Chris Willman of Entertainment Weekly named the song as his favorite addition to the deluxe edition of B'Day, stating, "Better is 'Flaws and All', a ballad in which B[eyoncé] expresses melismatic gratitude that workaholic bitches (her words!) merit love too".
Its story, after all, hews to one of the top five movie plots: a self-centered, basically decent guy confronts his self-centeredness, affirming his basic decency and thus meriting the love of the woman he had driven away.
Dolezal's actions are the acceptance of a hierarchy of identities that are more deserving of merit, love, the visible acknowledgment of pain, validity, the pursuit of happiness and access to wealth and opportunity.
In the paradigm case of God's love for us, agape is "spontaneous and unmotivated," revealing not that we merit that love but that God's nature is love (Nygren 1953b, p. 85).
These children begin to assume that this merit-tangled love is the natural order of the universe.
Last year's contest attracted 4,300 elementary and high school students, who sent in either drawings or 500-word essays contemplating the merits of love and hate.
Countries are too big, complex, and diverse -- and potentially dangerous -- to merit unqualified love.
Yankee fans have developed a love-hate relationship with Rodriguez, with his every move meriting their attention.
And I do believe in the merits of loving myself!
All the days spent away from home, all the hours spent slaving at the coalface, all the minutes spent craving the warmth of our loved-ones surely merit something approaching comfortable travel?
Whatever merit, blame, praise, love, or hate we receive as beings with a particular past and a particular constitution, we are always and everywhere due equal respect merely as persons.
