In recent decades, with the discovery of the Gnostic gospels, we have been told once again that the Church silenced competing voices — covered up the fact that some early Christian communities may have had far more stringent requirements than Rome, that they deplored the world, that they routinely had visions.
In recent decades, with the discovery of the Gnostic gospels, we have been told once again that the Church silenced competing voices covered up the fact that some early Christian communities may have had far more stringent requirements than Rome, that they deplored the world, that they routinely had visions.
The song's lyrics are sung from the perspective of God, who deplores the world He created.
Tom may deplore the existence of an eye-searing world "lit by lightning".
Ever since the Yankees won the World Series, I have been receiving messages from fans around the world deploring the domination by New York and its cable television swag.
But of course these people don't have the opportunity to write editorials deploring the current state of the world.
But one wonders what might have been, if the Russians had never crushed the Hungarian uprising of 1956 (while the world was busy deploring the Suez invasion), and if Vilmos and his lifelong best friend and fellow cinematographer Lázsló Kovács hadn't filmed the invasion and fled the country with 30 cans of raw footage three weeks after the clampdown.
Last year Mr. Fairey's street art in New York was defaced by the Splasher, a paint-slinging detractor, and a pamphlet deploring the commercialization of the art world was distributed by an unknown group at a reception for "E Pluribus Venom".
And millions of people will buy bottled water while deploring the state of the third world, and not feel the hypocrisy leaking from every pore.
Emerging giants are able to criticise the management of the world economy without having to do anything about it (for example, deploring the failure to complete the Doha round of world trade talks without offering to break the logjam).
