Sentences with phrase «debasing forms»

Really, there's no need, when every night on prime - time television we can find experiments involving similarly «extreme social situations» being carried out on real human beings — subjects willing to submit to the most debasing forms of public humiliation Hollywood executives can dream up.

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.

Nor by criticism do I mean only something like the standard game review, which as it currently stands is a pretty debased form.

Rosenberg was aware that this popular childhood activity, as a staple of elementary school fairs and the like, would be considered a debased form of painting.

Not exact matches

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 early Church heresy of Gnosticism tried to escape the reality of Jesus» incarnate form, because the heretics felt that earthly matter was too debased for God to touch.

«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.

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.

The problem is that many of them fail to achieve that goal and end up debasing the currency, in the form of excessive inflation like Venezuela's, or create harmful deflation, as with Argentina's currency peg in 1991.

Children, coached to copy the abusive behaviour of their father, are likely to form future relationships based on these gendered stereotypes, whereby men are encouraged to use power and violence for their own ends, and women are debased and held responsible for all ills.