Word: tokenisms
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...same token, Sade's scandalous love of physical torment overshadows his political convictions. In the famous whipping scene, for example, he strips to the waist and orders his hands bound. Summoning Corday to his side, he provides her with a whip and drawls: "And even now I should like to have this beauty here, who stands there so expectantly, and let her beat me while I talk to you about the revolution." The audience and other inmates gasp in horror and anticipation. Sade proceeds to crumple, groan and writhe on the floor, creating a sensation but garbling every word...
...form since the late nineteenth century, so only a limited supply of old music is available. Some masters, like Handel and Mozart, have composed music for a more primitive version of the harp, but Benet explains that repertoire can be a problem because "a lot of composers write their token harp concerto and that...
...part scorn for foolishness, but it is also, I think, the unfortunate result of a belief that such protests achieve nothing. Hardened by the failed excesses of the sixties, our generation shies away from such displays, claiming they are naive, lambasting what we see as token and counterproductive grabs for media attention. But we should remember that nearly twenty-five years ago, when four young black students simply sat down at a lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina and ignited the civil rights movement, the same skeptical eyebrows were raised as to what could be accomplished...
...After a token finisher from Yale and another from Princeton crossed the finish line, the Crimson men went on to cop the fifth, sixth, and seventh places in the persons of Peter Jelley, Andy Gerken, Bill Pate...
...assume for a moment that in the country whose citizens financed the slaughter, there are at least some token reactions. While in America, I've noticed two clear lines of opinion, both of which ironically ensure that the IRA's chilling message that "we only have to be lucky once" will eventually come true...