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  • Evangelical faith without Christian ethics is a travesty on the gospel.

  • A hotel is a hotel all the world over, a place essentially vulgar, commonplace, venal, the travesty of a human home.

    Travel   Home   World  
    Mrs. Oliphant (Margaret) (1894). “A House in Bloomsbury”
  • To equate a corporation with a person is a travesty of justice.

    "The Supreme Court and Corporate Electioneering" by Madeleine M. Kunin, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 28, 2010.
  • How ghastly for her, people actually thinking, with their brains, and right next door. Oh, the travesty of it all.

    Thinking   Doors   People  
  • You talk about the Pro-Life movement being one of the great shames of our nation. I think, if you want number two, I think - I think it's that. I think it's absolute - it's a travesty that people have forced someone who is gay to make their case that they deserve the same basic rights.

    Gay   Thinking   Rights  
    "The Daily Show", conversation with Mike Huckabee, December 9, 2008.
  • It is a travesty of true religion to consider one's own religion as superior and other's as inferior.

    Mahatma Gandhi (1962). “All Religions are True”
  • But what I didnt want to have happen, and I made this clear to Jeremy (Florida AD), if I am able to go coach, I want to coach at one place, the University of Florida. It would be a travesty, it would be ridiculous to all of a sudden come back and get the feeling back, get the health back, feel good again and then all of a sudden go throw some other colors on my shirt and go coach? I dont want to do that. I have too much love for this University and these players and for what weve built.

    Player   Florida   Color  
  • Earthly providence is a travesty of justice on any other theory than that it is a preliminary stage, which is to be followed by rectifications. Either there must be a future, or consummate injustice sits upon the throne of the universe. This is the verdict of humanity in all the ages.

    Justice   Humanity   Age  
  • The world produces enough food to feed the entire population. It's a travesty that anyone should go hungry anywhere.

  • Unless we maintain correctional institutions of such character that they create respect for law and government instead of breeding resentment and a desire for revenge, we are meeting lawlessness with stupidity and making a travesty of justice.

  • To terrorize a man into believing in God is never the work of God, but the work of human expediency. If we want to convince a congregation of a certain thing, we may use terror to frighten them into it; but never say that is God's way, it is our way. To call that God's method is a travesty to the character of God.

    Believe   Character   Men  
  • It's a travesty that people have forced someone who is gay to have to make their case that they deserve the same basic rights...

    Gay   Rights   People  
    "David Bianculli's Top 10 TV Shows Of 2008". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. December 23, 2008.
  • To compare Whitewater to Watergate is a travesty.

    "Dee Dee Myers : Press Secretary to an Administration Full of Talkers". Interview with Thomas B. Rosenstiel, articles.latimes.com. March 20, 1994.
  • Interior design is a travesty of the architectural process and a frightening condemnation of the credulity, helplessness and gullibility of the most formidable consumers - the rich.

    Design   Rich   Process  
    Stephen Bayley (1991). “Taste: The Secret Meaning of Things”, Pantheon
  • Hollywood movies of the Fifties, like The Ten Commandments and Ben-Hur, with their epic clash of pagan and Judeo-Christian cultures, tell more about art and society than the French-infatuated ideologues who have made a travesty of the "best" American higher criticism.

    Christian   Art   Epic  
    "Junk Bonds and Corporate Raiders : Academe in the Hour of the Wolf". Arion, Third Series, Vol. 1, No. 2, Spring 1991.
  • If I had a dream it would be to think, What would it be like for everybody to have the kind of health care I had? What would that feel like? How would that be, to live in that world? Because I'll tell you, to be really, really sick, and to not have money. That is terrifying. And in my opinion, a travesty.

    Dream   Thinking   Sick  
    "The Big Idea: Eve Ensler". Interview with Suzanne Koven, therumpus.net. June 12, 2013.
  • Funeral expenses are the curse of the poor everywhere on earth, they are wasteful and unnecessary, they are the price of foolish ostentation and a display that is less an evidence of grief than a vulgar travesty of those pompous obsequies where no grief is.

    Grief   Funeral   Earth  
    Joyce Cary (1985). “Except the Lord”, p.39, New Directions Publishing
  • We will have gone from men telling us condescendingly to not bother our pretty little heads about important things like politics, to not bothering our pretty little heads without even being told not to! The suffragettes struggled and suffered so much on our behalf; what a travesty of everything they stood for, if we simply look away as though we can't be bothered.

    Men   Important   Looks  
    "SISTER GIANT: Consciousness and Politics". Interview with Gabrielle Bernstein, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 6, 2012.
  • As always with any discussion of elite immunity, it's crucial to note that what makes this development such a particularly warped travesty is that the very same elites who enjoy this immunity have created the world's largest, and the Western world's most oppressive and merciless, penal state for ordinary citizens.

  • Well, I have my own article on where the heck is global warming?...The fact is that we can't account for the lack of warming at the moment and it is a travesty that we can't.

  • We even talked like Hemingway characters, though in travesty, as if to deny our discipleship: That is your bed, and it is a good bed, and you must make it and you must make it well. Or: Today is the day of the meatloaf. The meatloaf is swell. It is swell but when it is gone the not-having meatloaf will be tragic and the meatloaf man will not come anymore.

    Tobias Wolff (2004). “Old School”, p.14, Vintage
  • The travesty of slavery wasn't physical abuse. It was the moral abuse of looking at a human being as if they are an animal.

    Animal   Abuse   Slavery  
    Alan Keyes' Speech in Wisconsin, www.keyesarchives.com. March 26, 2000.
  • You can't tear up everything just to get the dollar out of it without suffering as result. It is a travesty to burn our woods and thereby burn up the fertilizer nature has provided for us. We must enrich our soil every year instead of merely depleting it. It is fundamental that nature will drive away those who commit sin against it.

    Years   Land   Suffering  
  • Every time Bush talks about trust it makes chills run up and down my spine. The way he has trampled on the truth is a travesty of the American political system.

  • I want to deal with the homeless situation here in Washington, D.C. I think it is a travesty that we've got men - and increasingly women - families, across the street and the in shadow of this great capital, that shows a lack of concern, not just for the capital, but for American, when we are allowing something like that to happen.

    Men   Thinking   Shadow  
    Source: www.politico.com
  • Slavery destroys, or vitiates, or pollutes, whatever it touches. No interest of society escapes the influence of its clinging curse. It makes Southern religion a stench in the nostrils of Christendom; it makes Southern politics a libel upon all the principles of republicanism; it makes Southern literature a travesty upon the honorable profession of letters.

    George Fitzhugh, Hinton Rowan Helper (1960). “Ante-bellum writings of George Fitzhugh and Hinton Rowan Helper on slavery”
  • Rotten travesty. Yeah. Send me to jail for contempt. Try that. Go ahead.

    Jail   Trying   Rotten  
  • C++ is a ridiculously complicated travesty that few have the excess IQ points to understand enough not to screw up massively.

  • When I went to the Hall of Fame in 2000 and was inducted, it was a travesty the kind of carnage I saw out of these guys who were in their 50s and 60s, who had defined and in many ways laid the foundation for the NFL being what it is today.

    Nfl   Guy   Foundation  
  • In which year did a Harvard sculler last outrow an Oxford man at Henley?" Langdon had no idea, but he could imagine only one reason the question had been asked. "Surely such a travesty has never occurred.

    Men   Years   Oxford  
    Dan Brown (2004). “The Da Vinci Code”, Doubleday Books
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