Sentences with phrase «as wanton»

Many historians have accepted without question King Henry's view of his wives: the one as sexually repellent and the other as wanton.

While it may be exciting to play, watching it play out as a movie wouldn't be particularly thrilling, as the wanton mayhem doesn't really titillate as much when you don't have a personal connection to any of it.

Beau Travail transliterates Herman Melville's low - key homoerotic sailor tale Billy Budd, in which Melville wrestles, for the final time, with the magnanimity of God and the mendacity of man, as a vituperative study of imperialism and militarism as wanton outlets for flimsy masculinity.

So to the Exchange, and thence home to dinner with my brother, and in the afternoon to Westminster hall, and there found Mrs. Lane, and by agreement we met at the Parliament stairs (in my way down to the boat who should meet us but my lady Jemimah, who saw me lead her but said nothing to me of her, though I ought to speak to her to see whether she would take notice of it or no) and off to Stangate and so to the King's Head at Lambeth marsh, and had variety of meats and drinks, but I did so towse her and handled her, but could get nothing more from her though I was very near it; but as wanton and bucksome as she is she dares not adventure upon the business, in which I very much commend and like her.

Not exact matches

And of course, when it happens the woman will be branded a harlot and the man is comforted as the victim of her wanton ways.

I would qualify that to «wantonly and willingly harming another»... as to cause harm in a way that may seem wanton, but is not necessarily intentional, would not be something I consider evil.

When the Cultural Revolution ended, it was as if my parents» generation had just woken up from a dream: It turned out the man they had worshipped as the Red Sun itself was nothing but a cruel and petty dictator who led a wanton and dissolute life.

A columnist in a newspaper outside of Zambia even proposed that, as a matter of justice, developing nations deserve to engage in a few generations» worth of wanton polluting.

(CNN)- For my husband and me, the crown jewel of success as parents is the shrieks and wanton joy that come when our children open presents on Christmas morning.

Such wanton disregard for this kind of act is nearly as bad as the crime itself.

War is a particular demonstration of the power of sin in the world and a defiance of the righteousness of God as revealed in Jesus Christ and him crucified» Yet the conference accepted the idea that criteria exist by which some wars can be regarded as just: to defend international law, or to vindicate «an essential Christian principle» such as the defense of «victims of wanton aggression.»

And yet he was never a wanton irrationalist; Kierkegaard spoke entirely in earnest when he ranked Hamann and Socrates together as «perhaps two of the most brilliant minds of all time.»

To hold it in disdain, to set it over against realism, to stigmatize it as incompatible with true Christianity, to proclaim its bankruptcy, is hardly less than a wanton act.

Hearing that in the depths of our being, we may feel with Gloucester in King Lear that «as flies to wanton boys are we to the gods — they kill us for their sport.»

This would explain why many early versions of Scripture translated this word as «wantons,» «debauchers,» «licentious,» and «sensual.»

Many young - bucks of godlessness and the ungodliness tenders to avail themselves with the nailed doldrums» sciatica and they do abound with much societal unpleasantries toward the abaters of commonly wanton deniabilities against them, those ungodly and godless beings of smirked violaters of randomized intention - abilities meant only as austerities subversions.

Being a Muslim, I know they were misguided and Islam clearly does not condone such wanton cause of terror in its name, but the non-Muslim does not owe it to any one, Muslim or not, to understand and accept that concept, as far as the families of the affected individuals are concerned the individuals who committed that dastardly act were «Muslims», period!

I, that am rudely stamped, and want love's majesty To strut before a wanton ambling nymph; I, that am curtail'd of this fair proportion, Cheated of feature by dissembling nature, Deformed, unfinished, sent before my time Into this breathing world, scarce half made up, And that so lamely and unfashionable That dogs bark at me as I halt by them.

It is tempting to see the wanton violence and cruelty in human history as a «throw back» to what is primitive and undisciplined in human nature.

Miller perceived existence as a loose concatenation of separate and ultimately inconsequential instants, each colored by the actions that preceded it, but each possessed of a small wanton freedom of its own.

Ah, and the book gets to determine who is innocent as well, so the 5th should read «Thou shalt not murder anyone who lives like we do, but thou shalt murder the wicked with wanton abandon.»

Societies need to allow people their due causes and reasonings for wanton abortions as the cases may be in the benefits of parental consternations relative to their life needs and wants.

If King's conception of the Deity or deities that inhabit our solar system is that possessed by a primitive tribe of hunter - gatherers or by one of the earliest of civilizations, one of half - human gods (chimeras) or monsters, little concerned with the fate of humanity, both capricious and threatening («As flies to wanton boys are we to the gods; they kill us for their sport»), that is interesting from an anthropological perspective, but what does it have to do with «first things»?

To borrow and bend the Bard: As flies to wanton boys are we to the referees; they cheat us for their sport.

It's as if when «both people are working» it's a license to spend in a wanton fashion and disregard the need for frugality or saving money.

She probes the antic recklessness and wanton secrecy endemic to love affairs, breathing life into mistresses who evince the agency, autonomy, self - direction, and order of this definition — attributes far removed from the type of lasciviousness once meriting containment by legal statute and exile in imperial Rome — as well as to those who, by choice or circumstance, fell prey to their lovers» manipulation.

To further advertise unprofessionalism, ignorance and wanton desperation to malign a leading light, loyalist and committed party stalwart, the reporter also alluded that Senator Ojudu belonged to a faction in the Ekiti APC that was on a collision course with the present Exco and as such could not get the party's ticket in the primaries.

While leading the debate on the motion, Senator Danjuma La'ah said, «on the 23rd December, 2016 and even as we speak, communities of Ambam, Gaska, Dangoma, Tsonje, Pasankori, Gidan Waya and Farin Gada of Jama'a and Kaura local government area have been under serious attack by the herdsmen, resulting in several deaths, injuries, and wanton destruction of properties worth billions of naira».

The Strategic Thinkers Network - Africa (STRANEK) is of the strong view that the list of staffers at the Presidency as submitted to Parliament in accordance with section 11 of the Presidential Office Act, 1993 (Act 463) results in a wasteful expenditure which is not in tandem with President Akufo Addo's policy of protecting and saving the public purse from profligate expenditure and wanton abuse.

The Coalition of Northern Groups, CNG, has suggested an imposition of emergency rule in Zamfara State as the only solution to the incessant attacks and wanton...

Police were bullish in response, attacking the protestors» «wanton vandalism» and using the violence as a justification of the controversial «containment» technique.

«The first suspect, Morris Ashwe 36 yrs Native of Mbajima Village Katsina Ala LGA Benue State confessed and admitted to have been supplying firearms and ammunition to the notorious and most wanted vicious and notorious gang leader of militia, murderers and kidnappers Terwase Akwaza aka Ghana who was declared wanted by the Nigeria Police Force for the merciless killings of several innocent persons and wanton destruction of properties worth Millions of Naira, at ZakiBiam in Benue State on 20th March, 2017 and for other violent crimes such as Culpable Homicide, Mischief by Fire and Criminal Conspiracy and the killing of Mr. Deneen Igbana (late) the Special Adviser on Security to the Governor of Benue State.

The protesting students, who were seen chanting war songs, carried placards with inscriptions, such as; «enough of Fulani Killings in Benue», «herdsmen must go», «no more grazing in Benue», etc, called on the Benue and federal governments to act fast to stop the wanton killing of the innocent citizens of the state.

In addition, these wanton and extra-judicial killings are in direct breach of Section 33 of the constitution which guarantees the rights of Nigerians to life as protected also under numerous other international legal instruments to which Nigeria is a signatory.

As I am talking to you, our lawyers are heading to the court to arraign a Nigerian for the pilferage and wanton stealing of over N10 billion belonging to the NDDC.

But to hail this transformation as unprecedented is to do our mustachioed ancestors a disservice — an act of wanton disrespect made only more unseemly when one considers that they were born and lived and went to their graves without ever once waking up on a birthday morning, scraping the ice off their laptops, and receiving salutations from a distant land in the form of an abysmal, not - quite - functioning cartoon of chickens — one year it was elephants — either attempting, or pretending, to dance.

Benign neglect is one thing, but wanton destruction, often as a result of local authority cost cutting, was cultural philistinism at its worst.

Each of the river's identities — as the fertile nurturer and the wanton killer — derives from the same feature: the 1 billion tons of sediment that washes down each year from the Loess Plateau to the Bohai Sea.

The only bad thing is it takes us awhile making everything from scratch as we do egg rolls, «fried» rice, «cream cheese» wantons, and usually something else but so worth it.

For the most part, citizens see the end of the world as a force of liberation with wild parties where young children are allowed to drink alcohol and adults do heroin and indulge in wanton sex.

The fact that these two brothers get a kick out of excessively lowbrow toilet humor — and the fact that their massive audiences also enjoy this sort of sub-sophomoric humor, in droves no less — is taken as a signifier that the country is on some sort of massive mental downturn, with projected results of deflated math scores and wanton pie - throwing in the streets.

Of course, it wouldn't be a Nintendo party game without any twists — such as seagull coming along and depositing a Fronk in the water, leaving it to drown helplessly (such graphic, wanton destruction, Nintendo!).

Isabella is a good girl: She doesn't have wanton casual sex, and when she thinks she wants to, it's the target of her careless affections who stops her, even as she's pawing him on the couch.

Will Cindi see the error of her ways and want Eugene back, or has she been irreversibly turned into a wanton blonde bimbo only too willing to be seen as a sex object?

As the imaginative author of his own tale (narrated to be «Chapters of my Life»), Kitten recalls the lifelong company of tight - knit friends (one, with Down's syndrome, mirrors Kitten's grown - up childishness), dreams of his long - lost mother (said to have looked like Mitzi Gaynor), and condemns «this stupid serious world» for its wanton violence.

It's not easy to mix broad comedy and wanton carnage, so credit writer - director Edgar Wright for succeeding without much of a hitch for as long as he does.

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Unbeknownst to them, they are all descended from the whimsical, capricious, wanton creatures known as the jinn, who live in a world separated from ours by a veil.

There's a web browser for starters, as well as, potentially, your Amazon account through which they can buy books with wanton abandon.

Fun Factoid: The night before the funeral of Burns» father, Luath was tragically killed (as stated by the brother) «by the wanton cruelty of some person.»