Sentences with phrase «with pejorative»

Women with borderline personality disorder expressed they were living with a pejorative label, with self destructive behaviour viewed as manipulative, and with limited access to care

Yet if one does not «believe climate change is real» one is castigated with pejorative adjectives by those who equivocate between «climate change» and «catastrophic anthropogenic global warming»!

Even with the difficulties discussed above, the conversation about cross-gen games and development is riddled with pejorative connotations.

Critics have tagged the Common Core with the pejorative «ObamaCore.»

Your point seems to be that this concept should not be saddled with a pejorative sounding label like «Dutch disease».

Dr. Lindzen was a lifetime Democrat and has undergrads interrupt him with pejoratives when he does speaking engagements on the campus he's been associated with for over 50 years.

Not exact matches

Instead of running ads, they would define Scheer more slowly, over time, with a series of forced choices in Parliament, through government motions, much as opposition parties usually seek to define governments (you'll note that «define» in Ottawa politics is almost always pejorative by implication) through clever use of their occasional opportunity to define a day's parliamentary debate through so - called «supply motions.»

It seemed he could hardly talk about anything else, which struck his critics as a borderline unhealthy obsession and stuck him with all manner of unfortunate pejoratives like «communist» and «marxist.»

Now it would be a great mistake to attribute this difficulty solely or even primarily to so - called Muslim «fundamentalism» (which is probably a pejorative misnomer in any case); in a more basic sense, the difficulty is due to the intense integration of religion with every aspect of culture and society in the Islamic view of the world.

Comes with the territory unless you insist on polite, policy which prevent pejoratives.

Paul's highly pejorative description of homosexual practice in Romans 1:24 - 27 — «dishonorable» or «degrading,» «contrary to nature,» an «indecency» or «shameful / obscene behavior,» and a fit «payback» for straying from God — suggests that Paul regarded homosexual practice as an especially serious infraction of God's will, in line with all Jewish perspectives of the time.

What is truly a miracle, in the pejorative sense of an event having no rational connection with what has gone before, is the emergence of a being with consciousness, free will, and a capacity to understand the laws of nature in a universe which in the beginning contained only matter in mindless motion.

Westerners and Asians with democratic convictions will, of course, characterize this model in morally pejorative terms.

Clearly exhibiting a desire to smear the candidates and parties concerned, these pejorative labels represent a gross interference with the independence of voters to assess the character of the persons and entities coming before them.

the fact that the term midget was used here says a lot about the writer of this blog... dwarfism happens because of different medical conditions... and many people affected with dwarfism like to be called little people... midget is considered to be pejorative.

A pejorative term that's used with pride, hinting at a kind of arrogance that only winners can afford to display.

Because using a word that describes a condition someone is born with as a pejorative is what nature people do...

seems like rangewolf is the «butthurt» one (not that I'd use such a term to describe someone personally, but that's the pejorative he went with).

The connection with negative attributes (and hence its pejorative use) like demagoguery, racism, nativism and so on is a rhetorical device used by those on the other side of the argument (that would be the anti-Trump movement in the US and the «remainers» in the UK).

Blairite was once a term used to describe those associated with the right of the Labour Party — not necessarily in a pejorative sense.

The term «teabagger» is slang (typically used in the pejorative sense) to refer to those that associate themselves with the Tea Party, which is a movement primarily (but not exclusively) associated with the Republican Party in the United States.

I don't self - identify with your somewhat pejorative description a «brown man» - and I reject the idea that these issues are of specific and segmented interest.

He puts up with the name - calling (Pee - Pee, Guido, and other racist pejoratives) until, through circumstances so contrived they qualify as science - fiction, he is shipwrecked with her on a deserted island.

But with «mum» no longer a pejorative term («mom jeans» = Vogue - approved denim choice), planet film is catching on to the excellent - ness of mothers.

It's gaudy in every pejorative connotation of the word, packed to the rafters with distracting, stupid, show - offy clutter of the sort that people accumulate when they fear they don't have substance without it.

He went big and weighty in 2015 with Spotlight, but McCarthy's small - scale debut could hardly be more different, the rare kind of quirky indie drama where such a label isn't a pejorative.

I am willing to bet the Smarter Balanced people haven't learned yet how to keep a reasonable rate of reliability (or for that matter validity) on these testing approaches so they are using our kids as «guinea pigs» while they calibrate and re-calibrate their tests to show which of our kids our «most stupid» and they can call them pejorative names and close their schools and fire the teachers etc etc with harsh punitive measures that are meant to destroy public education.

This is a partisan point, but not intended to be pejorative, and I don't think you'll find many Conservatives who disagree with it.

Market - timing is much too pejorative, and is also too easy to confuse with short - term market timing.

This is a meaningless phrase with a sneering or pejorative nuance.

These are personal opinions crossed with broadsides & a marginally - applicable study, plus a fair amount of inaccurate & pejorative verbiage.

Steinberg suggested that early in his career Robert Rauschenberg (1925 - 2008) had exploded the possibilities of painting - in both liberating and pejorative senses - by treating his pictures» surfaces like tables on which anything might be combined with anything.

He has made his thoughts on the Republican presidential nominee abundantly clear with a series of prints and T - shirts featuring Donald Trump's face over a Spanish pejorative.

Like loose pages torn from a journal, the «paintings» on view are encrusted with lascivious catcalls, terms of endearment, drunken pejorative slurs, and teenage slang.

Benson also flirts with decoration, another narrative cast aside as pejorative in the history of modernism.

(Contrarians will sometimes pick the latter with which to smear all — so the label «environmentalist» has become pejorative nowadays.)

That pejorative expression that has so much currency — «obviously written with a movie in mind» — requires qualification when applied to Crichton.

The problem with this «end justifies the means» argument — where the means involved is the abhorrent use of a pejorative descriptor to devalue the arguers of alternative points of view rather than their arguments at the political and social level — is that it is as close to absolute evil in social and public discourse as it is possible to get.

Now let's see what pejorative nonsense you have come up with now.

That notwithstanding, my main concern with labels is not that we shouldn't have them, but that if we do, they shouldn't be pejorative, or, to some extent, elitist / exclusionary.

I am non-responsive to: «righteous hindsight»; «whipping boy»; «overegg the ad superbiam»; using the name «David Rose» like it is an «a priori» pejorative term; your curious (to me) concern over me adding a word (auditability) to my own original thoughts as they take on an evolving context in a polite (well, up till a little while ago polite) conversation with you; your presumptive omniscient self - serving claim of knowledge of my «due diligence»; implying there is a problem endorsing parts of the IAC report but not others; etc, etc, etc...

The skeptical blog Jammie Wearing Fools wrote, «Fifteen years, no warming, yet we've endured nonstop hysteria in that time, with skeptics derisively called deniers, among other pejoratives.

C'm on — stating that SMHI was «reluctant to be connected» with data that had been «processed» is pejorative beyond what can inferred from those letters.

In your article for instance, I could simply substitute the pejorative term CAGW, with Climate Denialism throughout..

The article is about a petulant child using juvenile pejoratives to rant against anyone who disagree with him.

Getting hate from your political peers who think you've gone soft has nothing to do with free - speech or the politically misaligned pejorative «McCarthyism» which is term fraught with illogical thinking and social bias to begin with.

In the case of the hockey stick there was a long battle to deal with grudging, inaccurate and pejorative language (well documented here).

The situation reminds me of a house painter attempting to paint a still life with his accustomed roller, or — to avoid an implied pejorative comparison — an artistic painter trying to cover a house with a palette knife.

Regulatory Demands Can Have Unintended Consequences If tactical lists of favorite regulations to promulgate and past executive decisions to «fix» is all what our loosely formed green machine has to say, then we can fully expect those who still use «Tree Hugger» as a pejorative term to mock us with our own irrelevance.

, and he didn't seem to care that the Chinese will buy oil from undemocratic, totalitarian countries with (to be pejorative) despicable justice systems if we don't sell it to them.