I'm not a babe in the woods, and I know very well that saying these things is taboo in American political culture. |
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All her words make my blood boil with jealousy and anger as she speaks the taboo. |
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Once taboo, birth control and family planning are quietly available to discreet couples. |
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I ask the question actors should never ask, the taboo, but like some awful knee-jerk reaction it slips out. |
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Contrary to today's popular mythology about our past, slavery and exploitation were not taboo subjects then. |
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Its leader is a surreal portrait of art-school eccentricity, a social maverick up to his neck in the shifting sands of taboo and faux pas. |
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Previously taboo areas were opened for examination, and laws and legal attitudes were modified. |
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Somehow, wearing a taboo word on your shirt is all right, as long as it's written in some way bassackwards. |
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But the key words in understanding swearing, as opposed to coarse language or mere profanity, are taboo and shock. |
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What is called as deviant behaviour by the majority of the society is so much of a taboo that we do not even acknowledge the existence of it. |
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However, just a few decades ago, the mere mention of weight training was taboo in a lot of the popular sports. |
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Information and counseling on once taboo subjects are now freely available, yet traditional mores still predominate. |
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Anyone who contravenes the taboo against making historical comparisons brings a moral death sentence down on himself. |
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The idea that all furries are doing something taboo was perpetuated in news media reports last fall. |
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For many it is a taboo subject which leaves people feeling isolated and vulnerable. |
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The taboo against miscegenation underpinned many of these negative colonial representations. |
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But public humiliation has become taboo at work, indicting the humiliator more than the humiliated. |
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Raising a monument to the memory of the deceased at the place where his dead body is cremated is taboo. |
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It's just that our society is now quickly turning body fat into a taboo, somewhere below incest and patricide. |
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The clown, the early counterpart of the trickster, would have in ritual the role of evoking the violation of taboo, hypostasized in myth. |
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No subject is taboo, and there is no subject so gross, so obnoxious, so embarrassing, it cannot be paraded in front of everyone. |
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But whether it should be taboo even to discuss such issues, as some are arguing, is another question. |
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Illness in African society is often attributed to the breaking of a taboo or machinations of malicious or sometimes displeased ancestral spirits. |
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One senses that no one is paying a blind bit of attention, for the affairs of the province are as taboo in British society as coprophagy. |
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On a day for women, culturally taboo subjects like female sexuality can be openly acknowledged. |
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But his live show is much more casually cruel, and no matter how sensitive a subject, nothing is taboo for his one-liners. |
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Certain subjects are taboo, or too emotive to be examined with objectivity. |
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Our culture has become distinctly sexualised over the past 20 years, and subjects that were once taboo are now openly discussed. |
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Smoking indoors had already become a taboo long before government created laws forbidding it. |
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As a writer, he comes across as someone who feels that by trumpeting loudly about a taboo subject he is breaking down social barriers. |
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Al-Jazeera gives air-time to their Arab leaders' opponents and to ordinary viewers and discusses taboo political and social topics. |
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As they saw it, many details concerning clan histories and taboo places have been forgotten over the past few generations. |
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I mean it doesn't mean that I want to be rude, it's not that, it's just that you go to certain spaces that are taboo. |
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Not only taboo places but also mountain tops were known to be frequented by spirits. |
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Totems of specific clans, healers, or royal dynasties are taboo to certain members of some ethnic groups. |
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Almost all animal flesh is edible and nutritious, yet most human societies taboo many of the animal species available to them. |
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It is strictly taboo for anyone to eat the meat from an animal that is his or her totem. |
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Within taboo and transgression the interplay between the profane and the sacred is a dangerous one. |
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To break the taboo against suicide would be a sure sign of societal breakdown. |
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The incest taboo means the absolute prohibition upon sexual relations between people related by blood. |
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Season three has degenerated to a point where they are just trying to break any taboo they can, and it's getting a little old. |
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One wonders if in the morass of cultural relativism, the only sane ground is to eschew all taboo. |
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Ritual, law, and taboo are nothing but the institutional edifice of sclerotic priests. |
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Still distraught over her shortness with him, he reminded her that the days of divorce being taboo were long gone. |
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Like mentioning a certain Scottish play in the theatre, or whistling on a Peterhead fishing boat, it's taboo. |
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During the Civil War, hungry Northern soldiers, unaware of the social taboo surrounding peanuts, began eating them. |
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It was a programme, on after the watershed, exploring why certain things are taboo and social reactions, after all. |
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So hallowed was the grain, that it was taboo to plant any other crop in the rice fields. |
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Even what was supposed to be the ultimate taboo, murder, has been demystified and wanders our streets aimlessly every other weekend. |
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The use of repetitions and taboo words in text is pretty much a direct reflection of their use in speech. |
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Sadly, the most easily-attainable sources for iodine are iodized salt and sea products, both of which can be taboo for pregnant women. |
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It is becoming a taboo habit now and there are far more non-smokers than puffers. |
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No doubt people will recall that once it was long, shoulder-length hair that was taboo in the classroom. |
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Because of the taboo associated with this topic no real dialogue can take place. |
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Until we get rid of the taboo of simply talking about it, we're not going anywhere. |
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They were talked into using ground beef, which back then was a little taboo. |
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The members of one clan from northern Kenya observe a taboo on eating fish. |
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To talk favourably of the Enlightenment has become something of a taboo in recent years. |
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Of course, the subject matter is about as taboo as it gets, after all, this is a comedy about conjoined twins. |
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In many families naming tarantism was taboo, reflecting this ambiguity between condemnation and belief. |
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Many of the Kanak whom I interviewed unequivocally demonstrated anxiety regarding taboo places and associated ancestors. |
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For Novo, an urban chronicle must represent the city in its entirety and must include previously taboo and transgressive urban activities and spaces. |
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Would it have revealed a sensual side to Lincoln that has become a taboo subject, and that is much too difficult to document? |
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Is there a taboo against the use of weapons of mass destruction? |
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The court cases have undoubtedly had the merit of removing the taboo over reporting excision by the populations concerned and among doctors, social workers, etc. |
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The breakdown of the politically correct liberal open-mindedness into frenzied intolerance of criticism and the taboo of peace was dramatic and instantaneous. |
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The incident drew national media attention and ignited a public debate over the ancient taboo of black men having sexual relations with white women. |
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The fact that the subject is taboo also means that a man who is traumatized by the experience may be retraumatized again and again, with each child born to him. |
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As society engages in dialogue on these issues no subject will be taboo. |
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In front of the big screen this behaviour is generally considered taboo. |
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It is difficult for us today to give due weight to taboo factors. |
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Mechanical hay balers widely used in some areas are taboo in others. |
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The taboo lies with them, certainly not we quiveringly sexual beings. |
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For two days, women held forth on a subject long considered taboo. |
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The audience who does not know her works, were also surprised because she intrepidly presented something that previously was considered taboo or at least controversial. |
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Probably the closest thing to a taboo young people have these days will relate to the wearing of a wrong designer label or listening to a Cliff Richard record. |
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If incest, the ultimate taboo, has indeed been broken, then the stakes for avenging the wrong, cleansing the community, and restoring order and stability, cannot be stronger. |
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After all, this is more indirect than bleeping taboo words is. |
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Senior officials normally observe a longstanding political taboo by skirting around such tales of torment. |
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Considering the penchant Canadian filmmakers have for taboo sexual subjects, it was only a matter of time before a Canadian movie was set in a massage parlour. |
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One step closer to turning the tide of the addiction taboo that operates like well-oiled spin machine. |
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I urged lazar to get his eyes back on the road, if indeed he could see it, and asked why the subject was taboo. |
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In 1888 he contributed articles on taboo and totemism to the Encyclopaedia Britannica, which laid the foundation for his work on primitive religion. |
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Certain gestures are taboo, your shirt tail has to be tucked in, your chin strap has to be fastened, and they tell you what kind of shoes to wear. |
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Well, that really ruined the moment for her especially, and made me feel really horrible for a long time, and caused dirty talk to become a kind of taboo for me. |
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Alcohol dulls the brain, reduces reaction time and the law says very clearly that drinking and driving with a certain amount of it in your bloodstream is taboo. |
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Common cursing achieves its desired result in part by breaking that taboo whereas execratory cursing conveys its force through its literal propositions. |
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The suggestion that birth and motherhood are almost as taboo as death in our society, would, as like as not, be met with guffaws of disbelief in mixed company. |
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However the taboo has been secretly broken by some sangomas such as Hlengiwe. |
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For the first time, Hitchcock allowed nudity and profane language, which had previously been taboo, in one of his films. |
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The otter is held to be a clean animal belonging to Ahura Mazda in Zoroastrian belief, and taboo to kill. |
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Consumption of beef is taboo, due to cows being considered sacred in Hinduism. |
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For species such as marlin, muskellunge, and bass, there is a cultural taboo among anglers against taking them for food. |
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Sacred areas taboo from human entry to fishing and hunting are known by many ancient cultures worldwide. |
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Crocodiles were eaten by Vietnamese while they were taboo and off limits for Chinese. |
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For decades after the Second World War, any national symbol or expression was a taboo. |
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In Scotland similar accusations surround the supposed cultural taboo concerning pork. |
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It is eaten in many parts of the world, though consumption is taboo in some cultures, and a subject of political controversy in others. |
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Not among retailers for whom collecting and recording ZIP codes is now strictly taboo and certainly not if you consider the broader implications. |
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She said education and political activity was almost a taboo the women in a society that set store by primitive traditions. |
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There are many women and teenagers deprived of basic knowledge about menstrual cycle and in some places it is considered a social taboo. |
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The Middle Ages brought a new way of thinking and a lessening on the taboo of dissection. |
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Regifting is generally regarded as taboo, but is this practice really as offensive to the original giver as people think? |
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Facing the product of the women's lib movement square in the face, Burke's documentary delves into the taboo. |
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Our culture is becoming more open-minded about previously taboo subjects. |
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He could, moreover, no longer be tempted to the Grubber, for all chocolate and sweets were taboo. |
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In northernmost Sweden, the word lapp is in use and not seen as derogatory or taboo. |
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In general, there is no taboo against eating horse meat in Nordic countries, but the popularity has decreased with decreasing availability of suitable horse meat. |
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Vietnamese women who married Chinese men adopted the Chinese taboo. |
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Recalcitrants who violate the PC taboo are likely to be subjected to a media keelhauling and accused of intolerance, racism, bigotry, and insensitivity. |
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This middle section also includes a chapter by George Quester on the nuclear taboo and how the sixty-five-year pattern of non-use could be disrupted. |
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This kinship detection system in turn affects other genetic predispositions such as the incest taboo and a tendency for altruism towards relatives. |
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This ever-growing list of forbidden words and taboo subjects, drawn up by Liu Binjie and his army of censors, starves the nation's soul and encages the minds of writers. |
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But his stridency and his abusiveness, particularly of the pathetic Miss Taboo, brings him perilously close to being just another cartoonish Evil Queen. |
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Bissette's publication Taboo, was stopped when the anthology itself was discontinued. |
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What performer, at Taboo on Wednesday, has the yuckiest mouth this week? |
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Various paper zines on constructed languages were published from the 1970s through the 1990s, such as Glossopoeic Quarterly, Taboo Jadoo, and The Journal of Planned Languages. |
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In 2017, Hardy stars in the BBC One television drama series Taboo. |
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