So it's been debased but there again, what has been debased?
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Can anyone who isn't already debased by his association with Trump run with him without becoming similarly debased?
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Noor took the switch out of her jacket, looking out at the debased shapes of the debased forest, clicking the weapon against the dash.
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It's a cynical, debased, fickle world, Hollywood—one not even the cynical, debased, fickle world of professional MMA could have prepared Ronda Rousey for.
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The multi-part question here, by contrast, is: Can anyone who isn't already debased by association with Trump run with him without becoming similarly debased?
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"By Samantha Hunt," in Apple Chancery — that most debased font.
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But in debasing gays, Islam's homophobes have only debased themselves.
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October was insane, even by our debased presidential election standards.
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Ultimately, it just became expected, and the truth was debased.
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Coins were "clipped" in circulation and debased by government decree.
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Except in this respect: If Ailes broadened, he also debased.
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Everyone is capable of becoming complicit in a debased moral order.
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Such spectacles debased music with Jewish commercialism, or so thought Richard Wagner.
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Toward the end of that period, I was so lost and debased.
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If the political was hollowed, art was trivialized and collective life debased.
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Edmund was acquitted of murder, and his debased victim found no justice.
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This is alarming behavior, even by the debased standards of this president.
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Leadership does not knowingly encourage or feed ugly or debased appetites in us.
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Police had "corrupted" prosecutions and "debased fundamental principles of the criminal justice system".
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Leadership does not knowingly encourage or feed ugly or debased appetites in us.
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And apparently no one has a greater appetite for being debased than Christie.
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Leadership does not knowingly encourage or feed ugly and debased appetites in us.
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It's trickle-up politics: the base is debased, backed by right-wing media.
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Whenever a body is debased on screen, you can be sure Artaud is there.
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A similarly entertaining — and debased — moral economy rules the world of YouTube beauty vlogs.
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A few, though, believed it could be more than an outlet for debased desires.
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The one that can't be manipulated, debased, and conjured up electronically at one's whim.
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A new leader cannot use the debased currency of elections to establish his legitimacy.
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I expected something weaker, a debased legend or diluted version of the uncut dope.
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Critics say an unchecked expansion of the money supply has debased the bolivar currency.
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That, too, is Venice: seductively grand, but also sultry, hazy, a little bit debased.
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The old currency, the cruzeiro, had been debased, suffering annual price rises reaching 2,500%.
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Doing so cheapens a political process that has already been debased by this President.
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Beyond stewing in debased words and sentiments, Mr. Trump also uses strikingly simple language.
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Not surprisingly, this conflict inhabits our political rhetoric, which has become increasingly debased, even childish.
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Others have been debased in the course of careless remodels or stripped of signature elements.
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The currency of facts will be debased, that of stunts inflated, that of conviction sidelined.
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But they're also a reminder of how debased policy-making has become during this presidency.
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Chi, that inner sense of shame, has been debased to mean merely not having face.
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"An artist of whom Russia should be proud is being debased and humiliated," Baryshnikov wrote.
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So to see privileged people skip the line must have demeaned and debased the guest experience.
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"It appears that the Fed is about to be debased again," Bove said in a note.
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This, in turn, supports the axiom of the debased: Accept dependency in return for practical benefits.
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There was a time when prizefighters debased themselves by cavorting with mobsters and crooks and even murderers.
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I refused to let the best of this nation be debased and weaponized against truth and justice.
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In Nancy Reagan's mind, the presidency had been devalued and debased after a decade of poor leaders.
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A proud republic debased by a presidential campaign fixated on minor gaffes and riddled with filthy language.
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So often what we deliver is an embarrassing menu of debased artistic material and hard core political diatribes.
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If they continue to make it so the euro is being debased, they ought to be very careful.
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Law and Justice has also debased public language, conjuring phrases reminiscent of the "newspeak" of the Communist years.
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This debased depiction of blackness underwrote a white supremacist impulse that metastasized into every aspect of American life.
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And his looseness with the truth has debased the currency of trust that is needed in a crisis.
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If we fail to identify and comprehend its most debased and nihilistic intents, the results can be catastrophic.
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She filed the defamation suit in January, saying she had been "debased and denigrated" by Mr. Trump's denials.
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Or take the example of airline miles, a form of private currency that is constantly debased by its issuers.
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As the presidency is debased and devalued, those who don't think like Trump's "millions" are challenged to maintain hope.
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I believe it to be a feeding frenzy and sign of a debased discourse that passes for Internet culture.
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Dr. Payton and other critics argued that focusing on unwed mothers and their children debased blacks and blamed victims.
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They hurt real people, debased our political process and erased social norms vital for keeping our diverse society together.
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An aristocrat, an upstanding military man, debased to cheating on a chintzy gameshow by the weight of the world.
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Yes, this physique is a beautiful aesthetic form, but for women, that has often meant being objectified or debased.
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I should say up front that I'm super-biased here, even by the debased standards of media writing about media.
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That so lofty a goal might be debased by Giuliani's machinations to influence U.S. elections disgusted some of these officials.
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Ms. Zervos filed suit two months after the election, asserting she had been "debased and denigrated" by Mr. Trump's comments.
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Secondly: I have a nagging feeling of late that the psychedelic experience has itself become somewhat debased, or even gentrified.
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But in this noisiest and most debased of election cycles, it's no truthful hyperbole to say it's a message worth screaming.
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He also insisted that pidgins and creoles be regarded as languages in their own right, not debased versions of source languages.
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It has been a terrible campaign that has debased us all and left an eternal stain on the American democratic tradition.
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Look up dependent in adjective form, however, and you are likely to see words such as weak, helpless, debased and subordinate.
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It is hanging on now — at a time when the nation has been greatly debased by identity politics — by a thread.
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That is, debased or counterfeit money will circulate more than money with a high commodity value such as gold or silver.
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" One of his accusers, Summer Zervos, is fighting back, saying in a Tuesday press conference that Trump "lied, debased, and denigrated her.
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Every system of exchange ever devised has been exploited; coins made of precious metals were debased; paper notes were forged; cheques bounced.
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The G.O.P. is now Ted Cruz writ large, a political party that has debased itself in the image of its standard-bearer.
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She understands what it is to be debased but can't see Cole clearly enough to grasp that he can also be humiliated.
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We are all being debased and degraded, rendered impoverished and powerless, to service the cruel and lascivious demands of the corporate elite.
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Opinion Columnist Over the years I've periodically been reminded of the many ways in which Bill Clinton's presidency debased our civic culture.
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A weird column about a rape fantasy from 1972 is not going to sink Bernie when Trump has debased all public discourse.
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A coterie of House Republicans debased themselves on national television all year so Trump wouldn't back primary challengers in their gerrymandered districts.
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In the space between then and now, he has endangered the world and debased his new position in all the ways we expected.
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But the grave need for these kinds of solutions has debased the quality of the debate by pushing extreme solutions into the mainstream.
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"It's time to take back the red trouser, to reclaim and celebrate it before it becomes as debased as the Burberry check once was."
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Terms that have, in one way or another, been verbally debased by us Americans to what can only be described as pure jibber-jabber.
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Demonstrators are now hounding the new culture minister, Marcelo Calero, after he asserted that the antigovernment protest in Cannes had debased Brazil's image abroad.
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Two months after the election, Ms. Zervos filed a lawsuit against Mr. Trump, stating that she had been "debased and denigrated" by his comments.
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Instead, the President who has repeatedly shown disrespect for American institutions, values and norms has now debased the State of the Union address itself.
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Of course it matters that Trump's party is craven and debased; of course it matters that the Democrats have swung to an ideological extreme.
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It's an issue about bringing jobs back and taking jobs away from those who took them away from us and debased our American workers.
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But that's no excuse for dumping the fundamentals of American leadership in favor of a more transactional, debased form of nation-state influence peddling.
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Mr. President, as you have done so many times in your two years as president, your speech further debased the dignity of the office.
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Some will say The New York Times is the most trusted newspaper in America — others will call it a debased rag with a liberal agenda.
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Fears of inflation and a debased dollar imply a leaning towards tighter monetary policy—and Mr Trump has made his distaste for that very clear.
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His economic adviser, Francisco Rodríguez, a former Wall Street banker, proposes replacing the debased bolívar with the dollar to end hyperinflation and the economic slump.
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The decline in lead pollution was enhanced by Rome's switch from the silver denarius, which had been increasingly debased with copper, to a gold standard.
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The same pattern has been seen throughout history, as debased currency results in the value of the metal content of coins outstripping their face value.
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Crypto-evangelists extol the virtue of its decentralisation, highlighting that there is a fixed total supply, preventing the token from being debased by tyrannical governments.
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The real question for Republicans is whether they will continue to countenance a president who has debased himself and made a mockery of American values.
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Listen to right-wing talk radio or follow certain hosts on Twitter so see how debased the rhetoric has become in the past 48 hours.
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If Mr. Putin were calling the shots, he would ensure that America's reliability is doubted, its commitments broken, its values debased and its image tarnished.
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Mr. Buffett's denatured country-calypso ditties and horndog smarm seem awfully lowbrow, even in a Broadway environment debased for decades by singing cats and candlesticks.
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He referenced the size of his penis during a presidential primary debate, and it doesn't even make the top 10 list of norms he's debased.
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First and foremost, because I do not like the debased and degraded tone that President Trump has set for our nation and the Republican Party.
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When the story of the Turnbull government is written, he will have been the prime minister who finally debased immigration in the Australian political imagination.
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It's to be debased into toadyism, which probably explains the record-setting staff turnover of 34 percent, according to an analysis from the Brookings Institution.
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Then again, maybe deferring technological obsolescence is ultimately irrelevant for expressing Faulkner's "old verities and truths of the heart" — and the debased ones of other organs.
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They believe so deeply that Trump has debased the culture that there is nothing that can be off-limits in the campaign to oust him. Nothing.
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It is now cliched to pose the counterfactual of what would have happened if another president had behaved like Trump, so debased have our standards become.
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He will learn that he has debased himself without reward, and now that he's reached the bottom of that slippery slope, there's no climbing back up.
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"The partisan gerrymanders here debased and dishonored our democracy, turning upside-down the core American idea that all governmental power derives from the people," Kagan continued.
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I have to admit I didn't expect to enjoy such an old-fashioned show; delight, illumination and uplift feel like debased currencies in 2018, purchasing nothing.
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"Is the end of all of this that the term is so debased that we have to think elsewhere about what to call ourselves?" he said.
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Welcome to Trump's Washington, a town where the language of politics has been so debased by the Oval Office's incumbent that nothing should surprise us anymore.
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Critic's Notebook President Trump's repeated threats to destroy Iran's treasures of art and architecture make the United States seem as debased as ISIS or the Taliban.
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The moment you saw the way the humans debased the robot dogs they created, unaware it was only a matter of time before they exacted their revenge.
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Partisan redistricting has already "debased and dishonoured our democracy", Justice Kagan wrote, "turning upside-down the core American idea that all governmental power derives from the people".
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That's an interesting use of the word "need," since I'm not sure that anyone actually "needs" to see a real person pushed to the most debased extremes.
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The lack of debate about these issues is further evidence of how Moore has debased this election, and is hurting the very people he's running to represent.
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But Trump has debased everyone who's tolerated his corruption, indecency and ineptitude even briefly—such that they can't really attempt to draw a contrast without looking ridiculous.
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" These were days when words like cunt and retard would reflexively exit Bonnell's mouth, along with what has become a debased salutation on the internet: "Kill yourself.
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They won't just be futile raging at the debased nature of American politics under Trump, but an efficacious means of actually changing those politics for the better.
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There's not necessarily very much practical application to your book—it's a lot of questioning without answering—and you mention self-help as a "debased form" of perfectionism.
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Congressional Republicans have debased our politics, assaulted the truth, ignored vital processes, lied to the American people, endorsed immorality and flouted reality like no party in modern times.
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"I am putting each and every one of you on notice," Mr. Christie said in a 653 speech, taking aim at his home state's notoriously debased political culture.
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Whereas Prévost's main angle is how des Grieux is debased and wrecked by the irresistible Manon, MacMillan shows how she too travels a long journey: a darker one.
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"Sensation" and its Young British Artists dominated the art conversation, enraptured the tabloids, and relegated British portraiture to the debased realm of one-note arguments and conceptual gimmicks.
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Not only does he regard Trump as an unacceptable nominee, but he argues that the debased Republican officials who've endorsed Trump have discredited themselves as fit public servants, too.
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" She added: "In so doing, the partisan gerrymanders here debased and dishonored our democracy, turning upside-down the core American idea that all governmental power derives from the people.
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There, the idea of luxury was debased and devalued with gaudy dresses, blouses and skintight pant-boot hybrids cut in post-Brexit-inspired euro-note and dollar-bill patterns.
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And it may be unrealistic to expect that the handpicked envoy of a president who has so totally debased political discourse could be respectful or wise in his utterances.
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On Friday, similarly, the Palestinian Authority's official news agency, Wafa, denounced the infusion of Qatari cash into Gaza, suggesting that Hamas had debased the sacrifices of the fence protesters.
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" With shared truth debased and trust in leaders diminished, we now face a full-blown "crisis of authority itself," argued Seidman, who distinguishes between "formal authority" and "moral authority.
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As has now become paradigmatic in the show, robots come to realize their debased position in a human-dominated fantasy through the revelatory power of straight love and familial feeling.
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Add his verse here to his appearances on Chance the Rapper's Coloring Book cut "Mixtape" and D.R.A.M's perfect summer jam "Broccoli" and you have a debased trinity of hedonistic raps.
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It seemed to me that they lied about the world I knew, and debased it, and certainly I did not know anybody like them—as far as I could tell. . . .
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Yet here's the main thing William and the Man In Black have in common: They both recognize the park as a debased experiment, conducted by people with contempt for humanity.
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But Donald Trump has so debased the tone of the presidential race that there was hardly a murmur when President Enrique Peña Nieto of Mexico did just that this week.
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The president's looseness with the truth has debased the currency of trust that is needed in a crisis, and his continual disdain for our allies means we have fewer friends.
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This is a loaded one, designed to elicit a comparison between now and then that contrasts the debased currency of our current politics with the gold standard of the founding generation.
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He filmed her on his phone as he debased her, in videos so shocking the judge at his trial wouldn't allow some of them to be shown to the public gallery.
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College athletes must be amateurs, Emmert has claimed, because fans want to believe that said athletes are competing for pride, school, and the love of sport—and not filthy, debased lucre.
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Customers would need to buy dollars first before they buy planes from Boeing, and maybe they would rather buy an Airbus in debased euro before purchasing anything Boeing makes in dollars.
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We have to better understand why so many second generation and third generation Muslims feel so unsure of their place, and why this debased, politicized Islam offers such clarity and purpose.
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Teed had built a successful commune (the Koreshan Unity) in southwestern Florida with his puritanical critique of mainline churches, which, he argued, "prostituted" their members through the debased institution of marriage.
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Pledging to clean up government, reduce inequality and subdue gang violence, he promises to "transform" a country he says has been debased by the few at the expense of the many.
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Calling Kendall a "winner" because he debased himself feels a little perverse, but let me just say how terrific Jeremy Strong has been in the first two episodes of this season.
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CAVUTO: So, when you hear that it's not just someone like John Brennan, but Senator John McCain, saying that the president debased himself before a tyrant, what did you think of that?
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I would say that making historical comparisons is always a good intellectual exercise, but it gets debased when it is merely to score rhetorical points against your opponents, or to smear someone.
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The result was a sort of hypercapitalist Hunger Games, in which cities and states debased themselves in the hopes of reaping tens of thousands of jobs and several billion dollars in investment.
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The comment reflected his hostile views about women, his continued antagonism with the non-conservative press, and the debased kind of the language that he is willing to use in public. 6.
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Rapid growth, especially in the last decade, has debased much restaurant cooking, drowning the tastes and textures of dishes like fish-fragrant eggplant in gobs of acrid chile, oil and monosodium glutamate.
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Mr. Mnuchin and Gary Cohn, the White House's chief economic adviser, also debased their credibility last year by arguing with no evidence whatsoever that the Republican tax cut would pay for itself.
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With so many blacks in South Africa mired in poverty, the topic is urgent, but discussion about it has been debased by its association with a notorious and self-serving P.R. campaign.
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This rhetoric shouldn't deflect our attention from the fact that Trump has so debased his office that we are reduced to repeating his gutter language in order to address his unacceptable behavior.
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But in these times, highlights live forever, and so we see can all see, for one brief second, Harden's skill and style getting completely debased by his ambition to create two points.
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While Congress has dithered, the Federal Reserve has destroyed the value of the dollar, so much so that the metal value of our already much-debased token coinage now exceeds its face value.
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Ranjana would usually sough off the conversation and move to another topic; she wanted to insulate her legitimate enjoyment of the author's writing from any possibly racist observations that would have debased it.
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On the other hand, everyone secretly loves a pun, and, wonderfully, the worst are often as funny as the best, as the great punster Nabokov knew, because the genre is so democratically debased.
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In the 1980s, Ross Bleckner briefly reclaimed the easily mimicked, debased style of Op Art by making striped paintings with blurred edges, but never went on to further explore the possibilities of blurring.
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Locke was a voluptuary: he worried that Du Bois and the younger, further-left members of the movement—notably Hughes and McKay—had debased Negro expression, jamming it into the crate of politics.
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The rank partisanship displayed, the refusal to seek truth and the reduction of a seat on the Supreme Court to one more patronage plum are testimony to the debased state of our politics.
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"No one has debased the civil discourse in this country more than President Trump, and the president really does set the tone in the country," said Representative Adam B. Schiff, Democrat of California.
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No other sport will ever displace for me the beauty of baseball, and the game does not need to be distorted and debased to try to appease a hypothetical generation with attention deficits.
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Over the course of just five years, Menken went from being a beloved ingenue to a debased has-been; by the end of her career, Menken was seen as degraded, whorish, greedy, and frivolous.
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The single most urgent function of our Constitution is to ensure that the rights of those who lack the votes to enact policy are not wrongfully diminished or debased because of their minority status.
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" It "encouraged Republicans to present themselves as allies of the poor and minorities, and to insist that 'liberal elites' in the Democratic party were the defenders of ineffective bureaucracies and a morally debased culture.
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Is the sport enhanced or debased when the possibility of a successful layup or a dunk is skirted for a 3-point attempt by a player who might be converting roughly three in 10?
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Yet even by that debased standard, Mr. Trump's latest Twitter tantrum against Mr. Sessions, on Monday, set a new low, providing a kind of anti-civics lesson for the nation he's supposed to lead.
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But under the emperor Nero, starting in 64 A.D., the proportion of silver was reduced to 80 percent and the state made a tidy profit by recycling the all-silver denarii into debased ones.
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Having seen what fake news and trolling has done to public discourse in rich countries, many observers worry about politics being debased, from the polarisation of India's electorate to the persecution of Myanmar's Rohingya minority.
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Because isn't it time we eschewed the traditional British stereotype and embraced the truth: Britons are actually a debased, dark-cored, flawed group of people, and it's time we dropped the pretence that we're not.
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"Investors in the rest of the world are ... are swapping out of the debased euro and their lousy bonds with negative interest rates so they can have it their way in our market," Cramer said.
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In the Trump era, where the citizenry is being divided -- torn apart — and American life debased, courtesy of a charlatan posing as the leader of the free world, political art is more important than ever.
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Meanwhile, on economic policy, you could argue that Trump has debased libertarianism rather than disavowing it, following many prior Republicans in using the rhetoric of capitalism to champion favored business interests rather than free markets.
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Image: YouTube/The Alex Jones ChannelThe most accurate description of the shrieking pageantry we've come to know as InfoWars is that it's a dietary supplement business hiding behind a debased, unreliable, and exhaustingly stupid news network.
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Perhaps the only redeeming aspect of the disclosure of Donald Trump's lewd discussion on the Access Hollywood tape was that it shocked many people into the realization of how vulgar and debased our culture has become.
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But, until he died, he allowed us to inhabit his righteous and turgid, pure and debased universe, which he filled with the true and fake news of who we were, if only we would listen. ♦
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But have the Olympic Games really become so ruthlessly competitive, so commercialized, so socially insensitive or corrupt that one act of human compassion should be presented as a rare reproach to a sadly debased Olympic ideal?
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And we've seen, in recent years, what sharply drawn lines and perpetual warfare between the parties bequeath: legislative paralysis, debased discourse and the precise public disgust with politics and politicians that has given rise to Trump.
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Mr. Emanuel's predecessor, Richard M. Daley, who tore down what remained of Cabrini and began to replace old, debased developments with New Urbanist-style mixed-income ones, gave Chicago Millennium Park and loads of planted flowers.
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Mr. Graham isn't alone, of course; there is a long list of politicians who have debased themselves to please Mr. Trump, only to be abandoned by him like a sack of rotten fruit in the end.
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Before the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration debased itself Friday by siding with Trump, a top NOAA official gave staff the downright Orwellian warning not to contradict the president's bad take, according to the Washington Post.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Senator Bob Corker eviscerated President Donald Trump repeatedly on national television on Tuesday, calling him a liar who has debased the country in an extraordinary diatribe against a sitting president by a fellow Republican.
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Above all, it traces the relationships that emerged among leading republicans as the slums of Belfast slid into a many-sided war that debased everyone—relationships that soured after bombs gave way to politics in the 1990s.
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For the five years of Trump's campaign for political attention, leading up to the 2016 election, and for the first two years of his Administration, attempts to fight Trump on his debased terms have only strengthened him.
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At the first rehearsal, Sebastian once again finds his artistry debased by popular musical influences—the band features, God forbid, an electric guitar—but he sticks with it, thinking that Mia wants him to have steady work.
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The sight was strangely touching, a fitting display of unity in an age of debased political rhetoric: a Trump voter quietly discussing his emotional state with a liberal as bruises bloomed around the periphery of his diaper.
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Ranting about Auschwitz and the debased value of American culture, von Sydow's aging artist has worn down his former-student-turned-lover (Barbara Hershey), who wants to leave him while she still has a shot at romance.
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And Bayh, despite casting himself as a noble Cincinnatus, retreating from a political system that had debased itself, did not stray far from Washington, D.C. Instead, he stayed put, and made a boatload of money as a lobbyist.
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I love how she uses language in a poetic fashion to penetrate the horrors of fascism and the horrors of survival or of wanting to survive in a debased system that abuses human basic need: to just be.
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Partisan groups and panicked candidates trafficked in overblown fears, appealed to the worst in voters and debased themselves in pursuit of their prize — reasoning, I suppose, that dignity could be recovered on the far side of brutal victory.
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Only the most credulous investors will trust a currency issued by Venezuela's socialist regime, which has debased the bolívar, expropriated private enterprises, ridden roughshod over the country's constitution and faces sanctions from the United States and the European Union.
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Decades of inflation and a much-debased rupee have pushed savers towards what is, in effect, a convenient way to insulate their nest-egg from the poor decisions of India's policymakers (and, just as often, from its tax inspectors).
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Williams had a deportation bus ad filmed for YouTube and for TV. So incendiary and morally repulsive was this ad that YouTube â€" one of our most debased platforms â€" took it down because it violated hate speech guidelines.
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Campaign contributions, contributing to a challenger, or simply being in the opposition party are all smeared as the work of the mob -- that mass of people too angry, too unreasoning and too debased to participate in the public sphere.
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But instead, they held a months long public contest where cities and states debased themselves offering more and more extravagant tax breaks, and then picked the city where they could do the most immediate harm to everyone that currently lives there.
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Self-help, which I like a lot, is "debased" only insofar as it is prepared to stop [once you reach your target weight or attitude or whatever], or to say that there is a single answer that works for everyone.
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Devolver is no stranger to controversy; it has published and helped develop dozens of games and many of them have featured the kind of graphic violence that sets off those who still see the medium as a corruptive, fundamentally debased one.
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Reality TV has debased our entertainment; social media have made our interactions shallower; and journalism's abandonment of the editorial function has made the truth that much more elusive, and erased the distinction between what is vital and what is trivial.
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I hope every living former president speaks out together to protect the nation from being further debased by a president who never learned that the truth sets us free, our Americanism binds us together and our unity keeps us safe.
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Still, that pre-pubescent sense of dis-ease and uncertainty haunts me to this day, and every time I see DJ Fanny's name pop up on the internet, I'm there again, a lost innocent hurtling headfirst into a world of debased depravity.
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" Ingraham tossed to a clip of Wallace on MSNBC earlier Monday, where the ex-communications director for former President George W. Bush argued that President Trump had "debased" the office "in a way that's unimaginable for people who served the last president.
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The iconography is familiarly national and symbolic, from Alberto Korda's classic photograph of Che Guevara (1960) to Juan Francisco Elso's "Pan America (José Martí)" (1986), but also parodied (Alejandro Aguilera's "Che and Carlos Santana" [19533]) and debased (Tomás Esson's scatological "Cuban Flag" [1990]).
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From his early days in Hobart playing in Mouth and Sea Scouts, to Bird Blobs in Melbourne and then to Brooklyn's debased Degreaser, Evans has built a reputation as a unique live performer and songwriter that digs deep into darker emotional recesses.
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Reading historians like Thucydides, Gibbon, or Caro provides tonic reminders that tribal hysteria is an ancient and predictable disease, that once-respectable republics have debased themselves before, that the resistance to basic human decency in this country has always been fierce and self-righteous.
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Imagine a distant future in which autonomous systems have taken over the world and knowledge of their creation and internal processes has been lost (or you could just play Horizon: Zero Dawn) — this simple trap might appear to our poor debased descendants to be magic.
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Offering insight into how Indian captives sought to escape their debased status, linguists trace the origins of the word Genízaro to the Ottoman Empire's janissaries, the special soldier class of Christians from the Balkans who converted to Islam, and were sometimes referred to as slaves.
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Coffey offers a lusher counterpoint, incorporating such disparate strands as an imaginary baseball game, a critical essay on Beckett (who won the Nobel in 1969) and "The U.S. Army Field Manual on Interrogation," which itself reads like directions for an absurd and debased theatrical production.
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" She lambasted colleagues on both sides of the aisle for "irresponsible words of bitterness and selfish political opportunism," saying the Senate itself, "as the greatest deliberative body in the world" had become "debased to the level of a forum of hate and character assassination.
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" AND NOW, A WORD FROM CHARLES… "There could be no greater irony: For all the sublimity of art, physics, music, mathematics and other manifestations of human genius, everything depends on the mundane, frustrating, often debased vocation known as politics (and its most exacting subspecialty – state craft).
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Barack ObamaBarack Hussein ObamaDick Cheney to attend fundraiser supporting Trump reelection: report Forget conventional wisdom — Bernie Sanders is electable 2020 Democrats fight to claim Obama's mantle on health care MORE betrayed himself and his administration debased American values by allowing genocide in Syria with absolutely no response.
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The biggest day on the American sports calendar means one of the biggest traffic surges for online publishers, who have debased themselves year after year in pursuit of the honor of answering the following question more often than their competitors: What time does the dang game start?
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Trump's nomination in 2016 reflected a collapse on the part of the institutional GOP, which ultimately had no choice but to capitulate to its voters and embrace the combination of debased servility and rank fascism that was previously allowed to remain latent in Republican political appeals.
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It is that our long odyssey toward liberty, democracy and freedom-for-all may be achieved in such a way that utopia remains forever closed, and we live in freedom and hell, debased of style, not individual from one another, void of courage, our fear rationalized away.
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First, he uses an aggressive, antisocial humor to comment on a public discourse that seldom involves the exchange of free ideas and information, as well as incorporates a destabilized, debased form of language that is capable of suggesting multiple readings and is at odds with itself.
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At least in the world of traditional tapers, there is a premium placed on recording quality, but it is equally the domain of debased and marginalized formats, from wire recorders to reels, from cassettes to minidiscs, and the never-ending race to preserve the music contained on them.
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Although the aestheticizing of politics is hardly a new topic—Walter Benjamin discussed it in the nineteen-thirties, as did Mann—Pyta pursues the theme at magisterial length, showing how Hitler debased the Romantic cult of genius to incarnate himself as a transcendent leader hovering above the fray.
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The most urgent and important item on the Legislature's to-do list this year should have been reforming a debased political culture that most recently resulted in the convictions of New York's top two legislative leaders — the former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and the former Senate leader Dean Skelos.
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Though the White House argues that the case has nothing to do with Trump, it is also ironic that Manafort, who masterminded the delegate strategy for a man who vowed in 2016 to "drain the swamp," is being portrayed as one of the capital quagmire's most debased big beasts.
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Audiophiles complain that the digital era, with its rampant copy-paste ethos and jumble of old and new formats, is an age of debased sound: lossy audio files created from nth-generation transfers; cheap vinyl reissues, marketed to analog-fetishists but pressed up from sludgy non-analog sources.
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Don YoungDonald (Don) Edwin YoungHouse passes bill requiring CBP to enact safety, hygiene standards GOP scores procedural win by securing more funding to enforce Iran sanctions Ex-GOP lawmakers are face of marijuana blitz MORE (R-Alaska) debased the Holocaust by comparing it to a gun-control debate.
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Mr. McCain, who died Saturday at 81, spent more than a half-century trying to teach us about torture — that it produces faulty intelligence, that "every man has a breaking point," that military personnel derive a motivational pride from America having higher moral standards than its debased adversaries.
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" Zervos's suit, which she announced with her lawyer Gloria Allred last January, claims that Trump "debased and denigrated" her when she came forward "to inform the public of the facts she knew were true, to make clear that Donald Trump had kissed and groped her without her consent, repeatedly.
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There is a kind of audacity to loosely guarding a literal pile of gold, based on the social pact of veneration for works of art — especially when the artist has intentionally obscured and debased the material that has cost innumerable real lives through the centuries, and continues to do so today.
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Heck said that he considers President TrumpDonald John TrumpBiden assures supporters the primary is still 'wide open' in lengthy phone call: report Warren: We are watching a descent into authoritarianism Collins: Trump 'angered by impeachment' MORE to be a symptom of a "completely debased civic discourse," the roots of which predated his presidency.
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Having dangled 50,000 jobs and $10 billion in investment in a proposed second headquarters in front of every struggling city and municipality in the country, they sat back as lawmakers debased themselves in a race-to-the-bottom to see who could offer the largest set of tax breaks and other incentives.
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This is a bad day for a handful of senior officials within our government, the Democrats who worked so strenuously to keep this information from the light of day, and those in the media who have debased their craft to serve the Russia collusion narrative with no hint of skepticism or even-handedness.
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It has taken me six years to feel comfortable sharing my story on social media, where a couple dozen, perhaps a couple hundred people will read it — I cannot imagine sharing it with the same male-dominated Senate committee that publicly debased a similarly bold woman with a similarly difficult story 27 years ago.
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"I feel like I'm living in a parallel universe, I can't believe that this country is ethically this debased," said Cathie Longan, an activist who was making phone calls Friday in a suburban Detroit field office filled with blue-hued pamphlets for the Democratic ticket and decorated with a "Hop On The Blue Wave" banner.
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And if the president openly admits that he was looking toward future business opportunities in Russia in the event he lost the 2016 election, it's equally unsafe to assume he isn't doing so right now with respect to the 2020 election — or that American policy toward Russia isn't being softened, restrained, bent and debased accordingly.
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This is a particularly low moment in a campaign that Trump debased long ago, but it also presents Obama and his presumptive heir, Hillary Clinton, an opportunity to flesh out their closing argument ahead of election day: that as bad as Trump is, he is a creation of and standard-bearer for the rest of the Republican Party.
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Cramer Remix: What Apple should buy next Cramer: Buy the railroads if the Fed says this... Cramer: Charts predict S&P bounce will end soon Customers would need to buy dollars first before they buy planes from Boeing, and maybe they would rather buy an Airbus in debased euro before purchasing anything Boeing makes in dollars.
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What's oddly touching as the movie goes on is the sense that everyone must force themselves to operate in a cynical mode—in politics or publishing, people keep agreeing, integrity is an embarrassing irrelevance—in order to conform to reality and its conditions, but most all of them have other, less debased commitments they are trying to protect.
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If you're grossed out by the utter charmlessness and moral squalor of a year's worth of debased political self-indulgence, a perfect antidote is "The Crown," Netflix's compulsively watchable dramatization of the life of Queen Elizabeth II, served up on a silver platter by dramatist Peter Morgan ("The Queen") and the director and producer Stephen Daldry ("The Audience").
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From the White Castles, grungy Irish bars and sneaker emporiums of Fordham Road to the graffitied subway cars rattling downtown to the record shops and women's bookstores of the Village, the Russian groceries of Ocean Parkway, the still-debased precincts of Times Square, even the water towers crouching on rooftops like guardian pets, I loved it all.
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I found a new principle in the writing of the philosopher Justin Khoo, a young professor at MIT, who recommends what he calls "discursive intolerance" as a way of rescuing Mill's marketplace of ideas when the market throngs with scoundrels selling false goods and making debased change, and anarchists labor in cellars on bombs that will explode the marketplace completely.
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In our coffee shops, outside our kids' schools, on the internet, performing our tributes to the brilliance of the film, recounting every joke made at the expense of a family of white liberal elites who flaunted their own wokeness to mask their true agenda, a plot so chillingly debased that once it was finally revealed, we were absolutely terrified by it.
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Political discourse has been cheapened and denigrated by Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE; the standards have been lowered and debased by this president.
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Permissionless cryptocurrencies, of which Bitcoin will possibly-to-likely remain the most prominent, aren't going away, but will be used in limited albeit significant circumstances: as digital gold; as an international transfer currency for individuals and small businesses; to skirt and avoid the law and the taxman; but not really on an everyday basis, except in nations whose own currencies have been seriously debased.
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This sense of failure is discernible in much of his oeuvre, for instance, in his 19833 series Seventy-Four Garbage Drawings and One Bush, based on George Baker's Korean War-era Sad Sack comic strip, and in the exhibitions Lumpenprole (21983) and Riddle of the Sphinx (2547-225), in which stuffed animals under blankets create lumpy, abject surfaces, physical manifestations of Marx's theory of the debased lumpenproletariat.
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Jeff FlakeJeffrey (Jeff) Lane FlakeArpaio considering running for former sheriff job after Trump pardon Overnight Energy: Warren edges past Sanders in poll of climate-focused voters | Carbon tax shows new signs of life | Greens fuming at Trump plans for development at Bears Ears monument Carbon tax shows new signs of life in Congress MORE (R-Ariz.) said Trump had "debased the presidency with his "bottomless appetite for destruction and degradation.
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In Ball, Trump sees his equal, a carnival barker expert at getting his face on TV. Trump has so debased the office he won in November and lowered the standards of decency, it would make sense if he called up his pals in the WWE and asked if he and Ball could stage a fight in which they got to pummel each other the way Trump did before he became the most powerful man in the world.
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The whole point of animals is to take your soft edges away, prove you can be responsible, that you can keep something that requires very little true upkeep alive, and that animal will reward you with blind, loyal, unconditional love, and you will use that love and take it into your body and crush it into something ugly, something dark, you will take that animal's love for you and turn it into a deep and debased thirst for Instagram likes.
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They're one of the crucial things that make us human, by bringing us to the empathy and sense of connection that enable us to treat one another with respect and kindness; they're one of the major factors that enable social mobility, by giving us the vision and sense of possibility to transform our lives; they're one of the vital ways we can make sense of our own emotions and experiences, rather than being baffled and battered by them; they're one of the core forces that raise us from a ragtag bunch of debased animals, ready to rip out one another's throat for any reason or none, into a cohesive society.
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