Sentences with phrase «vehemence in»

There has been unexpected vehemence in response to Cook et al's paper Quantifying the consensus on anthropogenic global warming in the scientific literature.

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Of course Eichengreen knows far more about the gold standard than most economists, and is far from being its harshest critic, so he'd undoubtedly be an outlier in the simple regression, y = α + β (x)(where y is vehemence of criticism of the gold standard and x is ignorance of the subject).

I fully understand your vehemence to my position but my only real philosophical goal in this life is to believe what is true.

Vehemence of assertion is often in direct proportion to lack of conviction.

Seemingly, despite progress made against discrimination / prejudice against external differences (colour / race / gender), it is still perfectly acceptable in some places to discriminate against internal differences (beliefs / ideology / worldview / sexual orientation etc.) and to do so with such vehemence as to rival some of those historical examples you cited.

This insight explains the vehemence of his attack upon the German quest for the historical Jesus, just as it illuminates his behavior» during his first years at Lambaréné, when he ransacked the intellectual storehouses of the world's religions in order to find some way to conceive of an affirmation of the world that was not merely mindless hedonism, a way that could motivate a powerful urge toward human betterment, toward perfection within the structures of natural existence.

Alvin Plantinga, explaining the vehemence with which atheists like Dawkins use evolution as a weapon against theism, says that, «For the nontheist, evolution is the only game in town; it is an essential part of any reasonably complex nontheistic way of thinking...» (Plantinga 18 - 19).

He who as soon as born keen - thoughted, foremost, Surpassed the gods, himself, a god, in power; Before whose vehemence the worlds trembled Through his great valour; he, O men, is Indra.

The force of the feminist movement would be greatly strengthened if its contemporary vehemence was more deeply rooted in the larger and older chorus that cried out against earlier injustice.

Had anyone suggested that they abandon their Jewish Bibles because they believed in Jesus, they would have responded with appropriate vehemence.

«When asked by the younger Margrave why he wrote with such vehemence he said, «Our Lord God must precede a heavy shower with thunder and then let it rain in a very gentle fashion so that the ground becomes soaked through.

This description is suggestive in the vehemence of its hostility.

In the wake of the Hobby Lobby decision, argument on the issue has raged with heightened vehemence.

Rather, they are interested in protecting the security of their ethnic group and continue to maintain, often with great vehemence, that eternal religious invisibility in our public places is the «price of liberty.»

In terms of real negotiating, it's time for the county executive, heretofore denying with unprecedented vehemence and vigor any culpability, to stand up and be counted.

In recalling their vehemence that I should watch it, I'm toying with the idea of being retroactively offended, but the truth is, that documentary saved my life.

There is such pure delicious pleasure in this film, in its strangeness, its vehemence, its flourishes of absurdity, carried off with superb elegance.

Scenes of bloodthirsty vengeance sets up an incredibly cruel and hard - hearted saga, which segues into the Sparrow School, run by a tyrannical Charlotte Rampling (a long way from her serene headmistress in Never Let Me Go, 2010), who with delightful vehemence announces an uncomfortable training regimen for the Sparrows.

A context which Mr. Eduardo Galeano expresses very well in his book «Open Veins of Latin America», and a period that you lived with intensity, vehemence and passion.

Considering that genre fiction is thought to sell so much more readily than literary, I'm always surprised at the vehemence with which some people will describe literary fiction as boring and «pretentious» — as if vampires prancing around in ill - researched period costumes aren't pretentious in their own fashion; as if utterly implausible science fiction isn't a form of pretension at warp speed.

I remember even scoffing a little in the 1960s at London's appetite for shows of the «tragic comedian», antidote to Picasso's vehemence or Matisse's fundamental coldness.

Capturing abstract landscapes even before de Kooning, [her] experimentation in abstract all - over composition achieved a rare level of expression, they pulse with an intimacy and vehemence which her older, male counterparts were only later able to attain.

[2] This was no small feat for the times, especially when you consider the vehemence with which moral - majority leaders denounced the homosexuality and gay activism that were thriving in the New York City arts community Tseng was a part of.

Five years later, his series of women rendered in aggressive, lashing gestures stunned contemporaries, not only for their vehemence but for their supposed reversal in direction from «pure» abstraction to figuration.

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In Zhou Yilun's art, this cocktail of contradictory cultural elements doesn't have the alluvial and demanding vehemence of other artists sharing the same genre, but a type of guilelessness, pleasant purity which finally offers the feeling of comfortable honesty and freedom regarding personal expectation and prejudice.

Thus vehemence of arguments about the past trends is in large part an unacknowledged proxy argument about the future.

The vehemence and vitriol of the above statement is observed in the climate wars and the invoking of the Holocaust denial meme.

She cited as motivation for quitting her objection to «the kind of vehemence and aggressive attack strategy that Exxon has executed over the last year» toward state attorneys general with open investigations of ExxonMobil and over a dozen non-for-profit groups (such as the Union of Concerned Scientists) and individuals who have been in communication with them over the corporation's decades - long role as champion of climate denial.

It also helps explain the vehemence with which the Australian natural gas industry has in the sought exemptions for LNG exemptions from carbon pricing on the potentially specious basis it's cleaner than coal.

In climate science, vehemence of personal attacks are directly proportional to the truth of the claim and qualifications of the author.

Peter Wood analyzes the vehemence of the global warming movement in conjunction with the weakness of its claims.

I mainly found this one of interest in terms of the vehemence of the dispute over not very much, really.

The issue is being debated in the media and online with such vehemence that I do not know if any commission could result in a consensus on the limits to religious freedom in Canada.

I won't link every superb insight I've read about yesterday's hearing — that's Howard Bashman's bailiwick — but I do especially recommend this analysis in The New York Times by Linda Greenhouse, who does a great job of explaining the backstory to Sen. Arlen Specter's vehemence Wednesday in examining the role of Court versus Congress.