Just when you thought he couldn't get any lower, Carl once
again debased himself and the entire political process.»
Not exact matches
«Celebrating your maiestas is without price and, as you know, Dominus, plans are in place to
debase the precious metal in the coinage
again.
«There is genocide
again in Europe [No there isn't, unless one
debases the term to mean perennial ethnic and religious conflicts]; there is economic inequality at home [There always will be; the question is whether there is greater economic opportunity]; civil rights are not assured for all Americans [Sullivan's particular campaign is for same - sex marriage]; civil liberties have had a terrible decade [I'm not sure what he means; perhaps new and intrusive antiterrorist laws in the Clinton era]; the racial question remains and festers [Undoubtedly true, although it is currently festering below fever level].»
«
Again, the corrupt and unsound form of speaking in the plural number to a single person, you to one, instead of thou, contrary to the pure, plain, and single language of truth, thou to one, and you to more than one, which had always been used by God to men, and men to God, as well as one to another, from the oldest record of time till corrupt men, for corrupt ends, in later and corrupt times, to flatter, fawn, and work upon the corrupt nature in men, brought in that false and senseless way of speaking you to one, which has since corrupted the modern languages, and hath greatly
debased the spirits and depraved the manners of men; — this evil custom I had been as forward in as others, and this I was now called out of and required to cease from.
The critic Robert Hughes recently denounced him in a lecture to the Royal Academy, and this week, writing in the Guardian,
again lambasted a
debased art world «swollen with currency».