"Michael Stipe once said you shouldn't wear sunglasses on stage because it demonstrates disrespect for your audience," said Matt Berninger, lead singer of Brooklyn-based rockers The National.
For example, a summons for disorderly conduct would not preclude a candidate from being accepted into the force, but repeated convictions for an offense that demonstrated "disrespect for the law" could result in disqualification.
Those readers had a right to their opinion, but I wonder how they or other Red Sox fans feel now that Ramirez has demonstrated disrespect for his teammates by refusing to play when they needed him, and worse, has asked out in the middle of a division race that could determine the team's ability to get back to the World Series to defend its championship.
Set aside, for a moment, the fact that Trump has repeatedly demonstrated disrespect for people of color, and suggested that they should be grateful to live in America at all.
You can demonstrate disrespect with your nonverbal behavior even as you're trying to validate the person with your words.
Trump demonstrates disrespect where gratitude would be more appropriate.
To do crummy science is to show disrespect for those people.
Collins: There are people on that list whom I could not support, because I believe that they have demonstrated a disrespect for the vital principle of stare decisis, which as Chief Justice [John G. Roberts Jr.] has said, is a fundamental principle of our judicial system that promotes even handedness and stability.
But what President Duterte said is not only profoundly inhumane, but it demonstrates an appalling disrespect for human life that is truly heartbreaking for the democratically elected leader of a great country".
But one cannot embrace the "culture of life" while advocating capital punishment or waging an unjust war, particularly when demonstrating an appalling disrespect for the lives of Muslim innocents by choosing to wage that war in their own backyard.
Moreover, any utterance that demonstrates a willful disrespect for external, supposedly objective moral/ethical standards and principles of truth-verification can be received as an act of faith in the inner-worldly community, a sign, or sacrament, of mystical union.
