In a country of backbiters, she has made remarkably few enemies.
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Letter of Recommendation Viewed in the least charitable terms, academia is a small fraternity of ambitious backbiters engaged in the production of work so dense that only other members of the order can hope to understand it.
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We may never know whether the leak about Mr. Kushner's bizarre proposal of "backchannel" contacts with Russian diplomats came from law enforcement officials, backbiters at the White House or just Mr. Kushner's loose-lipped friends on the cocktail circuit.
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If you wait for all the bickerers, backbiters, and foot draggers to come to accord, you'll never get anything done.
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Bodea, pp. 50–51 Privately, he expressed his dislike for the patronage, noting that Ghica-Comănești and the others had surrendered the Society to "backbiters".Bodea, p.
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"Gossip in the New Testament." The New Testament in Cross-Cultural Perspective. Eugene: Cascade Books. Of course, this does not mean that there are not numerous texts in the New Testament that see gossip as dangerous negative speech. Thus, for example, the Epistle to the Romans associates gossips ("backbiters") with a list of sins including sexual immorality and with murder: > :28: And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God > gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not > convenient; :29: Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, > wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, > deceit, malignity; whisperers, :30: Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, > proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, :31: > Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, > implacable, unmerciful: :32: Who knowing the judgment of God, that they > which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have > pleasure in them that do them.
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If I shall do to the contrary, I subject myself thenceforward, > as if it were now, to all the penalties of the law against relapsed > heretics, recusants, seditious offenders, traitors, backbiters, sycophants, > who have been openly convicted, and also to those ordained against > perjurers. I submit myself also to arbitrary correction, whether by the > Archbishop of Trier or by any other magistrates under whom it may befall me > to dwell, and who may he certified of my relapse and of my broken faith, > that they may punish me according to my deserts, in honor and reputation, > property and person. In testimony of all which I have, with my own hand, > signed this my recantation of the aforesaid articles, in presence of notary > and witnesses. (Signed) CORNELIUS LOOSÆUS CALLIDIUS.
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