Sentences with word «venality»

Sally Potter's The Party sets its sights on the duplicitous liberal elite, where venality hides behind paper - thin morals.Janet -LRB-...

The Book of the Acts of the Apostles and the Epistles in the New Testament make abundantly clear that contemporary church politics has no corner on venality, corruption, and partisan spirit; yet the power of Scripture is that it portrays a community for which the resurrection is not just a promise but a reality — in which, that is to say, the Spirit dwells.

Sally Potter's The Party sets its sights on the duplicitous liberal elite, where venality hides behind paper - thin morals.

Indeed, the film's point of view on Hollywood in general is perplexing in the extreme, since the makers of this exercise in venality enjoy a lot of digs at the venal stars, directors, and studio heads of yesteryear.

Their essential relentlessness and chilly venality makes it so.

Neoliberal globalization divorces the state from the population and encourages corruption and organized venality on an unprecedented scale: The state becomes a repressive instrument policing the privilege of the few.

Their problem is not venality but, well, a certain form of stupidity.

The current outrage is over the Clintons» vulgar venality, a vice about which most of his rich former allies try to be discreet.

The cumulative results of human degradation, ignorance, greed and venality over the ages have created a conspiracy of suffering which can only be undone by a new injection of wisdom and a new conspiracy of love - love of God and love of neighbour.

The subsequent report led to multiple probes that exposed Spitzer's venality well before the prostitution charges that forced his resignation.

True, the late Sani Abacha was unfazed champion of military venality; and, from the exciting tales from Vindication of a General, Ishaya Bamaiyi's new memoirs, as Abacha's chief of army staff, the military plutocrats back then just might have buried Abacha, before Abacha would bury them, with him.

«They act like stenographers of Preet Bharara's news conferences, instead heeding his request that they start investigations because prosecutors alone can't end political venality,» blogged Tilzer, who is based in Brooklyn.

Now, Smith alleged venality.

It isn't just the corruption — the expenses scandal, the recent Rifkind - Straw venality, the link between life peerages and party donations reported yesterday.

There are, it turns out, ways to do the wrong thing that go beyond the usual influence - peddling, bribing, extorting and other common varieties of Albany venality.

The last MPs» expenses scandal and continuing «cash for questions» exposés have revealed numerous cases of corruption and venality which rightly shocked the population.

We can't deny that this idea is somewhat venality.

For someone who could play venality like few others he was equally adapt at portraying men of conscience due to an inner core of integrity.

I wasn't - Blue Jasmine leaves one with a haunting sense that we're all complicit in the clueless venality that propels our 21st Century American culture.

He thinks it's one of his finer traits, along with his unbridled venality and the horniness of a horned toad.

Well, at least you know exactly what you're dealing with — personal venality.

For an insight into the strokes that were pulled in the AIDS relief effort see Elizabeth Pisani's «Wisdom of Whores» Now imagine that degree of venality cubed, that's a lower bound on the waste, stupidity and theft that would happen under a UN sanctioned global «Carbon Relief» program.

Whether its noble cause or political viewpoint corruption of simple venality, the effect is the same — bad science.

That is why the proven venality of MPs has been so shocking.

Larger forces than run of the mill human venality are at play and even lawyers can be swayed by the wieldings of power that may occur.

A preference for the freshness and immediacy of experience in reaction to the meaninglessness or venality of traditional faith is hardly new, of course.

Two thousand years before all the Watergates and other sordid» - gates,» he came proclaiming God's imminent judgment on the venality of governments, the corruption of police departments, the selfishness of the rich, the self - righteousness of the religious establishment.

Citizens should demand serious proposals in exchange for their votes, not just proofs of the other candidate's venality.

Clint spoke against the venality of lawyers and politicians, and then Romney spoke shortly thereafter.

And when we rid the world of poverty, ignorance and disease and provide for the needs and pleasures of everyone, human venality will cease.

Blinded by the Right paints a disturbing picture of hypocrisy, venality, abuse of power and cynicism; it confirms the worst suspicions that one may have entertained about many of our political leaders; it shows that winning politics is often about appealing to the basest human impulses; and it exemplifies the spirit it condemns.

«Something must be done to drain the venality from the swamp of corruption that is consuming Albany and Democrats are committed to using the lessons of the Bruno affair to implement real ethics reforms that are needed to make government work again.»

But true or false, its believability only underscores the Yoruba obduracy against fallen heroes, particularly when accused of venality and abject lack of character.

At the low end, a kind of all - you - can - eat junk food buffet of venality and waste and foolishness.»

After yesterday's Sunday Times so perfectly skewered the venality of the Conservative Party, all the average lefty need do is sit back with a big wide smirk on his or her face.

The typical Nigerian personality, at least observantly, suffers from impoverished moral sense or conscience, broadly enjoys not conforming to social norms with respect to lawful behaviors, love conning others for personal return or pleasure, recklessly disregard the suffering of others, nonfamily members especially, consistently and repeatedly have no remorse for hurting anyone and buys into mistreating everyone through acts of venality and deceitfulness.

«Do you have acts of venality and possible corruption and illegality» Yes you do.