The cardinal sin was insincerity, two-facedness, of appearing to be one thing while actually being another. |
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Apart from anything else, this secretiveness adds up to the cardinal sin of security by obscurity. |
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One could settle for the same old brand every time, but to get stuck in a fragrance rut is a cardinal sin. |
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One of the most popular presidents in recent memory is about to commit a cardinal sin. |
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Admittedly he is inclined to forget things like birthdays, but that's not a cardinal sin, not in my book, anyway. |
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Too much of it is loose, self-indulgent and, the cardinal sin of political comedy, badly researched. |
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Such reticence, of course, is a cardinal sin in a media world that worships the gods of celebrity and fame. |
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Apparently, choosing a place name, when not one member of the group actually hail from it, is something of a cardinal sin. |
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I'd like to beg your collective indulgences while I commit the cardinal sin of bringing too much of the reviewer into the review. |
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The cardinal sin in scientific communication is vagueness, not bad grammar. |
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Traveling alone is seen as sad and desperate, a cardinal sin, reserved for those social pariahs who talk to their cats. |
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I had committed the cardinal sin of pride and this was my punishment. |
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True to form, I committed a cardinal sin by ordering a side order of chips, and then spent a guilt-ridden lunch eating them with mayonnaise and ketchup. |
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And it's to be classified as a scrounger – for the cardinal sin of not being as well as other people. |
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Another cardinal sin committed by the Commission is that its proposal contains no measures whatsoever for integration. |
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This is another example of keeping the House in the dark, just what the Auditor General said was the cardinal sin of the government. |
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I was sure the owner committed the cardinal sin of improperly storing his wine, and I smote him with all the fervor of a zealot. |
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In multicultural, pluralist, tolerant Britain, ridiculing religion is frowned upon and causing offence or undermining the self-esteem of communities is a cardinal sin. |
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Credit attribution if neglected, is a cardinal sin that will breed bitterness within the community and discourage developers from further contributing to the project. |
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The great cardinal sin in business these days seems to be missing even the slightest opportunity to shove an ad in people's faces at every possible moment. |
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And ringing false is the cardinal sin of the Chuck Norris universe. |
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Set in a 1960s mental institution, The Ward commits the cardinal sin of willfully cheating viewers for the sake of a final reel twist. |
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Koeman hammered Maya Yoshida for committing his Southampton manager's cardinal sin of attempting a back-pass. |
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And to fancy a treat of your favourite sweet will be classed as a cardinal sin. |
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It unfolds in a 1960s mental institution and commits the cardinal sin of cheating the audience for the sake of a final reel twist. |
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At a time when men were free walking free on the earth and you lived in great prosperity, you lived many hundreds of years and there was no cardinal sin and now. |
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The Lisbon Strategy is a delightful set of intentions, yet commits the cardinal sin of not being a Community strategy, as you correctly pointed out. |
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Most beginners are blissfully unaware that dropping in on someone is a cardinal sin. |
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All our regulations on distribution relationships identify any hindrance of parallel imports, as a cardinal sin, and heavy fines are imposed on firms that attempt it. |
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It is because the Lisbon Strategy committed the cardinal sin of not giving the Commission the responsibility for implementing, and being the focal point for, this strategy. |
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You did the right thing by refusing to commit the cardinal sin of buckling at the outset of a Commission that, for the good of Europe, must be a strong Commission with strong leadership. |
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The Ward unfolds in a 1960s mental institution and commits the cardinal sin of wilfully cheating the audience for the sake of a final reel twist. |
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The 18th-century replica stone bust, entitled Cardinal Sin, has had its face sawn off and replaced with bathroom tiles. |
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Louis Distillery, discovered that, like most things, their Cardinal Sin premium vodka just gets better with age. |
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