Word: corruptedness
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The righteousness of the hero is corrupted in the arrogance of the zealot. The zealot's mind mixes faith, reason and ego to come to its fatal conclusion. Amir's "wisdom" brought him to interpret the militants' belief in a divinely ordained "Greater Israel" as an end in itself, worthy...
Copley sent it, through a seagoing friend, directly to Reynolds in London, the foremost portraitist of his age. Reynolds wrote back, urging him to cross the Atlantic at once: "You would be... one of the first Painters in the World," if only he came "before your Manner and Taste were...
Barbara J. Fields '68 said the English language has been corrupted by the metaphoric use of business and sports jargon, in the opening lecture of the W.E.B. Du Bois Lecture series entitled "Humane Letters: The Art and Duty of the Word."
Lee, who wore a red cap emblazoned with the letters "CCCP" during the recent Ken Burns' "Baseball" series on PBS, said materialism and commercials have corrupted the game, naming Adam Smith, the father of market economics, as the culprit.
Addressing an audience of about 20 in Boyleston Hall, Ogletree, who is serving as a consultant on the case for NBC News, said the press and the brouhaha surrounding the case have corrupted the sanctity of the courtroom.