Sentences with phrase «with disdain of»

On the third day of Lent, early this morning, a friend texts me that her baby died in the night, and my heart writhes with disdain of death and there's a searing sadness that can make you feel physically sick.

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In the past, when people of color were treated with indignity and disdain for simply existing, most responses from company leaders involved an approach of firing an employee, a feeble apology, and business as usual once the event faded from the headlines.

Trump has made it clear he plans to treat the press with the same kind of disdain and even outright animosity he showed during the campaign, and will likely continue to do an end - run around them as much as possible using Twitter (twtr) and other social platforms.

I've shared this before, but it still amazes me how many CEOs I meet who still invest tens to hundreds of thousands of dollars on trade shows, yet they look upon Twitter with disdain.

In 2013, the federal government continued, as in the past, to show its ideological arrogance; its unwillingness to confront major economic challenges; its disdain for Parliament; its aversion to openness and transparency; its rejection of a federal role in working with the provinces to strengthen the Federation; and its inability to adopt evidence based policy.

It's because women are no longer viewed with the disdain they once were in the patriarchal hierarchy of Rome.

Personally, even with my disdain for celibacy do not understand how someone could do this just for their sense of, of,...?

it's insane how you know so little of your own religion and how you go against your Christs teaching with such arrogant and disdain towards atheist and other religions your nothing but a bigot and hatemonger your world is only black and white and you can't fathom how a country can have so many different people with different believes that don't match yours and can live peacefully without your christs.

Julie, as you correctly point out, has offered support for her claims, and the principle figures in this mess have answered with nothing more than outright dismissal and disdain for her, and that — at least to my mind — gives the lie to their protestations of innocence, whether before the fact or after.

It is with utter disdain that anyone suggesting that I myself should go and re-read that pile of manure would get that statement handed back to them.

If you knew intimate details about my own past and the deep hurt I've endured, you would apologize — or maybe you wouldn't care at all; after all, most never consider that kind of thing, though their past encounters with «Christians» is enough to justify their life - long disdain for them in the eyes of the people that applaud them.

I've seen this in my own life as my frustrations with the conservative evangelical culture in which I grew up cause me to dismiss its proponents with more anger and disdain than those of any other faith.

In reference to your disdain for pointing out «lies», please provide verifiable evidence (with references, of course) that your god exists.

I know of Christians who care deeply about genocide and human trafficking and refugees and hunger... but who speak with disdain about the very reporters who so often bring these stories to light.

Neither they nor their Republican nihilist counterparts with whom they share a disdain for even the most rational of compromises didn't succeed in creating a TOTAL train wreck.

But watch, lest any of you look with disdain upon the children of Abraham because they have fallen on these evil days of traditional barrenness.

Wouldn't it come as a baffling shock if Christians everywhere put down their picket signs, ceased the boycotts, dropped the Christmas lawsuits, and instead, showered politicians, business owners, and ACLU workers that show disdain for Christmas / Christians with thoughtful gifts, invitations to OUR Christmas celebrations, letters of prayers, (not condemning ones), asking nothing in return?

The intensity of disdain increases with the direct impact of the religion in question upon the lives of non-believers, but your statement is patently false.

The mentality that Rauschenbusch deployed to seduce his readers — the turn away from troubling debates about doctrine, the shift from personal salvation to social reform, and the reassurance that progressive disdain for traditional religion was in fact a sign of a more authentic and scientific faith — provided a way to remain Christian while setting aside whatever seems incompatible with modern life.

When they are met with disdain, however, they are not to brood over it, but rather wipe the dust off their feet at the same time they declare that the Kingdom of God has come near even if the people will not believe it.

Secondly, you must be familiar with the teachings of Jesus, who vividly expressed disdain for the selfish behavior of the wealthy.

How does one respond to someone who has such disdain for anyone believing in God (let alone the Christian understanding of who God is) with any ounce of belief that you really want your question answered.

For the Greek citizen of old, leisure and play were what were truly worthwhile, while the workaday world was viewed with disdain.

He refers, with more than a little disdain, to those of us who «still think that mildly socialist ideas such as anti-individualism, collectivist projects, income equality, and a vision of full state welfare benefits» best fulfill Christian morality.

It tends to be the people of no faith, who are offended by or have disdain for, those with faith.

A fresh infusion of Christian skepticism would disdain such books, even as it would help deliver publishers from the temptation to get rich by manufacturing toilet tissue with the words «Get Thee Behind Me, Satan» printed on every sheet.

The rise of ideological feminism, with its disdain for housewives and promotion of abortion, was exactly one of those cultural changes in Schlafly's eyes.

They are looking for a way to celebrate the pureness of their spirit — w / o tainting it with the hate, disdain, gossip and other ill - intention behavior that churches of organized religion has.

You can tell them by how they treat others with disdain and malice instead of love and acceptance, who shun those in need or who are impoverished and seek after those who are worldly and speak words to soothe their itching ears.

But now they make sport of me, men who are younger than I, whose fathers I would have disdained to set with the dogs of my flock!

He notes that Marxists share with conservative philosophers a disdain for concerns about the meaning of language, but he observes that it is exactly at the level of language that the moral inadequacies and corruptions of our age are evident.

Most of the congregation accepted their willow wands with equanimity, but there were a few older women, led by Mrs Dealey, who disdained the willows and held out for palms.

My interrogator, his voice shrill and appalled, his nose wrinkled with disdain, stared at me with a mixture of shock and pity.

Thou who first wast sensible of and didst first bear witness to that prodigious passion which disdains the dreadful conflict with the rage of the elements and with the powers of creation in order to strive with God; thou who first didst know that highest passion, the holy, pure and humble expression of the divine madness» which the pagans admired — forgive him who would speak in praise of thee, if he does not do it fittingly.

And since the man is something of a philosopher himself, though in a rude and coarse manner, perhaps he will appreciate my gesture better than did the other Jew, especially since he has often expressed a disdain for death - provoking Roman and Jew alike with his teachings and antics.

This stretch is bad enough but what's worse is how Prothero's disdain for Santorum manifests itself repeatedly throughout the piece in a petty ad hominem like «Saint Santorum» and resurrecting the deliberating misleading conflation of Santorum's personal beliefs about birth control with his public policy stance.

A different reason, too, for the literary philosemitism of Ulysses: Leopold Bloom's bumbling personality casts him as the butt of jokes and disdain, but he's also the means for yoking the story of Odysseus with the story of Europe's Jews; a person and a people hounded by the powerful.

One of the middle aged participants remarked, with an air of disdain, «Oh, I thought we'd grown out of that sort of thing.»

He repeatedly invertedthe audience's perspective at one point reflecting the disdain of the establishment, and at others invoking sympathy with the rebels.

The disdain for mystery implied in these two intimately connected standards of exploration has dramatically negative implications for how we regard the natural world in a scientific age.2 Even though initially the quest for clarity and simplicity seems innocent enough, unless carefully contained it can become a weapon of power wielded ruthlessly to hack away the rich undergrowth of vagueness that goes along with any cherishing of mystery.

... A number of scientific studies indicate that most global warming in recent decades is due to the great concentration of greenhouse gases (carbon dioxide, methane, nitrogen oxides and others) released mainly as a result of human activity... Doomsday predictions can no longer be met with irony or disdain.

When thou shinest in the royal city, the rich man is sated with good things, the poor man even disdains the lotus; all that is produced is of the choicest; all the plants exist for thy children.

Both have experienced the disdain and rejection of the contemporary sensibility because they hold to assumptions that seem quite incompatible with a modern scientific mode of viewing reality.

Now i know The level of decadence that is apparent in America is soo high that most people readily blame their own self conceived disdain for the current state of our nation on our leaders instead of trying to have faith and realize that there is nothing wrong with our current state.

The same care must be taken to encourage devotees of Spirit not to disdain gathering in common with everyone else on Sunday morning so that the means of grace offered Sunday morning keep check on the subjectivity of Spirit experiences.

It exposes his usual disdain for real live people, his frustration with their inability to fix themselves into what he thinks they should be, and his obsession with applying a superficial layer of religious fantasy over our broken world and our struggles within it.

Now stars of Hollywood outshine the Star With glittering gifts all wise men would disdain Though thousands wait for throws in dark and rain, Not Gaspar, Melchior, and Balthazar.

C.S. Lewis's fictional villains often displayed a disdain for animals while Lewis, known to share bread with the mice of his house, was noted for his compassion.

Once again, most of you don't know any muslim people, and so you treat their religion with disdain.

Furthermore, Locke's obsession with rational productivity is a clear precursor to the careerist turn the university would eventually take, becoming something more like a credentialing center than a place of higher learning; Locke disdained belletristic study long before it was fashionable to do so.