The shamelessness of climate change deniers still surprises me sometimes, even after all these years of lying, disingenuousness, and misdirection.
With all
the shamelessness of a Goldman Sachser trading in his middle - aged wife for a hot, pouting twentysomething called Ivanka, the green movement is ditching «Climate Change».
And, as evidence of the utter intellectual
shamelessness of delusionism, you can't beat the campaign against wind power, driven by the kinds of absurd claims of risk that would be mocked, mercilessly and deservedly, if they came from the mainstream environmental movement.
That sense of familiarity, the forced imitation,
the shamelessness of the homage, never lets up.
First,
the shamelessness of it is astonishing.
After suggesting changes to what she saw that will amp up the saccharine
shamelessness of the film within the film, an outraged director confronts her: «My characters are real — movies can be real, you know.
Sir Ian added: «I understand that politics is the art of the possible but the complete
shamelessness of that comment was pretty staggering.»
The shamelessness of Mayor De Blasio and his wife in foregrounding their children to score points is stunning.
The bald - faced
shamelessness of it just makes my jaw drop!
The horrific denouement of an ideology that required breaching the boundary of shame was
the shamelessness of death camps where human beings were robbed of dignity, stripped of privacy, deprived, therefore, of an elemental freedom of the body in life and of the respect we accord the bodies of the dead after life is no more.
Not exact matches
Reflecting on Bonhoeffer in the theological journal dialog, Jean Bethke Elshtain addresses the aesthetic under the rubric
of shame: «One
of the reasons Dietrich Bonhoeffer was so repulsed by Nazism was precisely because
of its aberrant
shamelessness.
He deepens this insistency in the Ethics and ties his argument explicitly to the sin
of political or public overcoming that requires a norm
of shamelessness in order for it to do its dirty work, dirty no more, or so is the claim, because the ruthless deed - doers know no evil.
Scenes
of starved, naked bodies, piles and piles being shoved by bulldozers into lime pits, is a nigh inexpressible instance
of shamelessness, with the dead reduced to anonymous carcasses.»
• In the Talmud, Rabbi Eliezer the Great predicts that «as the footsteps
of the messiah approach,
shamelessness will spread,» and he quotes Micah chapter seven: «son spurning father, daughter rising up against mother, daughter - in - law against mother - in - law — a man's own household his enemies.»
Obama has become one
of our very worst presidents, particularly in his unprecedented degree
of mendacity - employment and his sickening
shamelessness about it, a disgrace related to his exacerbating his party's habit
of reality - denial about fiscal, labor, and other economy - shaping policies.
(2:25) This lack
of shame, too, was natural, as
shamelessness is with all the other animals.
That which is the not being ashamed where one should be ashamed, the not being ashamed
of acquiring sinful and immoral qualities, that is said to be
shamelessness.
A person who is possessed
of this
shamelessness is said to be a shameless person.54
Sometimes we get pissed off, other times we shrug in apathy and still other times the power games»
shamelessness and outrages makes us laugh, in a sardonic kind
of way.
Some
of the amusement is a byproduct
of shamelessness.
It takes a special kind
of shamelessness to do both, and Into the Storm has that in spades.
Theatrical and confrontational, New Zealand's bad boys
of rock, Head Like a Hole reform with belligerence, vulnerability and
shamelessness, amidst their ongoing battles
of past addictions and sabotaged dreams, in their continuing quest for glory and relevance.
It's as manipulative as it is dishonest, but unlike many other far lesser films worthy
of the same description, all this flick's
shamelessness is on purpose.
Smith has invited his friends (and wife and toddler) to do a self - consciously stupid movie, elevating his already obscene dedication to nepotism to new levels
of shamelessness.
Because
of this, Dexter and Precious / Shadowboxer auteur Lee Daniels sounded like a match made in Hell to me, but the blunt force
of Daniels's
shamelessness proves strangely compatible with Dexter's writing in The Paperboy, based on the latter's 1995 best - seller.
Still, it ranks next to Power Strike II and Ninja Gaiden as one
of the best later SMS releases — like these, it only received a retail release in PAL territories, with limited release in North America — and it's worth checking out despite its
shamelessness.
How is satire even possible in the age
of Tr * mp, when his words and deeds, in their
shamelessness, parody themselves?
Four years later a writer for The New York Times would assert that «[Koons] is as shameless as this decade's model
of shamelessness, Julian Schnabel.»
With characteristic
shamelessness, the mendacious Dr. S. Fred Singer and two
of his three co-authors are flagrantly misrepresenting a new article that they have published in the International Journal
of Climatology.