Sentences with phrase «book of whores»

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An illustration to the first edition of his New Testament had shown «the whore of Babylon» (featured in the last book of the New Testament), wearing a triple crown — clearly it was the papal tiara.

If it ultimately bows to convention — leaving Saldana, like Gillan, to make the most of a shallow female role (Gamora, at one point, is inexplicably called a whore)-- that streak of smart silliness makes Guardians of the Galaxy just different enough to be fun for comic book fans and skeptics alike.

We were inspired by a book called Harris's List of Covent Garden Ladies, which was a sort of «London Guide to Whoring,» which was a bestseller, really from the 1760s to the 1800s.

In fact, columnist Brandon Griggs of the Salt Lake City Tribune points out that everyone is seeking a blurb for his or her book, and even well - meaning blurbers (that is, those who genuinely enjoy a book and want to support it, as opposed to those authors who are just seeking promotional opportunities for their own books) tend to look like, well, «blurb whores» if they endorse more than fifty books.

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Whore of Babylon & Robber Barons depicts the Book of Revelations beast composed of notorious 19th Century American merchants atop a sea of 1960s political conventioneers.

106 (2002); Margaret A. Hagen, Whores of the Court: The Fraud of Psychiatric Testimony and the Rape of the American Justice System, Regan Books (1997), and and Jay Ziskin et al., Coping With Psychiatric and Psychological Testimony, infra, note 74.