This belittling of Christ--His life and work and influence--shows that a spirit antagonistic to Christ really animates the Bahai leaders, in spite of their professions to the contrary.
Another misrepresentation of history, which is universal among Bahais, is in belittling the plot to assassinate Nasr-ud-Din Shah in 1852.
The greatest poets of the century are not in the habit of belittling themselves.
In her case, unlike that of the ordinary lover, the new passion does not involve the repudiation or belittling of the one before.
The next critic of note, Dryden, in his revulsion from the ascetic character which the puritans would develop in the poet, swung too far to the other extreme, and threw the poetic character out of balance by belittling its spiritual insight.
Conscious of the temporary inferiority of woman, an inferiority traceable to centuries of neglect and belittling patronage, the Feminists propose to increase woman's power by making her fitter for power.
Now, as some of my readers may know, I do not make a habit of belittling woman and her work.
I know how galling it is when friends come and imagine that they can console us by smoothing over or belittling our griefs.
She judged everything by her own lofty standard, but strange to say, instead of belittling men, this seemed to make them appear better.
American edition of his autobiography, to belittling Bosco, a conjurer whose popularity all over Europe was long-lived.
Reproduction of Hogarth's engraving entitled "Taste," belittlingthe artistic taste of London.
But in the long run when the belittling process is fully carried out nations will disappear.
The reader must have haunted the bureaus of the ministerial departments before he can realize how much their petty and belittling life resembles that of seminaries.
But, since die he must, he must die not belittling or tarnishing the name of Tanville-Tankerton.
Oxford walls have a way of belittling us; and the Duke was loth to regard his doom as trivial.
We object here to the tendency of belittling the human mind.
She found the grandeur of the room belittling to the small party at table.
This belittling of certain pictures in favour of others, with its inevitable inference, offended him, in the end as in the beginning.
And in reply to a murmur during the trial-experiences of parish work, when I “deplored the effect of these belittlingcares and petty commonplaces upon my intellectual growth,” the caressing hand was laid against my hot cheek.
She knew now why she had made a habit of belittling and criticizing him to herself: she had been defending herself against him.
In fine, she reminded herself twenty times a day of some reason for belittling to her own mind her cousin's betrothed, and concealed from herself that she belittled him.
Jules Simon, "is a ludicrous form of education whose every effort is an act of faith tacitly admitting the infallibility of the master, and whose only results are a belittling of ourselves and a rendering of us impotent.
These modifications are dependent on the nature of the crowds, or of the race to which the crowds belong, but their tendency is always belittling and in the direction of simplification.
Not so the Times, privately very anxious as to what Sherman's campaign portended, while publicly belittling it.
Footnote 442: Among the communications were several on international law points by "Historicus," answering and belittling American legal argument.
Editorially it attacked Bright's position, belittling the speech for having been made at the one "inconspicuous" place where the orator would be sure of a warm welcome, and asking why Manchester or Liverpool had not been chosen.
But complicating her problem is not the only injury she does her cause by this ignoring or belittling of woman's part in civilization.
Quite as great an injustice to her as thebelittling of her business has been the practice, also for campaigning purposes, of denying her a part in the upbuilding of civilization.
When he sat denouncing in silence the talkers around him, ridiculing and belittling them, it was merely a less painful outlet for the contempt he had of himself.
He would sit belittling and ridiculing the company to himself until he had hypnotized himself with a conviction of their general worthlessness and inferiority.
The belittling view of men in power fits best our self-esteem.
It was a strange and not altogether exhilarating experience for me; but I had afterward to learn that the belittling view of Lincoln was the common one among public men in Washington.
Oh, madam, can I go about with the modest cough of a minor poet, belittling my inspiration and making the mightiest wonder of your reign a thing of nought?
Indeed hero-worshippers have never forgiven him for belittling Caesar and failing to see that side of his assassination which made Goethe denounce it as the most senseless of crimes.
III It is an amusing library, as Philadelphians may believe now they are getting over the bad habit into which they had fallen of belittling their town, much in their town's fashion of belittling them.
Wherever one goes in Vitre one sees the fine old chateau, forming a magnificent background to every picture, with its grand ivy-mantled towers and its huge battlemented walls, belittling everything round it.
This was Nature at her biggest and best, belittling everything one had ever seen or was likely to see, making one feel small and insignificant.
Peter inferred some belittling of Osmond, and immediately he was at one with him and market-gardening.
It seemed belittlinghim even to withdraw into the coverts of ordinary talk, and, if she wanted his testimony, to surprise it out of him by stale devices.
The fourth gospel, although written much later, ignores the belief in the virgin birth, and even seems to do so of set purpose as belittling and materialising the truth.
