Sentences with phrase «wicked political»

It's the most quotable film of the decade — by miles — and the cynical potty mouths on screen are so articulate and creative that, after the avalanche of witticisms, you're left with the lingering sense that you've seen not just a funny movie but also a wicked political satire of the highest order, the kind where the absurdity speaks for itself.

It's the most quotable film of the 2000s — by miles — and the cynical potty mouths on screen are so articulate and creative that, after the avalanche of witticisms, you're left with the lingering sense that you've seen not just a funny movie but also a wicked political satire of the highest order, the kind where the absurdity speaks for itself.

This wicked political drama penetrates modern Washington D.C.'s shadowy world of greed, sex, and corruption.

Then I realized that we've all been enjoyed wicked political satire for years on a regular basis.

St. Paul warns us that we are not to do evil that good might come, which means we should not endorse a wicked political leader, even if he holds out the promise of forestalling greater evils.

The shift from a Christian frame to Machiavelli's comes when Holloway defines a wicked political leader as one «without principle,» and then proceeds to argue that Trump can not be such a leader, as he appears to have a strong, consistent interest in amassing power.

Holloway affirms that «we are not to do evil that good might come» and that «we should not endorse a wicked political leader, even if he holds out the promise of forestalling greater evils.»

Not exact matches

He has a flair for political impersonations and is said to do a wicked Jean Chretien and Joe Clark.

The bible also mentions that, after False Religion is exterminated, the world leaders will focus there attention to Gods true worshipers, but when that happens, God will protect his people and will exterminate the world political poweres and the wicked people.

The justification of the good has been replaced by the justification of the wicked; the idealization of good citizenship has given way to the idealization of its opposite, of disorder, chaos, anarchy and catastrophe; the forgiving love of Jesus for the sinful woman, for the adulteress and for the publican, has been misrepresented, for psychological or political reasons, in order to make of it a Christian sanctioning of anti-social «marginal existences,» prostitutes and traitors to their country.

Second, what about Islam being wicked and evil is a shocking or political statement?

Since Jesus referred to the wicked one, Satan, as «the ruler of the world» or its «prince» (John 12:31) he would have nothing to do with the decisions made in ANY political system.

The idea of cooperating with the SNP is dismissed in horror perhaps because Labour's appalling performance in Scotland is seen as a result of their wicked machinations rather than the fact that Labour took the Scots for granted and failed to maintain its political profile in Scotland.

My conviction is that it is time to end the tyranny of rulership of a wicked minority Political elite class.

If Macdonald gave the audience a sense of where domestic cats fit into their larger biological context, Hadidian provided some social, cultural, and political context — framing the issue of free - roaming cat management as a classic «wicked problem.»

The climate challenge is particularly tough, even «beyond super wicked,» because it is the ultimate mashup, one in which variegated nations and blocs are weighing economic prosperity, available energy menus, environmental vulnerability and — most important for many — political realities on the home front.

In the end, the main value of the climate calculations spurred by Trump's election could be in refocusing attention on the true scope of the challenge, which some researchers have described as «super wicked» given how hard it has been, using conventional political, legal or diplomatic tools, to balance human energy needs and the climate system's limits.

Some hoped the fierce ideological polarization in America might force resolution of the profound political and social Wicked Problems such closed - mindedness and tribalism poses.