The Compromised Researcher by Gabriele Griffin

“…Compromise, here used in its pejorative sense, may for instance occur in terms of one’s research topic, the methods one utilizes, or the participants chosen for a study. …”
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"The Cult of the Diva" – Rufus Wainwright as Opera Queen by Oliver C. E. Smith

“…By drawing on his own relationship with opera, Wainwright exploits the right this gives him by reinterpreting cultural history, and revising the pejorative stereotype that is an opera queen.…”
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Portrait du Polonais en personnage secondaire ou la fabrique littéraire du stéréotype dans les lettres belges francophones by Przemyslaw Szczur

“…Analysant les principaux stéréotypes au sujet des Polonais, il en constate la teneur essentiellement péjorative, mais les considère surtout comme un outil de vraisemblabilisation de l’univers représenté.…”
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De l’idéal démocratique. Les Anciens et les Modernes by Stamatios Tzitzis

“…The current post-historical era that we live in has transformed the transmission of national heritage into a pejorative term, due to humanity‘s commitment to a vague conception of democracy without any specific content and a vast number of subjective rights of uncertain efficacy. …”
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Construction of Populism: Meanings Given to Populism in the Nordic Press by Herkman Juha

“…In the study of the use of populism in the British press the conclusion was that the term was used more or less explicitly in a pejorative way, although uses of the term varied and had no consistent logic. …”
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Book Review - Bentham’s Theory Of Fictions by Gary Lilienthal

“…There is a still a tendency among practising lawyers to speak in pejorative tones about the study of jurisprudence. This tendency may be an indicium of a failure to understand the law’s underlying reasoning, and instead, to prefer the law’s cultus,3 manifesting as fraud and abuse of legislative power. …”
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Populism as an Essentially Contested Concept or: On the Dangers of Centrism by Hans Marius Hansteen

“…The term «populism» is most often used polemically, and notably as a pejorative term, denoting an actual or potential threat to democracy. …”
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Návrat „domů“: přistěhovalecké vlny do Arménie po druhé světové válce by Petra Košťálová

“…After 1956, the majority of repatriates returned to their original host countries; those who remained in Armenia are (even after several generations) called by the pejorative term akhpar.…”
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ПОЭТИКА И СКМАНТИЧЕСКОЕ ПРОСТРАНСТВО ПАРЕМИЙ СОВЕТСКОГО ВРЕМЕНИ by ЯРОСЛАВ БЕЖБИНЬСКИ

“…They used to have positive connotations whereas nowadays they are being perceived as pejorative expressions. …”
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Emotionsausdruck: Kontextspezifische und situativbedingte Zuschreibungen von negativen Eigenschaften in einigen Zeitungsartikeln der ADZ für Rumänien: Dragnea & Co und das Prekaria... by Adriana Dănilă

“…For this reason, the paper takes into consideration the pejorative depiction of the sociological category precariat and of the Romanian governing party PSD (social democratic party). …”
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Reproduction, deconstruction, imagination by Lukas Bäuerle

“…Findings: Whereas reproducing relies on a largely unconscious passing on of economic interpretation schemes, deconstructing them fosters their pejorative penetration. Imagining aims at the development of new interpretation schemes that allow for economic thinking and action in resonance with a tangible life-world. …”
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Ancestral Religious Recognition an Effort to Build Indonesia without Discrimination by Achmad Tijani

“…As a consequence, there arises a pejorative narrative in all its forms to those outside the official state religions. …”
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Une esthétique postmoderne : l’esprit kitsch dans The Grand Budapest Hotel (Wes Anderson, 2014) by Pierre Beylot

“…Is the epithet always pejorative or can it be fully claimed? This article recalls some of the works to which the notion of kitsch gave rise in the fields of art history and cultural industries; it then addresses the questions raised by kitsch in cinema through the example of The Grand Budapest Hotel (Wes Anderson, 2014). …”
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Language Colonization and English Hybridization: The Use of Irish English Lexis in Twentieth Century Irish Drama by Luppi, Fabio

“…By taking into account Irish English terms in a selection of Anglo-Irish plays (with particular focus on the titles), this paper examines the lexical choices that contribute to rendering cultural, geographical and political meanings – some of which are derogatory, patronizing and pejorative. The conclusion, with reference to Brian Friel’s Translations, reflects on the implications of the dominance of English in Ireland following its replacement of Irish Gaelic. …”
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The jellyfish’s pleasures: philebus 20b-21d by O’Reilly, KR

“…<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p>Scholars have characterised the trial of the life of pleasure in <jats:italic>Philebus</jats:italic> 20b-21d as digressive or pejorative. I argue that it is neither: it is a thought experiment containing an important argument, in the form of a <jats:italic>reductio</jats:italic>, of the hypothesis that a life could be most pleasant without cognition. …”

The Art of ‘Cooking’ a Pasticcio: Musical Recipes and Ingredients for Pasticcio Operas by Over Berthold

“…Despite the rather pejorative implications that the musical pasticcio has today, it may have been an appreciated art form in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. …”
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Like Marginalia in the Canon of the Oppressors: Critical Theorizing at the Margin and Attempts for Redemptive Alternatives by Renz M. Villacampa

“…This tends to produce a pejorative image of the marginalized as incapable of self-determination. …”
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A politikailag korrekt nyelv használata a magyarországi és erdélyi online sajtóban by Barabás Blanka

“…Since language is one of the most basic ways to take a stand, to transmit values, the ideology of political correctness first tries to eliminate the use of pejorative elements from language. Although print media is slowly moving to the online sphere, the authors of articles are still journalists, who through their work can shape society. …”
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Fear and Anxiety before Barbarians. Ammianus Marcellinus and the Persians by Gabriel SANZ CASASNOVAS

“…Furthermore, Ammianus attributes a Scythian origin to the Persians, and he represents them as barbarians throught pejorative vocabulary and degrading hetero-images.…”
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Russia in the global hydrocarbon economy by S N Lavrov, B G Dyakin

“…These slogans are widely used in anti-Russian rhetoric, especially by those opponents who, giving them a pejorative character, try to show the innovative backwardness of our “resource” economy in comparison with the technologically advanced economies of the developed countries of the West. …”
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