Word: demeans
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...Dartmouth was good—compound that with the fact that we were not very good, and that’s the result we got,” Harvard coach Ted Donato ’91 said. “I don’t wish to demean Dartmouth’s effort, but I thought it was one of our worst games of the season...
There's a song on the album called "Arab Money" that incorporates verses from the Koran as well as statements about women and partying. Some people are really offended by the song and its video. I know you've stated publicly that the song isn't meant to demean anyone. What were you trying to say there? I think the handful of people who disagreed with this song really misunderstood what the record was about. What I'm talking about is getting money. I was really trying to point out that Arabs have one of the richest cultures...
...which Guido, a moviemaker with director's block, is beset by memories and fantasies as he dodges all the women in his life, from mother to wife to whore to mistress to muse. Caden has women problems (wife, daughter, mistress, actress); but Synecdoche, bless it, doesn't demean or dismiss any of them - except maybe the family shrink (Hope Davis), who tells Caden her new best-selling book can help him, then charges him $45 for a copy. And this artist's problem is not the lack of an idea but his fidelity to it as it grows and grows...
...once said that though he might be thought of as one of the 10 best film critics ever, "what I'd really like is to be considered one of the 100 best American artists." Yet he didn't demean the writing to which he brought so much passion and pain. "Criticism is very important, and difficult," he said in a 2004 interview. "I can't think of a better thing for a person to do." Surely no one did it better than Manny Farber...
...that no matter what the majority of Americans think about gays in the future, lawmakers and courts alike will find it nearly impossible to justify criminal sanctions - just as Scalia warned. Of course, Scalia's wasn't the only one who spoke about gays that day. "The State cannot demean their existence or control their destiny by making their private sexual conduct a crime," Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote in the majority opinion. "Their right to liberty under the Due Process Clause gives them the full right to engage in their conduct without intervention of the government." And despite the loud...