Word: infliction
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...certainly, to take Kelly's eye out of his paintings would be to inflict death upon the very soul of his work--"I'm very interested in the measure of color (form and line as well)...color changes so subtly." For Kelly, the world is just "a bunch of fragmentation," a space defined thoroughly by perception. He has trained his eyes to detect the slices of everyday life that might elude other. At age 12, Kelly remembers walking by a window, a ready-made frame, which enclosed what appeared to him to be three colored, abstracted shapes. Intrigued, he approached...
...legal eagle by prime time, dial-a-dominatrix in this celluloid romp. She deliciously performs her duties on Porter's ex-partner and is even called upon to give Porter some gun-totin' lovin. As Pearl, she is Gibson's true foil in this movie, she likes to inflict pain as much as he likes to take it. Suffice it to say, it's celebrity death match made in heaven...
...steal should expect to be exposed to murder at any time. For the American forces to expect anything from me personally reflects a very narrow perception. Thousands of millions of Muslims are angry. The Americans should expect reactions from the Muslim world that are proportionate to the injustice they inflict...
...century we'll be able to alter our DNA radically, encoding our visions and vanities while concocting new life-forms. When Dr. Frankenstein made his monster, he wrestled with the moral issue of whether he should allow it to reproduce: "Had I the right, for my own benefit, to inflict the curse upon everlasting generations?" Will such questions require us to develop new moral philosophies...
...world where 1.3 billion human beings endure the inhumanity of absolute poverty? Where severe environmental degradation persists? Where war has claimed countless lives on every continent? Where cultural disintegration and pervasive personal meaninglessness become "inevitable" by-products of materialism's circular pointlessness? Must humanity dream up new crises to inflict upon itself...