Word: vileness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...revenge as a blasphemy. "Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord. Therefore, if thine enemy hunger, feed him." One can admire these teachings, and yet sometimes find them impossible to accept, or act upon. Must one not make an exception in the case of someone as vile as Mengele? Would mercy toward him not mock his victims...
Bumbling his way through 13th Century France, Broderick'ss Phillippe is the quintessential nerd-in-shining armor. Responding to Navarre's grandiloquent statement that Phillippe's arrival is a sign from God that Navarre must meet his destiny by murdering the vile Bishop who has cast a spell over Navarre and his lady love Isabeau (Michelle Pfeitter), the Mouse quips, "Well, Sir, I talk to God all the time, but meaning no disrespect he never mentioned...
...tear it up, swear, and nobody get any ha, ha's. I vood of send him the playing record "This is My Shining Hour," too; but I don't trust the post mail. I think they would brake the record. It be nice for Mike to play this record vile he reads the newspaper stuff...
...dreadful that this union would approach a terrorist country for help," said Ted MacKay, head of the mineworkers' North Wales branch. Declared Labor Party Leader Neil Kinnock, who has supported the strike: "By any mea sure of political, civil, trade union or human rights, the Gaddafi regime is vile...
...common misconception about Waugh holds that he was a liberal young man who turned into a middle-aged fogy. He was, given the temper of his times, a reactionary all along. The faintly scandalous success of the comic novels Decline and Fall (1928) and Vile Bodies (1930) made their author the most prominent spokesman for the Bright Young People of his generation. London newspapers offered fees for his thoughts on youth. He did not give them exactly what they expected. "I admire almost anything about old people," he wrote in 1930. Waugh, as it turned out, was not kidding about...