Once the initial awareness of nakedness had been absorbed, the mind settles down serenely to watch the dance. |
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She had wept, curling embryonically under the duvet, hoping it would cover the nakedness of her flesh and her pain. |
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And from the storm that swirled a formal nakedness took shape, the truth of disguise and the mask of belief were joined forever. |
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Cloth and feather adornments were painted bright red to bracket the people's nakedness, and to expose their bodies more fully. |
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The all seemed shocked by her destroying her property and doing it so very thoroughly, that they seemed positively oblivious to her nakedness. |
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The truth is, the prevalence of nakedness is such that we no longer even remark on seeing a nice girl in a bikini. |
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Henceforth, men and women are prone to view each other as objects, which is why they are now ashamed of their nakedness. |
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The figure, in its nakedness, has an almost ghostly, insubstantial quality, a pathetic vulnerability. |
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If you can't get a rag out of somebody's garbage, the steward of any estate will give you something to cover your nakedness. |
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One chink in the armor, or one moment of nakedness, and the forces of evil could overcome the helpless hero. |
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It's more brazen, more shot through with the raw ache of relationships and the nakedness of emotional experience. |
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The bagnios were clearly gender segregated and complete nakedness strictly prohibited. |
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Secularism is the fig leaf that covers the nakedness of their obstructive politics. |
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Spinning around, I noticed my nakedness, the goose pimples on my warm flesh. |
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I shift into a sitting position, making sure the sheets cover my nakedness. |
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In Tibetan iconography, physical nakedness symbolizes this naked unbounded state of mind. |
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Her youth and nakedness, which at times is accentuated by a circlet of flowers worn in her hair, is emblem enough. |
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In the astounding nakedness of its indifference to the life of its own poor, the government has therefore left itself visible, questionable. |
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Her nakedness, though, is well camouflaged by a veil of long curly hair falling on her shoulders. |
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Human nakedness was given no added nobility, but unworn noble garments did command separate admiration. |
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I peeled back the cover and exposed the glistening nakedness of the virgin steel. |
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Another pro-nudism argument in poverty-stricken Brazil is that nakedness strips people of their social differences. |
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When will he appear from the swamp and swallow up her nakedness hungrily, sharp-set, to rid the world of the dirt that we sweep under the carpet to repress. |
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I wasn't and still am not very comfortable with my own nakedness. |
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Just as we do not shop for clothes just to cover our nakedness, nor eat just to fill the gap, so we don't buy sunglasses merely for the purposes of protecting our eyes. |
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It becomes very much about nakedness, vulnerability and intimacy. |
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They are to seek white garments so that the shame of their nakedness is not revealed. |
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He thought about Susan's soft and pliant nakedness that one Sunday. |
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In order to create an Eden in which we may disport ourselves in innocence and nakedness, we must first commission others to clear its inhabitants out of the way. |
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A Chinese mountaineer held a green raincoat over his waist like an apron, covering his nakedness. |
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And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brethren without. |
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But the actuality of nakedness forces us to choose between prurience and priggishness. |
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As nakedness goes, the piece is a fairly tame, unobjectionable example. |
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Immodesty is only present when nakedness playsa negative role with regard to the value of the person. |
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While the lives of American women are less governed by conflict, they still find ways of using their nakedness for political gain. |
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ReprintsPhilip Carr-Gomm's lushly illustrated book takes a long and enthusiastic look at the politics and culture of nakedness. |
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My truth is always naked, but if men have not been able to see the nakedness of my Spirit, it is because they have not wished to. |
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Genesis 2:25 After they sinned, however, they realised their nakedness and tried to cover themselves. |
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And if sometimes a sort of scarf would cover this nakedness, it was with an aim of purely decorative elegance. |
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The fear drives us to pretend, to fix together religious fig leaves and to hide such nakedness. |
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When words proved fruitless, the women would threaten to expose their nakedness or to go down on their knees. |
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Interestingly, the words naked or nakedness appear close to 100 times in Scripture, spread out from Genesis to Revelation. |
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The reference to nakedness is sometimes taken to refer to bodiless souls but here it would seem to function in an emblematic way best explained in a social context. |
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Adam and Eve were mortified by what their nakedness represented. |
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Of course, if she and this strange woman were playing kinky games with chains and nakedness, at least that meant the guy staring at her wasn't a stranger. |
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The complete nakedness in which he and the others were being kept embarrassed him. |
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Surely the ultimate equaliser is not nakedness but clothing, which lets us be who we want to be, not merely the body with which we've been lumbered? |
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To see another's nakedness when bathing was not forbidden in the temple. |
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Of course, there's much more to his art than just nakedness. |
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Looking at her toes now, they clamored for attention in their nakedness. |
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Body and soul are exposed in all their nakedness in this uninhibited performance in which stage and auditorium merge and become one physical space. |
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Hunger, nakedness and disease have created images which, if caught and projected onto the screens of the warlords would perhaps also give these people a sleepless night and make them begin to think about Angola. |
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Black Girl lived in a primeval forest, carried a knobkerrie, and was highly sexualized with her nakedness and her pronounced womb. |
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Its defeat is not final, but transitory, for from the depths of the abyss the spirit shall rise when it can no longer tolerate its hunger, thirst, nakedness, and lack of light. |
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But this latest ebb has shown the state to be stark naked. The rip tide of democracyThat nakedness, the result of a gradual stripping over decades, has nothing to do with housing or foreclosures or internet shares. |
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And they shall deal with you hatefully, and shall take away all your labor, and shall leave you naked and bore: and the nakedness of your prostitutions shall be discovered, both your lewdness and your prostitutions. |
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Last year, it was bought by Telefonica, a Spanish telecoms firm, for a mighty euro5.5 billion—a handsome prize for Endemol's investors that required neither their humiliation nor their nakedness. |
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This led them to sew coverings of fig leaves to cover their nakedness. |
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Marsyas's nakedness was concealed by his hairy pelt. |
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In reality, almsgiving goes back spiritually to the primordial nakedness of man who comes naked into this world and also leaves it, deprived of everything. |
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They achieve power via, not through, nakedness. |
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In the result, they both ate of the tree, and so their nakedness appeared to them: they began to sew together, for their covering, leaves from the Garden: thus did Adam disobey his Lord, and fell into error. |
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My face I'll grime with filth, blanket my loins, elf all my hairs in knots, and with presented nakedness outface the winds and persecutions of the sky. |
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I tried to shield my nakedness with hands and leaves, but Tatu the amazon generaless, pulled away my fingers and put one of those many-thonged whips into them. |
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And she did about his hands little skins of kids, and she forcovered the nakedness of the neck, and gave the dish and took the loaves that she had baked. |
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