Sentences with phrase «side of the angels»

All marketers have an eternal duty to monitor the effect we're having as carefully as we do our results and to make sure we stay firmly on the side of the angels.
From Big Bang to Big Mystery: Human Origins in the Light of Creation and Evolution by Brendan Purcell New City Press, 370 pages, $ 34.95 Benjamin Disraeli famously asked whether man is «an ape or an angel» and answered that he himself stood «on the side of the angels
«The choices Robespierre favored were of course on the side of the angels, so his opponents could be demonized.»
The arguments against abortion can sound very high - minded, and the people who present them clearly think of themselves as on the side of the angels, and yet, confronted by the wretchedness that comes from the success of their efforts, like the priest in the parable they pass by on the other side...
Thus we can say that Marx was, by his sense of injustice found in the society, on the side of the angels.
I knew that I was right, smarter than these racists, and certainly on the side of the angels.
The expression «for Christ's sake» assumes that I am on the side of the angels, and unless you act out my will, you must be doing wrong.
We should be clear, however, that the police, like many of us, often think like men of the apocalypse, assuming they are on the side of the angels against the forces of evil.
Unfortunately for him, on this matter, he is on the side of the angels.
They can not be aesthetically successful without demonstrating the possibility of achieving an order that will stand fast against all threats of peripety, so that in literature at its toughest best the demon of nonlinearity ends up on the side of the angels long before he troubles the world of nuclear physics.
And yet it might be argued that in many ways «liberalism» and «modernism» were more on the «side of the angels» than the reaction has been or is.
Having acknowledged all of this — and putting ourselves on the side of the angels, advocating the cause of the poor, plunging ourselves as wholeheartedly as any sated hedonists can into the cause of human liberation — we should also acknowledge that the best we can ever hope to accomplish is the amelioration of the carnage of existence.
I am on the side of the angels
Jan 04,2016... Club Owner Gene Autry has always been on the side of the Angels.
Club Owner Gene Autry has always been on the side of the Angels.
The last time I did this presentation this past fall, I was happily surprised to realize that in 8 years, we have come more than 3/4 of the way towards the side of the angels, and that the flames of hell are far, far behind us.
And of course the story originally ran in the Times Magazine and has been covered on PBS's News Hour, so bloggers aren't alone in being on the side of the angels.
«You're either on the side of the angels, or you're a bum,» Mr. Koch said with customary bluntness, the Buffalo wind muffling his words.
If we're on the side of the angels on this one, and regardless of whether you're pro or anti the Leveson proposals, we should recognise that there's a lot more to it than simply that.
Mann is a force of nature, a politician either so contrary or so firmly on the side of the angels — take your pick — that he is almost entirely solitary.
There is a sense that Labour think they are on the side of the angels.
And as Gould's errors show, believing you are on the side of the angels makes it difficult to recognize your own preconceptions.
«He was a tireless combatant against racism in any form, and if he was guilty of the kind of unconscious bias in science that he warned against, at least his bias was on the side of the angels
It's all very earnest and high - minded, but «E-Team» thankfully dispenses with self - righteousness and portrays Neistat, Solvang and their colleagues — weapons expert Peter Bouckaert and Berlin - based Fred Abrahams — not as do - gooders, but as glamorous, sophisticated cosmopolitans who also are on the side of the angels.
Having already reformed before he was convicted, he goes the rest of the way and decides to spend what time he's been given, and use the skills he still has as a gunman and soldier of fortune, on the side of the angels, helping people who need it.
Loki was one of the breakout characters of Phase One of the MCU, a villain so popular and well - realized that his turn to the side of the angels was all but promised by the end of Avengers.
She is notably more sympathetic; though she is clearly a much nicer person than her boyfriend, she too is not always on the side of the angels.
Under Wozniak's command, Harlee and a handful of other detectives advance their interpretation of justice (and line their pockets) through a variety of off - the - book means, convinced by their lieutenant that they're on the side of angels.
On the side of the angels is holy - fool hero Leslie Zevo (Robin Williams).
But just when you think he might for once be on the side of the angels, he crosses a line so intrusive and icky that you can't help but recoil.
Mark Ruffalo again bursts out of the screen as the twitchy, dog - with - a-bone Michael Rezendes, especially in his scenes with a genius Stanley Tucci, playing the harried, brusque DA who has been alone on the side of the angels so long in this devil's game that his humanism looks more like misanthropy.
This time his oddball Teutonic bounty hunter is on the side of the angels, assisting Jamie Foxx's sharpshooting freed slave on his Wagnerian revenge quest to free his wife Broomhilde from the clutches of Leonardo DiCaprio's satanic Mississippi landowner.
She also insisted that her character stays on the side of the angels throughout the film.
Thankfully, there are those on the side of the angels: Solverson is a kind - but - firm force for good as she debunks Nygaard's hooey, aided by her nice - but - dim policeman sidekick Gus Grimly.
This is both because of the virtues of localism and civil society and because the federal government is by no means always on the side of the angels when it comes to fairness — remember the Fugitive Slave Act, Dred Scott, Plessy, the WWII - era internment of Americans of Japanese descent, race - based redlining.
[This is why journalists and media types must also keep themselves from being in the position of either glorified stenographers or verbal arms dealers in these situations; there is rarely a side of the angels to be had.]
So if reformers are on the side of the angels, at least in our own minds, who gets cast as the devil?
I, my lord, am on the side of the angels.
Since the day he learned he was nothing more than pawn he and his brothers had been seeking a way to betray hell and fight on the side of the angels.
There are hosts of literary types out there, people who regard themselves as being on the side of the angels, who happily and repeatedly dip their hands into authors» pockets.In exchanges I'm privy to these days, there seems to be less «We can all publish now!»
Meaning that these five idealistic teenagers who firmly believe they are on the side of the angels in trying to save the world will have to come to terms with the fact that they grow up to be the semi-psychotic angst - ridden spastics who started Avengers Vs. X-Men.
In this finely written account, he comes down (as we know he will) on the side of the angels
You and Scalzi are right, of course, even if you are on the side of angels, suing them just compounds the aggrevation.
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