Word: viles
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...never held that man was vile. It was for this very reason that he found himself in disagreement with the teachings of Christianity. He spoke of the original sin as a "theological nightmare." La Rochefoucauld was as much his enemy as Rousseau. For him, man was neither bestial nor divine; he was human; that is, he was torn between a higher will and a lower...
...eyes swollen from their tape bandages. He tottered into the station house and asked for whiskey. He said that guns had been poked in his back, shears snipped threateningly under his ears. "I was treated like a dog. The bed they gave me was infested. They called me every vile and filthy name they could think of." Kidnappee Factor however, for all his brutal treatment, was unwilling to hazard a guess for the authorities as to his captors' identity. He threw a bad scare into many a wealthy Chicago home by announcing: "The gangsters told me that they...
...considered Andre worthy of death, had they seen a filthy cartoon that he had adorned the front page of his Daily Paper. El Dia, with a few days before he was shot: which issue the Government suppressed, and very few saw or even heard of this evidence of his vile imaginations...
...students and the A. B. C. have set themselves to clean up Cuba of its many curses: such as lottery, universal gambling, brothels and dives, vile publications as Politico Comica and La Scinana, graft, politics that exploit Cuba for personal gain, regardless of public advantage. And they seek a system of liberal education, purity of the press, a wholesome young manhood and young womanhood of Cuba Libre, the total eradication of snobocracy, a nation-wide sense of honor, true and devoted,men and women. Then they will have gained Freedom, Liberty, Justice and Honor, as few nations yet possess...
...circle on the surface of a sphere, whose plane passes through the centre of the sphere), his motto from Elizabethan John Marston ("O frantick, fond, pathetick passion! Is't possible such sensuall action should clip the wings of contemplation? . . . Fie, can our soule be underling to such a vile con-troule?") and his subject from everyday life (a deceived husband), yet his method is modern, cinematic, "stream-of-consciousness." Poet of involved psychological states, he is usually not at his best in the comparative bluntness of prose. And in modern poetry, which has come far from Robbie Burns, gutlessness...