Sentences with phrase «so scandalous»

The floral construction «The Black Book,» Lawrence Durrell maintains all the savagery and obscenity that made the novel so scandalous when it was first published in 1938.

What if the offers were so spicy, so naughty, so scandalous that you wouldn't even want to tell your best friend?

As wacky as it all sounds, this seems like an amusing movie about finding romance even when you're older, and not really about the book itself being so scandalous.

This remake strips away everything that made the 1981 Brooke Shields romance so scandalous.

This story was so scandalous and notorious that there are now plans of making a movie out of it, and Kristen Stewart might play Savannah Knoop.

So to wear something that is at least 3 ″ above my knee feels so scandalous, but I love it!

When men act so scandalous in such a public way, whether hiring a bunch of hookers as the Secret Service agents did or just one — at thousands a pop as former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer did — it makes guys look bad.

Others were impatient because they believed themselves allied with redemptive powers and possibilities whose adequacy was threatened by this identification of hope with so scandalous a historical particularity.

In previous generations, the divorced person was almost nonexistent, so scandalous was divorce in that era, and the widowed person was thus the only remaining single adult.

Not exact matches

I love what you write and share even if sounds so very scandalous.

So let's not invest swearing with an out - and - out scandalous status that it doesn't necessarily deserve.

First, Driscoll's so - called «fall» (from the Acts 29 p.o.v.) seems mainly to involve scandalous improprieties re: funds and books and tone and so on, but the theology that undergirds the spiritual abuse doesn't come under fire since Acts 29 not only doesn't see it as a problem, but generally holds to it as well.

I see in Jesus a God of scandalous grace, who loves evildoers so much he died for them — for us.

Of course, my own is also there, along with the others» corresponding husbands, so it's hardly as scandalous as it could sound.

So the community I pastor continues to grow more and more diverse and as a result scandalous in many ways.

We agree about this, and also, in principle at least, that demythologizing throws into sharper relief the paradoxical or scandalous character of its claims, so that they become as clear for modern man as they were in apostolic times.

We are so used to reading the Bible as a «Holy Book» that we often fail to see how humorous and delightful it can be... even, at times, scandalous and bawdy.

Not only did we lose one of the great warriors in the battle between the culture of life and the culture of death, but we also lost a true healer: a man who worked so hard to bridge the scandalous five - hundred - year - old chasm in the Church.

The End of the Affair was a scandalous success, so much so that some Catholic wags complained that it gave the impression Christ had said: «If you love me, break my commandments.»

So I want to take what for moderns is the most scandalous of these scandalous laws as our hard case — those related to sexual sins — and press Jesus on his claim that these and other laws in Moses reveal him and his grace, mercy, forgiveness, and love (Lk 24:27, 44, cf., John 5:46).

Perhaps some of those within the Church may delight in such scandalous disregard for the claims of truth; perhaps some who are in retreat from the world may come to embrace a Christianity so presented.

It was not just that he felt it all to be unseemly or even scandalous in the way that Erasmus and so many people of all classes did; he certainly felt that, but he was more deeply scandalised and hurt in his own inner being; his own nature was in some sort under attack.

What we do see, however, is that certain groups try to limit, restrict, or modify grace so that it is not as shocking or scandalous as it first appears.

JR is all about the dollar, so much so that instead of showcasing some kind of shame, humility, sorrow for his scandalous ways.

We wont win the PL this season and that in itself is scandalous, it could and should have been so much better.

At the time it was considered scandalous here in Canada, (22 years ago) which I found a little odd; now young members do it all the time and are supported to do so.

She is to highlight the fact that Theresa May's target, and the hostile environment measures put in place that have so far failed to achieve it, are «leading to the scandalous situation where we are turning away doctors, even though there is a severe shortage of trained personnel in the NHS».

«Given the dire state of the economy, it is nothing short of scandalous that so few projects funded by the Regional Growth Fund have actually got off the ground.

«It's scandalous and shameful that so many young people across the country are missing out on the care they urgently need.

You can make the neckline a bit more scandalous if you so choose, but that isn't exactly my cup of tea:).

However, despite the fact that 50 years or so had passed, they were still not thought to be fashionable, and were instead regarded as much too scandalous.

So does that make this Watergate Salad dessert scandalous?

I loved my look with the sexy red lip and scandalous outfit (so different from my everyday look, but loved every second).

But this pillow was SO easy to make, it's almost scandalous.

This dress hugs the body and gives the illusion of sheerness, so it's alluring, not scandalous.

It's not so short that it's scandalous, but it most certainly shows off the legs.

Before you @ me, please note that the dress is lined to the knee, so the devoré overlay does not actually reveal anything scandalous unless you are a time - travelling Victorian, in which case — welcome to the 21st century, but also, why are you wasting time reading this blog?

It's made of a beautiful, thick merino wool so there's barely any show through and it's nice a long so there's no worries about things getting scandalous.

Jason gets a taste of the scandalous lifestyles of the Hollywood upper crust while dealing with his growing romantic feelings for Lisa who just so happens to be dating TV hunk Hayden Field (Brian Hallisey).

If you're a PS4 owner, of course, all of this will seem new and kind of scandalous, so I can see why it may appeal to some people, but for Vita owners hoping that the previous Danganronpa game marked a new direction for the series, Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony will represent a bit of a step back to the safe and familiar (to the extent, obviously, that Danganronpa could ever be described as safe).

Between Grant's actual headshots in the background and jabs at the scandalous celebrities (especially bits targeting at the acting job), the role is so meta that one can ironically expect a career resurrection for him.

So, the couple's scandalous liaison was met with resistance both in England and back of Africa.

This rueful truth offered from a Boston lawyer to a Boston journalist linger over Spotlight, Thomas McCarthy's hot - button fact - based drama that's ostensibly a lousy - with - heroes story of bringing to light the Catholic Church's scandalous cover - up and protection of child - abusing priests, but more broadly an indictment of so many willing to look the other way.

Plans for a proper sequel were reportedly axed in the aftermath of Kristen Stewart's scandalous affair with director Rupert Sanders, so Universal forged ahead with a Huntsman - centric film instead, relegating Snow White to a mere footnote.

As five young women of a quaint English village delve into the new and scandalous novel Pride and Prejudice, it sparks some not so lady - like desires in rebellious and clever book club member Justina Penny.

History has never been so hot!A Scandalous Liaison by Elizabeth RollsViscount St. Austell has never forgotten the illicit night he shared with Loveday Trehearne.

I'm up to the part where she has just decided to stock Nabokov's Lolita, the much - banned, most scandalous book of the year — and so far the reception is profitable, but not happy.

So what were the most scandalous stories of 2015?

Anthony is a meteorologist who blew the lid on the scandalous placement of official U.S. government thermometers — even movement to — asphalt pads, Arizona parking lots, next to hot air vents, above barbecue grills, and so on with the convenient result of a warming bias.

But this was scandalous, so of course they corrected it.