Sentences with phrase «who scorns»

She also kicks ass and saves the world, but is never the «exceptional woman» who scorns other girls as weak, which is a huge breath of fresh air (d'aww, but only gritty loners are cool and original, right?).

But it's getting late: he's 38, and still claims the mantle of a revolutionary socialist, who scorns all social democratic compromises and accommodations, since left - of - center politicians are, like all the rest, «frauds and liars.»

The foolish man who scorns the rule of the venerable (Arahat), of the elect (Ariya), of the virtuous, and follows false doctrine, he bears fruit to his own destruction, like the fruits of the Katthaka reed.

Reden an die Gebildeten unter ihren Verächtern (Discourses on Religion to the Educated among Those Who Scorn It), was published in 1799.

the point is that the evolutionists that scorn and ridicule creationists mirror the creationists who scorn and ridicule the evolutionists.

This is the nemesis awaiting those who scorn logical analysis and yet use concepts that are either subject to such analysis or are mere poetry and should be left to poets not seeking to convey knowledge.

I've seen those who scorn any meal that doesn't contain carbs as disordered eating, those who unfollow people in social media who are doing Whole 30 or giving up sugar or trying out veganism for the month of January, and those who look down at meal planning as unnecessarily restrictive.

Unfortunately, once we get into the 9 to 5-esque plot (some might also be reminded of The First Wives Club, Chasing Papi, or John Tucker Must Die) of three women who plane to get a lot of slapstick - tinged revenge on the man who scorned them, nearly all of the sure - footed comedy goes out the door.

Plans that rely solely on student test scores have the most opponents, including many parents, who scorn «teaching to the test,» in which students are drilled to increase their test scores rather than taught to understand the underlying material and learning skills to last a lifetime.

This year, in the spirit of Dr. Martin Luther King's «Letter from a Birmingham Jail,» we will explore actions that create stress — actions that foster such a tension that the people who scorn us will have to listen and will have to negotiate.»

All right, this is really bad news for all those who scorn e-books because they love the smell and rustle of paper — Amazon is now selling more books on its Kindle e-book reader than print editions.

The Wall Street Journal «British Mavericks who Scorned Abstract Art» Well before Brexit, some Britons liked going their own way.

Even those of us who scorn superstition rely on routines and rituals for our own protection: we swallow a daily multivitamin, fasten our seatbelts, return our passport to the drawer after a trip.

Not exact matches

Buffett, a widely followed investor who is chairman and chief executive officer of Berkshire Hathaway (brk - a), scorned Trump's 1995 move to list Trump hotels and casino resorts on the New York Stock Exchange, saying it lost money for the next decade and that «a monkey» would have outperformed Trump's company.

Until recently, the average Russian woman — even those who believed in gender equality — treated the word itself with scorn.

Euro - area finance ministers, who gathered for a meeting Saturday initially intended to hammer out a deal, poured scorn on the government's decision and said the door was closing to any further discussion on resolving the standoff.

The US has just elected a candidate who openly embraces racism, sexism, and anti-Islamic rhetoric, mocks disabled people, denies climate change, and scorns the economically disadvantaged.

We must remember if we have control or lose control, succeed or fail, become wildly popular or an object of scorn — none of that speaks to who we truly are.

This was the only commodity Frost and Eliot were capable of producing: the modernist phenomenon as product, mass culture's ultimate revenge on those who would scorn it.»

I'm here to observe, pass judgment, and heap scorn on the heads of those who deserve it.

Eberstadt also calls out the faltering spirit of professed Christians who, fearing scorn and exclusion, keep their counsel.

Dawkins, who is virtually the defining example of an uncompromising scientific materialist, meets that suggestion with the scorn he thinks it deserves.

The scorn we accept and expect, because the pious are SO... warm and accepting of any and all who do not agree with them.

I learned this not from a class in feminist studies, but from Jesus — who was brought into the world by a woman whose obedience changed everything; who revealed his identity to a scorned woman at a well; who defended Mary of Bethany as his true disciple, even though women were prohibited from studying under rabbis at the time; who obeyed his mother; who refused to condemn the woman caught in adultery to death; who looked to women for financial and moral support, even after the male disciples abandoned him; who said of the woman who anointed his feet with perfume that «wherever this gospel is preached throughout the world, what she has done will also be told, in memory of her»; who bantered with a Syrophoenician woman, talked theology with a Samaritan woman, and healed a bleeding woman; who appeared first before women after his resurrection, despite the fact that their culture deemed them unreliable witnesses; who charged Mary Magdalene with the great responsibility of announcing the start of a new creation, of becoming the Apostle to the Apostles.

Although Martin Scorsese's film adaptation of this novel in the 1980s drew the full brunt of scorn from the evangelical community, who were scandalized at the idea that Jesus was actually tempted, the basic story is a stunningly - written and imaginative exploration of the idea of that Jesus was «tempted in every way, just as we are — yet he did not sin.»

They speak of me with scorn, calling me beggar - woman or witch or harlot; but their words are at variance with life, and the pharisees who condemn me, waste away in the outlook to which they confine themselves; they die of inanition and their disciples desert them because I am the essence of all that is tangible, and men can not do without me.

This polemical analysis was in Latin because Dante knew that to beat those who exalted Latin, and scorned all who wrote in the «vulgar» Italian, he had to join them — at least when composing a work on such a subject.

Christ is no longer the God who took on human flesh that he might be scourged and scorned, and so bring the body into glory.

Machiavelli, Voltaire, Matthew Arnold and some of our own politicians are among those who have argued that a religion they would scorn to believe in themselves has many social uses and that its benefits should not be discarded lightly.

The support group in Colomi attracted just a few families who faced the ridicule and scorn of the community and a lack of resources and education to really improve the conditions of their families.

For this action means that he is motivated strongly enough to defy the opinion of his cronies who look with scorn on those who «take a dive for Jesus,» and that he has relaxed his own defenses for the moment and is asking for help.

The students who rioted are idiots and deserve the scorn of the country.

I am disappointed in my generational peers who look back upon «the»60s» with patronizing scorn, as if we ought to be a little embarrassed for having dreamed those dreams.

Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy set before him endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

All they can see is wrath, anger, judgment, and will go to any lengths to mock, scorn and perjure those who KNOW their God, and know that like a diamond, with many facets, so are the characteristics of Father.

All these efforts to assist and regulate the poor were governed by a crucial distinction between the «worthy» and «unworthy» poor, between those who could not be blamed for their dire straits and those who could, between those who were redeemable and those who were not, between public neighbors entitled to support and those subject to scorn.

There is an extraordinary irony that it was Germaine Greer who became the object of a university's scorn this autumn.

In resisting Communist advances in Greece and Turkey, a much - scorned and widely underestimated American president announced in 1947 that it now «must be the policy of the United States to support free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or outside pressures....

For it is premised on the conviction — fictionally adumbrated rather than overtly stated — that the God who sits in his heavens and laughs our folly to scorn is first and finally the God of grace who, in Jesus Christ, humorously accepts and thus transforms our sin into the occasion for his mercy.

We'll even gripe about the people who finally do show up en masse on Christmas Eve and then scorn them for not being there every Sunday.

His parables frequently end with a «punch line» that presents a challenge to conventional expectation: the scorned Samaritan is the «good» one who proves neighbor to the victim on the Jericho Road; those who come to work late at the harvest are provided the same reward as those who toiled all day; the wayward prodigal son is the one who is feasted; the prayer of a repentant sinner is more acceptable to God than that of a righteous Pharisee.9 Shorter sayings make the same point: A camel could pass through a needle's eye more easily than a person of great wealth can enter into God's inbreaking realm (Mt 19:24).

Its always atheists who want to attack the catholic church but will complain when a catholic scorn them even try to sue but they should learn to defend themselves.

That requirement is the difference between the street preacher that is scorned by all, and the street preacher who gets a bridge named after him, upon his demise.

Yet I suspect that more than a few churchpeople, conservative and liberal, continue to scorn those who relish the earnest, homespun approach of Charlie Shedd, Neva Coyle and Gwen Shamblin — those who pray feelingly about issues that may not seem to the rest of us to be on God's top list of concerns.

After our Lord had been whipped, mocked, beaten, scorned and crowned with thorns he prayed for the crowds and soldiers who had done this.

Unlike most other philosophers of science, he does not immediately cast scorn on the likes of William Dembski and Michael Behe, who have focused on the apparent design of cells and organisms.

Bloom's book (subtitled How Higher Education Has Failed Democracy and Impoverished the Souls of Today's Students) is an attention - grabber, mainly because the author, who now teaches philosophy and political science at the University of Chicago, is a polemicist with an obvious scorn for understatement.

Maybe they didn't want to deal with the scorn of those who knew they had failed.

Things are seriously mixed up in our country if Tebow is seen as someone who should be scorned, when so many other pro athletes abuse drugs, abuse their wives, abuse animals, and commit crimes on a regular basis yet the public seems to be just fine with overlooking that behavior.

The modern firing of Dale Tallon as normal manager on the Chicago Blackhawks elevated eyebrows around the NHL, earning the club specifically, team president John McDonough scorn for your callous treatment of Tallon, who was moved towards situation of senior advisor because of the club.