Word: slaving
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...Austrian noble Leopold von Sacher-Masoch (1836-95) publishes “Venus im Pelz” (Venus in Furs), a semi-autobiographical work about a man who convinces a woman to make him her slave. The beautiful woman, the Venus in furs of the title, becomes cruel and abusive while trying to sexually please. The Romantic era work caused an outrage in Sacher-Masoch’s home city of Lemburg and has been subject to frequent bans ever since...
Like Jews at a baptism, Gadfly had to ask the person next to us what exactly was going down in the water. Turns out the Northeast’s best and brightest prefer to settle their collegiate rivalries by imitating the slave galley on a Roman warship...
Tawhid is also understood as the “oneness” of not only humanity, but of God. In Islam, there is only one God, and a person can be a slave of only one God. Hatred, jealousy, anger, infatuation—humans can also become enslaved to all of these passions, and thus these passions can become gods to men. Belief in tawhid negates the legitimacy of these false gods. And a true believer in tawhid is liberated from slavery to his passions. The act of slicing off a man’s head and then holding...
...that God would want humans to conduct themselves. Achieving this requires waging a jihad against one’s baser tendencies, such as anger or prejudice. Thus, one who engages in jihad is one who believes in tawhid—he is one who strives to make himself the slave of only God, and not of his passions...
...convince people that burgers are still hip in a calorie- and carbohydrate-obsessed age, the site, angusdiet.com lets visitors send personalized advice from Dr. Angus, seated at his desk, telling others to loosen up, make lifestyle changes or, as CP&B had the doctor advise me, "stop being a slave to story deadlines...