Sentences with phrase «debased kind»

It is assumed to be a poor, debased kind of language used for dysfunctional social purposes.

Not exact matches

But while, for example, Hittite (not Babylonian) law also places this kind of debased sex act under sentence of death (vs. 19), in the context of Israelite apodictic law the prohibition must be understood as being rooted in the same essential theological perspective as the immediately preceding and following prohibitions against sorcery and idolatrous sacrifice.

Hittite (but not Babylonian) law also decrees death for this kind of debased sex act; but in the present context of Israel's torah the law is cast in the same theological perspective as the prohibitions immediately preceding and following.

Even though I knew what kind of character he was it still shook me to see his debasing actions.

So it isn't shocking that Ravitch debases herself further with a piece on her eponymous site on last week's massacre of 26 teachers and children in Newtown, Conn., that shows her to be the kind of intellectual opportunist that would take advantage of tragedy to score points.

His admirable classical drawing has further obscured his works» erotic baggage, thus leading to a promise fulfilled, not debased, and showing anew how deeply art comes from art, even of a kind once deemed indigestible.

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.

While one may applaud Popper's conviction that real argument is preferable to the kind of suggestive observations that Wittgenstein and his followers used to throw out, Popper himself has debased the currency of argument by his indiscriminate employment of any argument that comes to hand.