Sentences with phrase «social respectability»

«We are called to be people of conviction, not conformity; of moral nobility, not social respectability.»

In 19th century America, Christianity was identified with social respectability.

Not exact matches

In our reach for cultural respectability and power, we oldline Protestants have acquiesced in the golden - calf vision of Christendom, becoming warp and woof of the reigning political and social fabric rather than becoming weavers of a new kingdom community.

War, militarism, landlordism, predatory industries, and finance are the demons he named that shape social institutions toward fostering their own respectability and perpetuation at the expense of justice.

Until the rise of liberation theologies, theology was more concerned with having intellectual respectability in the Academy than with forging an alliance with the oppressed or particular political or social attitudes and practices.

By the 1960's, however, this movement had won respectability so thoroughly that it is sometimes regarded by the current crop of social action leaders as simply part of the Establishment.

David Attenborough (for respectability, gravitas and social reports on the human species), Stephen Fry (for obscure and diffi cult to source facts), Armando Iannucci (for how not to run a government department - he's done the research) and John Prescott (to defl ect criticism from anybody else).

Example: will Ricky Lazio ever stop his stupid attack videos and start making the case why he is even remotely qualified to be Governor and exactly how he will help NYS regain fiscal sanity, social justice and basic respectability?

[22] These young people who are very much aware of the fact that they are unable to earn respectability through their current social identity, try to deal with the rejection and exclusion they are subject to by immediately gratifying their desires.

Luckily, the inherently depraved environment of social media cares little for respectability, and this adorable dating game about, well, dads, spread through explosive word of mouth.

I think the work I chose speaks to the current social climate and the demands of respectability politics, and how this «double - binds» African - Americans in the face of prejudices and racial violence.

McKibben, in Washington, D.C.: «The fossil fuel industry has behaved with such recklessness... that at this point they deserve to lose their social license, their veneer of respectability.»

They have behaved with such recklessness that at this point they deserve to lose their social license, their veneer of respectability.

Just as social networking applications like Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn are gaining traction and respectability within the legal community, there's a new question worth considering: Would you pay to use these applications?