Like their contemporaries in the press, the schoolroom, and elsewhere, literary writers helped to construct Irish-Americans as innately depraved. |
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While I escaped his lecherous depraved mauling, other young men were not so lucky. |
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According to this model, conversion is seen as a momentous transformation of life from a depraved past to a sacred present and a promised future. |
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Marcus Aurelius, a pretty decent Caesar as Caesars go, could not pass a law against his depraved son, Commodus. |
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It isn't the first time he has shown a depraved indifference toward responsibility, and sadly, it may not be the last. |
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Now that they terrorise, murder, and, frankly, slaughter innocent children, we are at the most depraved end of the spectrum of all. |
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Which is an act of war and defense and which is an act of depraved inhumanity? |
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And what I draw from it is that this is a man with a depraved heart and a complete disregard for human life. |
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They are sick and depraved and have convinced themselves they are right and the rest of us are wrong. |
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Keith specialised in depraved characters who committed acts of extreme brutality while sermonising on the virtues of a good and moral life. |
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For the less shockable audience of today, particularly one with a core of depraved Oxford students, this play presses all the right buttons. |
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No matter how corrupt and depraved it is in practice, the organisation's sunny utopian image endures. |
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We're not this weird, cranky, fanged minority that is secretly drinking blood in the name of its depraved godlessness! |
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For several years he himself has been voluntarily living in a depraved state. |
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As her reliance on the townspeople grows, they make increasingly depraved demands on the woman. |
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Inevitably, you must wonder whether barbarism is the natural condition of man let loose, or the depraved state of man when corrupted by violence. |
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Interesting, cos they are not portrayed as a tight, likeable team, but a nest of corruption and depraved power-to-commerce cynicism. |
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He never had any time for such fripperies and actively discouraged us kids from wasting our pocket money in such a depraved manner. |
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But somehow or other we have to attempt to understand the origins of this depraved, evil behaviour. |
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There are some sick, sick people in this world and I do not want to be part of their quest to find the depraved things they are looking for. |
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Someone who can, in all deliberateness, actually give forth that depraved statement would do well, truly, to reconsider or shut up. |
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The depraved plot is shot with a schizophrenic camera incorporating elements of peepshows, montage and silent horror films amongst others. |
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Sometimes you encounter leftist paranoia so utterly deranged, so shamelessly depraved, you don't know wether to laugh or cry. |
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It certainly isn't because I want to turn my innocent little children into depraved chocoholics. |
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And he finishes with the sort of depraved casuistry he is always so eager to spot in his opponents. |
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But deep within this depraved human being is a need for cohesion and clarity. |
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It was detailed and depraved, a plot to hide bombs in baby buggies in the New York subways. |
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Girls stand to learn more from flawed pop princesses than from wholly depraved or squeaky-clean ones. |
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The most vulnerable members of our society fall victim to the repulsive and detestable warlords and gang masters who conceal their depraved activity behind closed doors. |
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Many who did believe were influenced by the heresy of Jansenism, which taught that human nature is depraved and that Jesus died to save only a chosen few. |
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We also face the depraved phenomenon of applications for patents on living organisms and human genomes. |
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Possession occurs on a larger scale and the nature of the material is more depraved than a decade ago. |
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It is no mere ideal, but is strong in the hearts of all except the most depraved. |
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There was always part of him that gloried in his reputation as a lady-killer, the sinful, depraved Don Juan. |
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It clearly is a distorted action of depraved and distorted minds, people who are misguided and who perhaps have been brainwashed in various ways. |
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But the worshippers and admirers of these gods delight in imitating their scandalous iniquities, and are nowise concerned that the republic be less depraved and licentious. |
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Feeling suddenly mortal, the old curmudgeon decides to accept the depraved offer made many years before by his longtime madam. |
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Victorian pastors tried to save them from a nomadic lifestyle that they considered depraved. |
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He believed that most human beings are innately depraved, steeped in original sin, and unable to better themselves with their feeble reason. |
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I find clean many of those who accuse themselves before Me, but there are many that proclaim their cleanliness who I find depraved and guilty. |
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I was picked solely for the sexually depraved gratification of the sisters, of those two I named. |
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Locating the action in the dark recesses of Ian's mind, his depraved fantasy-land becomes the symbolical epicentre of mankind's propensity toward evil. |
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He claimed that the book had depraved him, but it transpired that he had only read it because he had been asked to appear as a witness for the prosecution. |
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Be prepared to be asked to engage in all sorts of depraved activities. |
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Such a universally useful item should not be regarded as depraved. |
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The general opinion in these cases was that the people involved were sick, depraved losers who got what they deserved, were a menace to society etcetera, etcetera. |
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The image of children being disposed of in such a barbaric and depraved manner outraged people across the world. |
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They seem to be something more like a brief interlude between his early acts of violence and their later, depraved culmination. |
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Apart from the odd murder, armed robbery, and depraved party, it's mostly sitting around bleakly decorated social clubs, playing gin rummy and eating. |
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The latter two are deviously funny as perverts, self-aggrandising but insecure bounty hunters, game-show-host-styled hangmen, and lords and ladies of the depraved aristocracy. |
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Redemption is a grand education by providence, restoring all souls to their original blessedness, for none, not even Satan, is so depraved and has so lost rationality and freedom as to be beyond redemption. |
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They were not necessarily all that depraved, according to a certain Sieur Le Beau who, in 1729, was surprised to discover a former school chum among a contingent being shipped to Canada. |
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Italy is taking action which is producing some initial results, but the European Union must put great pressure on the countries of origin and transit, because Europe cannot tolerate this depraved traffic in human beings. |
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The CIA has a penchant for such hilarious and sometimes depraved schemes. |
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He can even live in luxury and does not get depraved by it. |
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The apocalypticists had become convinced that the world was so depraved that God would have to destroy the old world and create a new one. |
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It's Beni's first big love story, and he lives it with such devotion, that he stoops to becoming the slave of his depraved boyfriend, even working the street to the bills and finance Fögi's drug habit. |
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Can you match the star to his or her depraved actions in the film? |
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God could have annihilated the world with its depraved, proud and greedy men who unceasingly spread everywhere their errors which bring about corruption, disasters and wars. |
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Or was her pretty face a mask, a duplicitous cover for a depraved soul? |
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While sin is viewed as the disruption or breakdown of an original harmony in an existing relationship, it nevertheless reveals its depraved face in concrete particular actions and gestures. |
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Fashion, the parasite of Rank, apeth faults and failings, Until the general Taste depraved hath warped its sense of beauty. |
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How many criminals do I see enjoying liberty and the respect of the world, and to how many of the depraved have you raised monuments in reverence to their memory? |
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It reveals the most depraved and sadistic intent. |
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The law encourages depraved vigilante attacks. |
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Even depraved Japan claims to have no desire to hunt the great whales to extinction. Some anti-whalers appear to be in deep denial about these facts. |
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Tom Chaney is a depraved man who kills for no good reason.... Chaney has a powder burn on his face. |
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It's just stripped down to its depraved and destructive core. |
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Scenes satirizing depraved monks and insulting the gentry, a domestic triangle, and Buddhist prayers for the dead appear to be adapted from masked plays. |
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Then came the tidal wave of drugs, specifically heroin, and what had once been a haven for male alcoholics became a pangender hole-in-the-wall hideout for depraved junkies. |
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