Word: guilts
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...these poems water seems to flow back and froth in time, providing a sense of continuity between past and present. Schnackenberg often uses "gilt" or "gilded" to describe the setting of her poetry, or the poetry itself--something beautiful, untouchable, frozen at a particular moment in time. "Gilt" and "guilt" are used in conjunction or even interchangeably. In Schnackenberg's view, poetry is not just a gilded snapshot of an instant in time; it is also somewhat responsible for--guilty of--the unfolding of history...
...BLAME GAME. When things go wrong in Russia, no one ever thinks that he personally might be to blame. In contrast to Western Christianity, the Russian Orthodox Church places little stress on the concept of personal guilt. The first two saints of the Eastern Slavs, Boris and Gleb, were passive martyrs to political intrigue. Their story provided a powerful image of suffering innocence in an unjust world that has lodged in the national psyche to this day. Russians routinely use the excuse that they are innocent victims of forces beyond their control to explain away personal failures. A vague, amorphous...
...Communist Party apparatchik and adviser to each of the past three Soviet leaders, Volsky, 60, has the assured air of a man who has walked the corridors of the Kremlin many times. Holding only a nominal party office at the time of the August 1991 coup, he escaped the guilt by association that taints other former high party officials. Many observers now consider him a future Prime Minister -- a post he has repeatedly denied seeking. "I have said 29 times I don't want the job, but every day the press says otherwise," he complains, waving his hand as though...
Panelists discussed the potential for false accusations of rape at length. Jarvenpaa said statistics showed a low number of false accusations of rape, but Salamon reiterated that any law must work on the assumption that the accused is innocent until proven guilty, thus leaving the burden of proving guilt on the accuser...
...sometimes be a more deeply emotional part of identity than race -- and a more ambiguous one. Most people identify with one race, while sexuality can be more complex. Many heterosexuals have some homosexual experience, frequently at the young-adult age of military recruits, and the aftermath is often guilt or fear. Some of the people who are most uncomfortable around open homosexuals worry that such impulses are part of their own nature. Moreover, many young men think that having another man show sexual interest implies something unwelcome about their own sexuality; often they feel obliged to answer with violence rather...