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Deriding people because of their beliefs, ideas, aesthetic or lives to make them first "other," and then less than fully human simply because they are different or don't agree with our way is an old tribal tradition.
Rev. Barbara Kaufmann: Speaking of Violence: Words In The Wake of Tucson's Tragedy Rev. Barbara Kaufmann 2011
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Here's what Unger has to say about realism: Deriding both popular mobilization and ideological contests, this disenchanted idea of politics sees its work to strike compromises with powerful interests, the better to solve disparate practical problems.
Archive 2009-02-01 Matthew Guerrieri 2009
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Deriding German writers for producing "art crap", he often chose work by British playwrights: David Harrower's Knives in Hens (1997), Mark Ravenhill's Shopping and Fucking (1998), a version of Enda Walsh's Disco Pigs (1999).
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Deriding its critics as mad is an age-old British establishment trick.
Unlawful Killing – the film the British won't get to see | Keith Allen 2011
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Here's what Unger has to say about realism: Deriding both popular mobilization and ideological contests, this disenchanted idea of politics sees its work to strike compromises with powerful interests, the better to solve disparate practical problems.
Get real Matthew Guerrieri 2009
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Deriding people because of their beliefs, ideas, aesthetic or lives to make them first "other," and then less than fully human simply because they are different or don't agree with our way is an old tribal tradition.
Rev. Barbara Kaufmann: Speaking of Violence: Words In The Wake of Tucson's Tragedy Rev. Barbara Kaufmann 2011
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Deriding the auteur theory, Beatty strove for directorial transparency, avoiding the flashy flourishes that called attention to themselves, the jittery camera and long tracking shots that Scorsese favored, or the signature 360 degree tail-swallowing pans so dear to Brian De Palma.
STAR PETER BISKIND 2010
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Deriding him because he had a career in entertainment is ridiculous.
Potential Coleman GOP Rival: I Love Norm, "But He Lost To Al Franken, For Goodness' Sake" 2010
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Deriding homeowners who are getting foreclosed on, he said:
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Deriding those who care about the constitution does not however, make you a good citizen, Micah.
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