Word: incubus
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...disappointing, however, that many others forfeit their souls to the incubus of identity politics, supporting the side that favors them on one issue regardless of how they feel about the soundness of its total ideology. Wedding yourself to a whole questionable agenda just because one or two items serve your ends is not only irresponsible, it displays a profound lack of conscience...
...past year, Reebok has been selling a women's running shoe with a name--Incubus--that inspires fear rather than fleetness. Incubus is a mythical demon that rapes sleeping women. Reebok says no one has complained; in fact, the shoe has sold better than expected...
...cause. Reagan will come to forgive George Bush for raising taxes -- and to make sure he never does it again. Which means that Bush will be as weak in a second term as in the first. Realists, of course, see this ghost from the past as an incubus...
...whining, a lot of effort but almost no success. Physically, she is virtually inert, although she seems graceful next to her leading man, Frederick Neumann. Neumann does wonderful things with his voice, and his vocal virtuosity is put to good use by Breuer; but the voice seems like an incubus that is very, very unhappy with the body it has fallen into. And Neumann seems a little confused by the production--he plays it very much as an actor, bantering, for example, with the technical people; but this undercuts the extreme emotionalism of his exit. Actually, it may be that...
...unlikely pair to wash up on the wilder shores of love. Grace and Caro Bell are sisters, beautiful and well-bred, with neither property nor prospects. Orphaned young in their native Australia, they emigrate to England in their early 20s, accompanied by their half-sister Dora, who is both incubus and guardian. To the touch, the girls' surface is all coolness; the heat seems to have been drawn out of them during their struggle against Dora's ravenous self-love...