| Both shared an interest in resisting the amoral libertarianism of bohemians and rationalists. |
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| She has been exposed as an amoral, unfeeling, self-serving, despicably conscience-less human being. |
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| It's a gritty, violent, amoral action thriller with plenty of twists and some surprisingly funny moments. |
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| Maybe the trouble is that I went to one of those amoral left-wing universities on the east coast. |
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| I'm not the only one either, who came here because they did something wrong or amoral or impure and is going to eternal damnation. |
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| The film has a young, amoral couple living amorously in Montreal and Toronto, unable to make ends meet. |
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| The goddess Nature is an amoral pagan personification, her laws harsh and ineluctable. |
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| A poetaster's aesthetic feathers had been ruffled, but his humanity, anemic and amoral, had remained unstirred, somnolent, and moribund. |
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| There is, in my mind, something uniquely amoral and corrosive about this kind of coldblooded infliction of pain. |
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| Who will follow their conscience when it conflicts with the demands of an amoral authority? |
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| The television can woo the young with superficial lifestyles, the internet can unload any kind of amoral slurry into their heads. |
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| Richard E. Grant is superb as the goggle-eyed, perpetually-wired, scarecrow-ish and amoral Withnail. |
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| I wonder if, in our efforts to make our society so moral, we have, in a way, become more amoral. |
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| A firm nexus has been established between amoral politicians, ambitious bureaucrats, unscrupulous businessmen and hardened criminals. |
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| He wrote a book called The Prince in which he described the amoral maneuvers and machinations of men in power. |
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| It makes for delightfully entertaining reading, in a sort of surreal and amoral sort of way. |
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| Widespread as it may be, it is nevertheless a way of thinking that is profoundly amoral, unethical and indeed barbaric. |
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| The majority of educated Americans believe that nature is the amoral scene of Darwinian struggle. |
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| Like other postmodern critics and theorists, he has been criticized as amoral and politically reactionary. |
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| They may well be venal, amoral egomaniacs, but the one thing you can pretty much guarantee is that they will be sharp-tongued. |
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| But I find it hard to get indignant about an amoral, egomaniacal novelist refusing to save the lives of two brutal killers. |
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| Ray is the sort of amoral lech we could never believe we'd ever fall for, right up until we're walking through the bedroom doors. |
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| An amoral society may have its advantages, but a fertile field for literary greatness is not one of them. |
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| Many think of companies as amoral, profit-hungry beasts that will do anything to promote their own selfish interests. |
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| In Viking days, there were probably mutterings about how mean and amoral life had become, what with all that raping, pillaging and so forth. |
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| May we change barbaric, vulgar, and amoral political behavior via the political aesthetic? |
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| It's taken a very amoral stand, in that essential issues are often portrayed as simply one side says this and the other side says that. |
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| Without such a standard we are condemned to live in a largely amoral world in which it is every man for himself and the devil take the hindmost. |
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| Why is the government still flogging this amoral deal that repudiates Canadian values? |
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| No decent person wants to worship an amoral conglomeration of technology. |
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| His amoral raconteur is the perfect foil for Kinnear's chillingly selfish dullard. |
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| Though Reynard is sly, amoral, cowardly, and self-seeking, he is still a sympathetic hero, whose cunning is a necessity for survival. |
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| It confirms that behind the bonhomie and the blond mop is an amoral politician. |
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| And if he fudges the issue, won't that undermine the vein of breezy, amoral irreverence usually so ubiquitous in his films? |
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| Distinct from amoral secular states are secular states that uphold freedom and equality. |
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| I never allowed them to tell on each other because I always felt it was amoral and not something I could approve. |
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| The small child we all start out as remains buried in our individual histories, along with amoral desires, rejections, amnesias and prohibitions. |
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| He questions moral and amoral, absurd and associative ideas and their impact on a body filled with speed, tension and great emotional tension. |
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| A non-custodial sentence might be hard to bear for the unfortunate householder who has had the sanctity of his home violated by some amoral toerag. |
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| But where that album moved with confidence and conviction of purpose, Control wallows in an amoral netherworld of overamped midtempo ballads and incomplete thoughts. |
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| Blame the African countries and the amoral people who go into the savannahs and the forests and slaughter the animals. |
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| I soon thought of this new and amoral cynicism as the most pernicious form of minstrelsy ever created and popularized. |
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| And if both women are more amoral and avaricious than Ma Joad and Mama Younger, well, so are we. |
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| All but the most extreme pacifists will admit of a case where it might be immoral or amoral not to use force, if not to defend oneself then to defend others. |
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| They are amoral whereas we have a choice to be moral or immoral. |
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| Bored, amoral and approaching middle age he has given up on life. |
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| The films featuring Marlene Dietrich add the paradox of the dazzling yet androgynous female who is simultaneously moral and amoral, eminently proper yet irredeemably decadent. |
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| Beneath a perfunctory veil of fiction, Keneally shows us a real-life tyrant exercising a power so absolute and unfeeling that it appears amoral, rather than immoral. |
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| What we end up with is a sequence with a very authentic feeling, something that could very well be the final moments in the life of some soulless, amoral moviemakers. |
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| What has looked to us to be healthy, roseate, and vigorous is, in fact, rotten, corrupt, and frequently amoral. |
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| Harlow is deliciously naughty and amoral as the unapologetic homewrecker, digging into her character's sexual voraciousness with a wink and a shrug and abundant good humor. |
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| Garfield's visceral acting and Shaw and Rossen's forceful screenplay compel us, perhaps against our will, to accept Jacob Goff as an amoral, compassionless chiseler. |
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| Both moral and amoral federalism inhere in Canada, but the former has been a cardinal feature of the Canadian Constitution since 1867, principally with reference to Quebec and its place in the federation. |
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| Others have argued that, rather than modern relationships being defined by an amoral individualism, in fact trust, reciprocity, and equality are defining characteristics of modern relationships. |
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| The justice stated that in reviewing the material and the defence of artistic merit that was afforded to this individual under our law, he had to examine the issue on a totally amoral basis. |
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| In this context, these trivial measures, on which we will abstain, are pathetic in their attempt to bring morality into a system that is essentially amoral and inhuman. |
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| That is because, in my respectful submission, trade is not amoral. |
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| The surprising and totally amoral choices made by the management of Eutelsat raise concerns as to whether the intentions of those in charge are purely business-orientated. |
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| Those who stoop to terrorism have an amoral mindset, capable of switching for tactical reasons to supposed commitment to political means if, for the time being, it better serves their purposes. |
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| But I would urge those individuals not to dismiss the people who proposed those policies as devoid of morality – or assume those policies are somehow amoral themselves. |
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| No, no more than all journalists are amoral hackers. |
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| There was a more nuanced view of globalisation, which has been blamed for everything from destroying jobs in Europe to emasculating national governments and playing into the hands of amoral multinational companies. |
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| And one of them is that amoral ambition is as American as apple pie and the Saturday Night Special. |
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| Unlike the idealistic knight-errant, however, the picaro is a cynical and amoral rascal who, if given half a chance, would rather live by his wits than by honourable work. |
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| The novel deals mainly with the interwoven fortunes of two women, the wellborn, passive Amelia Sedley and the ambitious, essentially amoral Becky Sharp, the latter perhaps the most memorable character Thackeray created. |
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| I can only suppose that King's millions of fans agree with him on the amoral, vicious, braindead disgustingness of their fellow Americans. |
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| Xboxers can stop whining about being left out of the most amoral and hyper-violent game of all time. |
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| Does Ruth have it coming because she has been amoral too? |
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| On the first view, emotions are purely biological phenomena.... They are arational and amoral, like other natural bodily functions. |
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| I found it an astounding statement to make for a learned justice of a superior court in Canada, in talking about the issue of exploitation of children, to say that we have to examine it on an amoral basis. |
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| The counterfeiting of medicines is the most serious and most amoral form of counterfeiting given that it endangers the health of millions of consumers. |
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| Which nearly 30 years later is not only absolutely meaningless but amoral. |
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| Any form of development that denied a direct creative action smacked as materialistic and amoral. |
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| Madam President, a regime which wantonly allows its own citizens to needlessly suffer in pursuit of its own xenophobic paranoia is not just amoral but evil, and sadly such a junta rules in Burma. |
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| That is, she has an amoral affectlessness, a serene indifference to the suffering of others, which she invites and dispassionately observes as tests of her power. |
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| American conservative critics, particularly in the 1960s and 1970s, saw Bond as a nihilistic, hedonistic, and amoral character that challenged family values. |
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