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The denigrators even carp at the king's cultural policies and call for the Mawazine festival, an annual musical extravaganza held in the capital, Rabat, to be cancelled on the grounds of excessive cost.
This understanding, naturally, is to be contrasted with the faulty vision possessed by those who do not appreciate the role of entrepreneurs and expect that the latter concentrate their gaze on returns and profits as if drunk from a shiny accumulation of gold coins, which shows how these denigrators are out of touch with the reality of their contempt.
Despite the excuses of his defenders and accusations of his denigrators, Pius XII recognized the moral dimension of his wartime discretion and the ethical dilemma inherent in his diplomatic neutrality.
On the left, the sandal-wearing Greens; on the right, their meat-eating, plain-talking denigrators.
However, I rather like the phrase "the disintegrators of Shakespeare's early work" (99-100), though I suspect "denigrators" was meant.
For this reason, despite an army of admirers, his ability to cut to the chase also attracted a fair share of denigrators - those, and their followers, who would have us believe one thing while working on a wholly different, hidden agenda.
This chapter focuses on missionaries' fixation on "idolatry," with much appropriate attention to its roots in anti-Catholic rhetoric and state-enforced discrimination in Britain, and to the backgrounds of two of the most dedicated evangelizers and influential denigrators of Indian religious and social practices, the Baptist William Ward and the Anglican Claudius Buchanan.
Another element in the loose coalition of Jewish anti-Israel club members engages in that subtle "psychological defense mechanism by embracing the indictments of their abusers." Finally there is one section of the Jewish Israel denigrators who are simply cowards.
The two denigrators, on the other hand, may not know it yet, but they've lost out.
In his 1986 Nobel Lecture, Soyinka shattered taboos by reminding his audience that many of the most revered names of the European Enlightenment--including Locke, Montesquieu, Hume, and Voltaire--were "unabashed theorists of racial superiority and denigrators of the African history and being." However, he quickly reassured his listeners that his purpose was "not really to indict the past, but to summon it to the attention of a suicidal, anachronistic present." This new memoir is not an easy read, but it is a profoundly rewarding one.
Many former despisers and denigrators of the bicycle themselves became its votaries and chanted its benefits.
A study of the reception of Dante in Florence from 1350 to 1481, Simon Gilson's Dante and Renaissance Florence tracks how and to what purposes Dante's supporters and denigrators responded to their city's most famous vernacular poet.
But Prince Charles, having weathered a career of constant personal scrutiny and oftentimes torment at the hands of the British press and denigrators of his city planning and architectural ideas, is a survivor--and a triumphant one--in his own way.
In this regard, it becomes apparent that evolution is not just another scientific theory but rather constitutes a political movement with its supporters and denigrators.