Enterprise, is required viewing.

Others, like some dude named Alex Wilhelm at The Next Web, have «disliked» the idea with less sense of outrage.