Sentences with phrase «debased in»

Not the «taking bribes» kind of corrupt, the more general definition of the term encompassing: guilty of dishonest practices...; lacking integrity; crooked; debased in character; depraved; perverted; wicked; evil; made inferior by errors or alterations, as a text.

I have no interest in ever seeing a Farrelly brothers movie because I don't need reminding how civility, respect and — yes — love are continually debased in mainstream popular culture.

Now it is time to pay the piper and the entire economy of Britiain is being liquidated, asset - stripped and monetized and its currency thoroughly debased in order to bail out the bankrupts.

Plato's account of the slavish / tyrannical soul - type cultivated in the population by a tyrant would suggest that a darker vision of human failure than Hobbes» nightmare is possible: perpetual tyranny, with only dynasty changes possible for a population utterly debased in soul.

But our language is being debased in the most profound sense when it loses the ability to discern and describe the lineaments of our moral lives.

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She's forced into debasing herself in the name of survival.

But it's also filled with amoral and corrupt characters in the game for profit, not patriotism, and even the more idealistic players are forced to debase themselves in the line of duty.

Not exact matches

A sordid trial is underway in Florida this week, pitting the debased former wrestler Hulk Hogan against the digital tabloid Gawker in a fight over a video showing Hogan having sex with his best friend's wife.

He continues in the latest issue, «Bitcoin can't be debased by unlimited issuance, since the blockchain process has been set to permit only a gradual increase from today's 16 million, to 21 million in 2140.

«Celebrating your maiestas is without price and, as you know, Dominus, plans are in place to debase the precious metal in the coinage again.

However, if print money endlessly, you debase the value of your own currency by creating a never - ending increase in supply, thereby driving the price down.

Ever since Bernanke came in with his, «Enrich thy neighbour» and we have rotating debasement that is when we stop debasing, the ECB, and the BoJ.

The reasons why one should sell the cat, pawn the mother - in - law, and use the proceeds to buy gold are well known: the Fed is printing money faster than you can read this, which will result in inflation; the government is borrowing like a drunken monkey, so the dollar will be devalued; this will debase all currencies, so the only thing that will save you is the shiny metal.

Central bankers around the world are debasing fiat currencies with rounds of quantitative easing, resulting in trillions of government bonds being purchased and swapped.

It's also still running its nationwide search for a second headquarters that has mostly entailed seeing which city governments are willing to debase themselves the most in the form of jaw - dropping sweetheart tax deals.

The people who resisted the Civil Rights movement in the south, many of whom used religious arguments, people who classified Blacks as animals, were degraded and debased by their own actions: turning fire hoses on children, setting dogs on peaceful marchers, lynching, firebombing churches...

In response, it must first be said that to call everything an injustice is to debase our already fragile moral vocabulary and to throw moral discourse into even deeper confusion.

In the West, our modern consumer society has now debased this concept to be the equality to buy and consume, to trade and to travel, to build up a life of toys and trinkets.

And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a debased mind, to do those things which are not fitting...»

Admittedly, it is frustratingly difficult to define anti-Semitism, and the very term has been recklessly debased by its facile use in order to silence critics (see the reference above to Freedman of Dartmouth).

«I bless you, matter, and you I acclaim: not as the pontiffs of science or the moralizing preachers depict you, debased, disfigured — a mass of brute forces and base appetites — but as you reveal yourself to mc today, in your totality and your true nature.

And what is more sublime than humility, which, in debasing itself to the lowest, joins itself to its Maker who remains above the highest?

We live in an age whose chief moral value has been determined, by overwhelming consensus, to be the absolute liberty of personal volition, the power of each of us to choose what he or she believes, wants, needs, or must possess; our culturally most persuasive models of human freedom are unambiguously voluntarist and, in a rather debased and degraded way, Promethean; the will, we believe, is sovereign because unpremised, free because spontaneous, and this is the highest good.

As a thinker Holmes was a great destroyer in the mold of Hume or Nietzsche, a tradition that continued in debased form in the century of Russell, Foucault, and Derrida.

ANd verse 26 states they were given over to vile passions in that the women exchanged their natural use and verse 27 states that men did too and states it was shameful and verse 28 states they were given over to a debased mind.

The mass flatters, the mass excuses, the mass condemns, the mass counts heads, the mass pronounces on truth, and in all these things the mass, for Kierkegaard, is that which is both false and debasing.

Practicing Christianity has for African - Americans meant turning the other cheek, walking in humility, and enduring cruel and debasing treatment.

It argues that schooling, medicine and even baseball are debased when they are understood in terms of profit - making.

Perhaps this was due in part to the debased meaning of apology as excuse rather than its proper sense of confident explanation.

In such cases, the only culturally available icon of absolute evil — a precious thing for any culture to possess — is dangerously debased.

Family standards are continually subject to erosion from the inflow of debased materials from the mass media — as in the brutality and immorality of many of the so - called «comic» books, the triviality, sensationalism, and distortion of most journalism, and the preoccupation with crime and violence in many television programs.

If in their desire to «ease» the situation of our generation they debase the doctrine of marriage, our children and grandchildren, and all the coming generation will pay a woeful price.

The need for a new synthesis is not an academic issue, the future of the Church in the West depends on it, our debased secular culture is crying out for it.

With the teaching that man is the highest essence for man, hence with the categoric imperative to overthrow all relations in which man is a debased, enslaved, abandoned, despicable essence.38

The revealed truth is set down once and for all in a book or revealed through prophets or otherwise handed down from the past; all the truth we need is already there; we preserve it, interpret it and see that it is not debased or corrupted.

These qualities and conditions, which constitute the materials and contexts with which and in which the exemplifications of relational power must fulfill their ambiguous destinies, run the gamut from triumphant breakthroughs to crippling regressions, from life - restoring laughter to life - denying despair, from the beauty of the gracious heart to the debasing cruelty of the small mind and smaller soul.

Soon thereafter comes the original, debasing idolatry, described in the enigmatic report in Genesis 6 of the union of sons of God with the daughters of men.

Yet, in light of the prevailing world view in which it was completely permissible to manipulate, cheat, extort, and rob (especially the poor), Amos sees the Day of God as a day of judgment because the community has debased its covenantal relationship with God.

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.»

If you're debasing the term and defining an «insult» as «stating a perceived truth in a plain manner», then sure, i've been insulting.

Many scholars, ancient and modern, have pointed out that such contact with Christianity is unlikely but that, even if it did happen, the Christianity practiced in that part of the world was so debased that it was indistinguishable from paganism.

This clarification is necessary because the term has been so debased, particularly in discourse about preaching, that it were better not to use the word at all if another were available.

«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 significance of particular incidents is to be found in their indication of that direction, whether toward true humanness or toward a debasing of our humanity.

This «othering» takes various facets, including the «othering» through difference, difference in terms of local and external culture, difference in terms of acceptable and unacceptable food and drink, and difference in terms of debased sexual attitudes.

In the following quotation Savarkar illustrates my point in a more nuanced fashion: «All that the caste system has done is to regulate its noble blood on lines believed — and on the whole rightly believed — by our saints and patriotic law - givers and kings to contribute most to fertilize and enrich all that was barren and poor, without famishing and debasing all that was flourishing and nobly endoweIn the following quotation Savarkar illustrates my point in a more nuanced fashion: «All that the caste system has done is to regulate its noble blood on lines believed — and on the whole rightly believed — by our saints and patriotic law - givers and kings to contribute most to fertilize and enrich all that was barren and poor, without famishing and debasing all that was flourishing and nobly endowein a more nuanced fashion: «All that the caste system has done is to regulate its noble blood on lines believed — and on the whole rightly believed — by our saints and patriotic law - givers and kings to contribute most to fertilize and enrich all that was barren and poor, without famishing and debasing all that was flourishing and nobly endowed.

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.

«I laugh at those debased peoples that let themselves be stirred up by agitators, and dare to speak of liberty without so much as having the idea of it; with their hearts still heavy with the vices of slaves, they imagine that they have only to be mutinous in order to be free.