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.
It is a travesty of true religion to consider one's own religion as superior and other's as inferior.
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.
I really feel like it's a travesty to make a child famous. I really do.
Not only does a lens distort forms, but the ordinary plate makes an unholy mess of colour in its tone relations. Yellow becomes black, and blue white. Black sunflowers against a white sky - what a travesty!
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.
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.
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.
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. . .
That's what goalkeeping is all about. It's really having nothing to do at times, and then having to make sure you are concentrating and ready to make the save when called upon. Going in 1-0 down would have been a travesty.
To equate a corporation with a person is a travesty of justice.
Rotten travesty. Yeah. Send me to jail for contempt. Try that. Go ahead.
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.
If I put myself on the ballot and even 50 people voted for me, it'd be a travesty.
To compare Whitewater to Watergate is a travesty.
