Sentences with phrase «became debased»

Genocide has been called the «crime of crimes» and there is a hesitancy to use it in case it becomes debased by overuse.

What starts out as hope soon becomes debased into a dialectic of lust, leaving only a sense of chaos and the inevitability of a new reality»

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Lust becomes, therefore, the more debasing and the more sinful when what is intended for good is perverted to selfish and sensual indulgence.

They just don't want to debase it by using it as a cheaper alternative to seeing a movie, or (for boys) as a way of asserting machismo in the absence of positive male role models, or (for girls) as a desperate ploy to hold on to a boyfriend — or any of the other sad, dead — end abuses of sex that become common whenever a society sheds its «repressed Victorianism.»

Corruption is a great word, a political word with a precise meaning in eighteenth - century discourse even though its use has become narrowed and debased with us.

By becoming subservient to him, the slave is debased and so is odious.

This practice is becoming more and more important these days, as cinema is constantly debased by the «ratings» mentality and the «hype» machine.

Its form is derived from the plan of a London housing estate, whose architects were themselves the distant inheritors of a utopian ideal, no matter how debased that ideal became.

'' We should not be so surprised that the contemporary science debate has become so debased,» Dr Phelps, pictured, said.»