Sentences with phrase «such scandalous»

No court would allow such a scandalous claim.

Certainly, if Lady Essex found out that such a scandalous correspondence had been carried out right under her nose, then the only notes Daphne would be composing would answering the messages of condolences for Lady Essex's fatal heart ailment.

I can't think of someone who would put $ 499 down to pre-order a device which is involved in such a scandalous tale.

I never would have pictured a female Vader in such a scandalous get up — but it's a pretty funny take on what she'd look like.

How many further legal actions, convictions and resignations of state legislators under such scandalous circumstances will it take to change the culture of government?

Speaking in an interview with Kwame Tutu on frontline on Rainbow Radio, Supt. Cephas Arthur said he was sad that a legislator could make such scandalous statements over a high profile case involving the murder of a colleague MP.

It allows people like him to be elected to positions of power, only to abuse them by writing such scandalous articles for public consumption.

In such a scandalous year for the sport with the FBI's ongoing investigation into corruption inside college basketball, there was a lot discussed.

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.

Not exact matches

Those familiar with global intelligence say such practices aren't really scandalous, but commonplace.

The ministry of Jesus to such outcasts was scandalous to many.

To some, such permission to useChurch property may seem only just and charitable; but in reality it is contradictory to the purpose for which these institutions were founded, it is misleading and often scandalous.»

If God's scandalous relationship with the 12 thugs means anything, then we should expect a variegated spectrum of righteousness and be patient — or repentant — when such sanctification doesn't meet out expectations.

We entangle ourselves in such questions whenever we seek to avoid the offense of the gospel, its scandalous particularity and finality, its thorny refusal to be made one faith among others.

I know some people would think it scandalous to even suggest such a thing, but is that not how the God of the Bible seems to work?

«Humanists who do not believe in God or a future life have been in a stronger position to insist on the urgency of making things better at once, in this [life]... If this is the only life that anybody has, then the fact that many people must spend it in such misery becomes more obviously and inexcusably scandalous.

If we make this assumption, we can still say that they seem to have acted with a naiveté that is scandalous in people with such broad responsibilities, because in their mercy they took too few precautions that the abusers would not strike again with other victims.

Such an idea might seem scandalous to most Christians today, but this idea is no more scandalous to us than the idea to the first century Jewish person of the Messiah dying on a cross.

He was clearly worried lest the tension between Erfurt and himself might come out in public: `... It would seem shameful, disgraceful and even scandalous that I should ascend to such dignity without you in Erfurt knowing of it, or being invited to it.

It is clearly unacceptable that a manager earning such a «ridiculous» and «overpaid» wage, is incapable and not even close to deliver trophies, major trophies on a regular basis... it is just scandalous and what is more shocking, you have «deluded» fans like him who will tell you that there is nothing better (as a manager) around...!!

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.

«It is scandalous that when we have such record levels of success the Coalition is reducing the opportunities for young people to access university to develop the higher level skills the economy needs.

Yet in the poisonous politics of America today, such an idea is considered by some to be scandalous.

Question from Nan Wiliams «One hundred years on from the height of the Suffragette movement, it remains nothing short of scandalous that we have such unequal representation of women at the top of business and the top of politics.

In earlier days such a question at the Conservative party conference would probably have been scandalous.

«An order of the court compelling the first defendant to write a letter personally addressed to the plaintiff admitting his comments were untrue and unfortunate and given his tacit commitment never again to spew such falsehood and scandalous defamatory remarks on the person of the plaintiff.

Last year, when he tried to register his logo, examining attorney Rachel Blue denied the application based on a federal statute that allows such a decision if the logo is «immoral, deceptive or scandalous».

The humor isn't anywhere near as scandalous as it claims to be because the very idea of pushing bizarre premises to their nastiest and most absurd extremes jumped the shark at least a decade ago, rendering any and all further reiterations of such gags pointless.

We get an up - close look at her beginnings as an Austrian Jewish emigre whose scandalous nude scene in the 1933 film, Ecstasy, caused such an enormous international uproar that even the Pope was moved to denounce it.

While it's not a musical, its storyline revolves around a striving entertainment star and as such features several memorable musical numbers, ranging from the exotic to the scandalous to the moving, including Midler's cover of Dumbo's «Baby Mine.»

All of the problems associated with charter schools, such as, siphoning of public school funding, increased segregation, scandalous recruiting practices and blatant profiteering can be found in charters in and surrounding America's Christmas City.

Current events, such as a scandalous pregnancy or a theft, and criticisms of local and world leaders and politicians were also used as a source of inspiration for other dances.

Emin gained celebrity in the 90s for such bold and scandalous works as «Everyone I Have Ever Slept with 1963 — 1995» at the Royal Academy in London in 1997 (a tent that she appliquéd with individuals» names), and My Bed (she exhibited her own unmade bed, strewn with used condoms and dirty undergarments) at the Tate Gallery in 1999, which shortlisted her for the prestigious Turner Prize.

Taking on an even darker tone than usual, Gilbert & George hone in on the scandalous side of urban culture with images such as Sweet Air Sweet Air where the artists have decorated the image with nitrous oxide canisters.

Works in the sale incorporate humour in various ways, such as a literal joke, a parody, a ridiculous image, something scandalous or absurd — as the following pieces demonstrate.

Duchamp's Nude Descending a Staircase (No. 2)(1912) was considered scandalous and roundly mocked by the media of the day, such as in a March 1913 Cubist - inspired cartoon in The Evening Sun newspaper, seen in reproduction in the show, that depicted «The Rude Descending a Staircase (Rush Hour at the Subway).»

Such a small sample is scandalous; the non-release of this information for 9 years is scandalous; the use of this undisclosed data as crucial evidence for several more official HS graphs is scandalous.

Still, and although I know this boat sailed a long time ago, I can't help but wonder if the days when such a pleading would have been seen as scandalous rather than helpful, were not better days.»

Though its roots may be traced back as far as the pioneering era of sexuality in India, and later to the Enlightenment (Rousseau, Marquis de Sade) and the Victorian era (Algernon Charles Swinburne's scandalous Poems and Ballads of 1866), it was a development in the modern world which saw the significant loss of power by the values of a morality rooted in the orthodox religious traditions such as the Christian tradition and the rise of permissive societies, of attitudes that were accepting of greater sexual freedom and experimentation that spread all over the world and were captured in the concept of «free love».