We need to spend a little more time considering the perverseness of these economic metaphors.
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The perverseness of a field that practically defines the idea of "elite" yet also often tries to protest that it's for everyone is the main locus of Östlund's jabs, though he's not really suggesting we ought to burn it all down.
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"Because you have despised His word and trust in perverseness and oppression, and say thereon ... therefore this iniquity will be to you as a breach ready to fall, swell out in a high wall, whose breaking cometh suddenly at an instance,'" Moore said, quoting Isaiah 30:12-13.
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The blatantness of its rhetorical devices and the perverseness of its address create discomfort for serious theorists.
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This has significantly contributed to her fear of boys. Kanako is almost solely interested in girls in regards to her ideal romantic relationships. She instantly and constantly suffers from nosebleeds—a visible indication of sexual perverseness frequently used in anime and manga. Her reason for transferring to Ame no Kisaki is to look for her one true love.
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"Papal Resignations"', Olivier Guyotjeannin, The Papacy: An Encyclopedia, Vol. 3, ed. Philippe Levillain, (Taylor & Francis, 2002), 1305. In the formal instrument of renunciation, he recited as the causes moving him to the step: "The desire for humility, for a purer life, for a stainless conscience, the deficiencies of his own physical strength, his ignorance, the perverseness of the people, his longing for the tranquility of his former life".
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LaSalle also praised the film's comedic scenes and called it "the funniest movie so far this year [2009]". Betsy Sharkey of the Los Angeles Times praised the film for its perverseness. Sharkey also said that the film is "filled with moments as softhearted as they are crude, as forgiving as unforgivable". Although Joe Leydon of Variety criticized the film's trailers and TV-spots for its "beer-and-boobs, party-hearty farce", he also praised the film for its cleverness.
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In this case I will, with your approbation, assume > command. Then our affairs will be concluded to the satisfaction of the whole > company, without being any longer liable to the obstruction they now meet > from the Captain's perverseness and chicanery.Pack, S (1964), p. 88 Cheap refused to sign Bulkley's letter, and armed seamen entered his hut on 9 October and bound him, claiming that he was now their prisoner and they were taking him to England for trial for the murder of Cozens.
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Rava replied that the Israelites walked in integrity, for speaks of the Jews when it says, "The integrity of the upright shall guide them." But of others, who walked in perversity, says, "but the perverseness of the treacherous shall destroy them."Babylonian Talmud Shabbat 88a–b, in, e.g., Talmud Bavli: Tractate Shabbos: Volume 3, elucidated by Yosef Asher Weiss, Michoel Weiner, Asher Dicker, Abba Zvi Naiman, Yosef Davis, and Israel Schneider, edited by Yisroel Simcha Schorr, volume 5, pages 88a–b.
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Already in Venice she is sought by countless suitors, among them the base Florez, whom her father forbids the house. One suitor, who is Florez's friend, Don Ferdinand, resigns his suit, but Idalia's vanity is piqued at the loss of an even a single adorer, and more from perverseness than from love she continues to correspond with him. She meets him, and he eventually effects her ruin. His beloved friend, Henriquez conducts her to Padua, but becomes the victim of her charms; he quarrels with Ferdinand, and they eventually kill each other in a duel.
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F. Andrews, 1853. > ... he experienced all the evils of insubordination among the troups, > perverseness in the militia, inactivity in the officers, disregard of > orders, and reluctance in the civil authorities to render a proper support. > And what added to his mortification was, that the laws gave him no power to > correct these evils, either by enforcing discipline, or compelling the > indolent and refractory to their duty ... The militia system was suited for > only to times of peace. It provided for calling out men to repel invasion; > but the powers granted for effecting it were so limited, as to be almost > inoperative.
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The food supply would become inadequate for the growing population, and then: > ...the mighty law of self-preservation expels all the softer and more > exalted emotions of the soul.... The corn is plucked before it is ripe, or > secreted in unfair proportions; and the whole black train of vices that > belong to falsehood are immediately generated. Provisions no longer flow in > for the support of the mother with a large family. The children are sickly > from insufficient food.... No human institutions here existed, to the > perverseness of which Mr. Godwin ascribes the original sin of the worst men. > No opposition had been produced by them between public and private good.
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By the second year of his reign, Reccared embraced Catholicism and began the task of unifying the Spanish people under a single religion. The spirit of Ingund and the example of Hermenegild is believed to have had an influence on Spanish society, and particularly on the new king Reccared.Gibbons, 318 Reccared's lack of support for his father's actions against Hermenegild and the retribution he took on his brother's executioner is evidence of a bond between the two brothers. Pope Gregory's words further confirm Hermenegild's influence: "Reccared, following not his faithless father but his martyr brother, was converted from the perverseness of the Arian heresy."E.
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This suggests that the 'perverseness' attached to homosexuality in mainland China is not purely informed by a biological discourse, but, depending on the circumstances, can also be informed by accepted notions of cultural and social legitimacy. The influence of Western gay and lesbian culture on China's culture is complex. While Western ideas and conceptions of gayness have begun to permeate the Chinese gay and lesbian identity, some Chinese gay and lesbian activists have pushed back against the mainstream politics of asserting one's own identity and pushing for social change due to its disruption of "family ties and social harmony."Ho, Loretta Wing Wah (2010).
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The Imp of the Perverse is the title of Jeffrey Ching's Second Symphony. It is in a single fantasy-like movement lasting about fifteen minutes. The title comes from a story by Edgar Allan Poe, from which these lines serve as epigraph to the score: > I am not more certain that I breathe, than that the assurance of the wrong > or error of any action is often the one unconquerable force which impels us, > and alone impels us to its prosecution… In the case of that something which > I term perverseness, the desire to be well is not only not aroused, but a > strongly antagonistical sentiment exists.
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295 During the exile of the Liberals from power he went still farther on the path of free trade, and anticipated Lord John Russell's declaration against the corn laws. When, on Sir Robert Peel's resignation in December 1845, Lord John Russell was called upon to form a ministry, Howick, who had become Earl Grey by the death of his father in the preceding July, refused to enter the new cabinet if Lord Palmerston were foreign secretary.See J. R. Thursfield in vol i, and Hon. F. H. Baring in vol xxiii, of the English Historical Review He was greatly censured for perverseness, and particularly when in the following July he accepted Lord Palmerston as a colleague without remonstrance.
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