It is due to its indiscriminateness that human sexuality is inherently prone to perversion. |
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All disciples of cinematic perversion know too well the delights of suffering in the face of intense pleasure. |
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The statement that they had not left the meeting but left to attend to other business was deplored as a perversion of the facts. |
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My idea of courses taught entirely in cafes and bars could be construed as a perversion of the whare wananga's relationship to the natural world. |
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Gone are the shadowy streets of Manhattan, skyscrapers blotting out the sun like overseers to the perversion playing out below. |
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I have evidence of perjury and the perversion of the course of justice and misfeasance in public office. |
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This fall's literary landscape fairly bristles with weirdness, perversion, and subversion. |
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Artists, in this view, are people who may avoid neurosis and perversion by sublimating their impulses in their work. |
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And that can develop out of any tradition, can develop out of any religion, or perversion. |
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This is an outrageous perversion of the long-standing law that the creator has the exclusive right to license his work. |
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No nation which had surrendered these powers to a foreign entity could, by any perversion of language, be described as sovereign. |
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The most compelling argument, and the issue at the heart of the liberal perversion of liberalism, is in the area of humanitarianism. |
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Pure theory is too vulnerable to corruption and perversion at the hands of opportunists. |
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Well, your Honours, the allegation was section 319 of the Crimes Act, perversion of the course of justice. |
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This type of political perversion of the law was well known during Hitler's fascist dictatorship. |
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The founding fathers would have had to pop a lot of pills to conceive of this perversion of the Bill of Rights. |
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In the sessions with his supervising therapist, he links the origins of his perversion to his early sexual exposure to his younger sister. |
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It seemed to me royals were always in on some kind of scandal, partner swapping, infidelity, one sexual perversion after another. |
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It revealed a disgusting and shocking obsession with sexual perversion involving young female children. |
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In the revised Code, only sexual perversion and venereal disease remained totally forbidden. |
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One might say that celibacy has become the last sexual perversion in America. |
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But I'm also an old newspaper reporter who, in my time, covered some hideous stories of perversion. |
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Western affluence has also become the occasion for moral decline in general and the growth of sexual perversion in particular. |
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Together they set off on a road trip of mass murder, mental and physical torture and sexual perversion. |
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This is no longer a tale of tragically misguided love, but of sexual perversion and an unforgiveable abuse of power. |
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With the fire and brimstone of the Old Testament, the parishioner condemns his perversion. |
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It has wrecked the lives of many teenagers through suicide, drug abuse, immorality, perversion, satanism, etc. |
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The result is history without tears, something palatable and likely to be highly popular, but it isn't in essence a perversion of the truth. |
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So I see the perversion of punctuation as part of our long, slow descent into ungrammaticalness. |
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We also see that perversion is one manifestation of this narcissistic organisation within an individual. |
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I'll always be the one who enticed their precious little boy away from the straight and narrow, away to a life of sin and perversion. |
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In the eighteenth century the goal of mission was seen primarily as conversion from idolatry and religious perversion. |
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This perversion of democratic competition is reflected in the development of the political parties and their programmes. |
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To be honest, I'm often left wondering what precisely he thinks is so new about sexual perversion and the attempt to rationalize it. |
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The road to perversion is cast with such anonymous faces, individuals incognito. |
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Anybody having experienced the effects of war firsthand will understand the deceit and perversion in calling these games a reflection of global events. |
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Our democracy is a threat to their perversion of a religion. |
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Our special report on perversion of the language is coming right up. |
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They have accused me of supporting the sin of sexual perversion. |
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He continued to talk animatedly about corruption and perversion for quite some time, before the pastor finally managed to steer the conversation away to firmer ground. |
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This, however, was part of a fundamental perversion of the concept of ethos. |
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The need for consensus and placation is a particularly human perversion of science, but it happens all too often because office and personal politics make it necessary. |
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The most extreme threat to the principles of civility comes, then, not from the direct negation of the truth of its inversion, but rather from its perversion. |
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Though the pursuit of sexual ecstasy through pain is seen as masochism, as a perversion, Bataille argues that this is one example of liberation through surrender. |
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It's yet another example of something that would be better called a dramedy, if that wasn't a horrible perversion of a word that I would never use in a review. |
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But this perversion of man is revoked by God, who becomes man in Christ and thus reestablishes the original order. |
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The levels of violence and perversion that some of these young people are having to endure is really very shocking. |
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When are the Chairman and governors of the BBC going to wake up their consciences and address this scandalous perversion of public service broadcasting? |
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There is no suggestion of prurience, or perversion, and the experiences described have an almost mystical intensity. |
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Attempting to do the will of God in isolation is unrewarding and can be dangerous, possibly leading to even a perversion of divine impulses. |
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It is a perversion of the facts to say that these men want something safe and easy. |
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Canada must not allow the perversion of its human rights ideal in the name of national security. |
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Otherwise the distortion and perversion of the struggle for oil and water into a religious war can scarcely be excluded. |
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Democracy and its perversion, timocracy, are both characterized by the rule of the majority, and all who have the property qualification count as equals. |
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She does not die as a victim, but having forgiven her executioners, she talks back at them and tries to show them their corruption, perversion and inhumanity. |
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The perversion of the movie is ingenious, and yet so simple. |
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The confusion between the little god of love and death the huntress, the bare buttocks which in Rops' work evoke hypocrisy and the allusion to female perversion, are all visual transpositions of the text of the novel. |
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Beyond the jarring spectacle of blindfolded men in orange suits and manacles, the whole idea of locking people up indefinitely without trial looked un-American, a perversion of the values of a nation ruled by law. |
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In this strange perversion of the Protestant work ethic, a great deal of time, skill and emotional intensity is invested in activities with absolutely no social benefit. |
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He omits incest from his account and attempts to dissuade the biographees from thinking that Byron could be guilty of such perversion. |
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By taking up arms against an imaginary Western plot to spread perversion, Vladimir Putin and Nigeria's Goodluck Jonathan doubtless hope to distract attention from the corruption and incompetence of their own regimes. |
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To simply not show up or to simply show up and then sit in their seats is such a tragedy and such a perversion of democracy, it is difficult to attempt to achieve the right pitch and tone of condemnation. |
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This resolution, ladies and gentlemen, is to be read, not misread, for that would be a perversion of the genuine concerns to uphold essential principles in which it is rooted. |
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Project management perversion of drinking water systems, sewage, rainwater and optical loop for the second Angevin Angevin tramline. |
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The Communists told us spellbinding stories of the perversion, debauchery and financial skulduggery of the Socialists. |
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It accused the crown of extortion, perversion of justice, and election fraud. |
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A curious instance of perversion in religio-sexual feeling, bordering on zooerastia, is the case of St. Veronica. |
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This is an amazing perversion of what learning is supposed to be about. |
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To sum it up, the original creators could be keen on giving up on their moral rights, when tribute was paid to their creation via what could be, to their view, the anihilation and the perversion of its very essence. |
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We reject, as stated by the ministers, the perversion of legal standards that is being used to justify this breakdown in the constitutional and democratic order in Honduras. |
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This was sheer perverseness, if not perversion, because it meant that there was a risk that development aid would be reduced to a form of reparations. |
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The true perversion, though, is the sense you get that all of this illicitness has been tossed in as a little something for the ladies, out of a justifiable fear, perhaps, that no woman alive would watch otherwise. |
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In the perversion of their French life they have no exact idea of what concerns Germany. |
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Queerosexuals are not bred from normal people. They are individuals who make a CHOICE to commit acts of perversion. |
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Classical Anglicanism, therefore, like Orthodoxy, holds that Holy Tradition is the only safe guardian against perversion and innovation in the interpretation of Scripture. |
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