If this psalm is post-Exilic, as most modern critics think, the cornerstone, in its first application, may be Israel regarded as a whole. The great builders, the rulers of Assyria, Babylon, Persia, had despised that stone; but it was chosen of God, and now it was set in Zion. It ...
As the leader of the moderate faction of the Republican Party, Lincoln confronted Radical Republicans, who demanded harsher treatment of the South; War Democrats, who rallied a large faction of former opponents into his camp; anti-war Democrats (called Copperheads), who despised him; and ...
no one is despised who can manage a crocodile. In this case, since babies are illogical, illogical persons are despised and despised people cannot manage crocodiles, we conclude: “babies cannot manage crocodiles”. I have presented this to someone who said that the result is obvious since of ...
The result is that the West doesn’t know itself or its rival. “And that’s going to make them lose, according toThe Art of War,”Li says. But he quickly adds: “I’m not saying that China and the West are enemies; I’m just using that as an analogy.” New ideas Shanghai-bo...
A witch or Sorcerer was also a hermit, and these were normally people who despised others and preferred to be as reclusive as possible. Old Magicians like Gargamel who don't connect with others and spend their livelihood chasing down Smurfs for weird Alchemical Conconctions. We are living in...
She and her character became cultural touchstones, both loved and despised for many reasons: her revealing clothing, her rail-thin physique, her self-absorption, her fitness as feminist poster girl, etc. The Golden Globe-winning actress focused more on the work than on celebrity, earning goo...
the charismatic future president despised having his picture taken at the time and would have to be dragged from the shower room when newspaper photographers wanted to photograph the team. Coaches later recalled that Kennedy was a bit frail as an athlete and looked like a lanky string bean but...
Pray the gods to stretch their protecting hand over temples, farmers, councils and the language of the Greeks, to bring low all that has improperly been raised up, to allow what is unjustly despised to recover its due, and to grant me, in place of my present woe, full cause for joy”...
“the most despised man in science fiction.” a conversation with beale feels sort of like walking around a room designed by mc escher. it turns in on itself in unexpected and at times dizzying ways. a sampling: when i asked him why he once called noted fantasy author nk jemisin an “...
To devote herself to some poor outcast, to reform a distorted soul, to give all she had to the most abject, to do all she could for the despised and rejected,–this was her craving and absorbing desire. I remember some comical instances of the pursuance of this self-abnegation, where ...