| 单词 | venal |
| 例句 | “But pride, venal pride, got the better of you. And to think, all this time we could’ve been working together toward a common good!” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z To counter the sordid image created by Burns and the old school of venal detectives, Hoover adopted the approach of Progressive thinkers who advocated for ruthlessly efficient systems of management. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z There was something venal about his thin-lipped face; he had the air of a man to whom corruption was familiar. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Nor did the venal mayor of Fairfax—an ally of Hale’s who also served as a guardian. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z If in the course of it, you can make your opponents sound venal or even deranged, so much the better. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z Is it because young people today are uniquely shallow and venal? Shooting the Iron Lady 2011-07-10T21:50:01Z The guest players are venal and broadly comic. TV Weekend: Scenes from the Class Struggle, with Downton Abbey and House of Lies 2012-01-06T16:54:11Z It’s an elegant, melancholic affair and I liked the way Eisenberg’s hero – initially installed as a wide-eyed innocent – actually turns out to be more venal and less likable than Carell’s wheeler-dealer. Cannes 2016 week one report: surreal scenes at the Palais 2016-05-15T04:00:00Z The world of fakery is shabby, venal and unromantic. Can you love a fake piece of art? 2012-06-03T23:24:04Z And glorious language, artfully structured, can overpower what’s limited and banal, even venal. Even Margo Jefferson Sometimes Gets Sucked Into a Bad Thriller 2022-04-07T04:00:00Z Such venal characters need a naif for balance: enter Rose Byrne as Ellen Parsons, fresh out of law school, as Patty's assistant. Damages 2010-05-28T07:00:00Z It’s also an amusing study in how intellectuals become neutered and co-opted through venal self-interest. For Ideologues in Silicon Valley, Everything Is Just Right 2020-11-10T05:00:00Z The rural gentry and village hoi polloi of “Midsomer” are reliably smug, venal and pretentious, and a fair share of the murders seem largely justified, if still regrettable. DVD: New DVDs: ‘Midsomer Murders,’ ‘George Gently’ 2012-06-29T21:58:00Z In Ms. Bailey’s operatically gruesome vision, enhanced by elaborate digital imagery suggesting a lurid video game set in ancient Rome, depraved humanity gets the flawed, venal and corrupt leaders it deserves. | 'Julius Caesar': Cry Havoc! The Blood Sport Called Politics 2011-07-31T22:23:03Z Like all of us, museums are stitched tight into the fabric of a messy, venal, Darwinian world. America’s Big Museums on the Hot Seat 2020-03-18T04:00:00Z For reasons both venal and understandable, Cogburn doesn't want to take a teenage girl into the Choctaw Nation, where he suspects Chaney is hiding out with a band of known ruffians. "True Grit": A ferocious heroine in a classic western 2010-12-22T02:01:00Z In one heartbreakingly venal passage, Powell thrills at Damian's audacity in pretending to be Eric for an eager reader who recognizes her on the street. 2010-01-08T21:05:00Z No politician shines as brightly or behaves at their most crass and venal as they do when they’re dancing for votes and money. The dagger-sharp satire of HBO's "Veep," returning for its final season, feels all too real now 2019-03-30T04:00:00Z For all the occasional vehemence in the music and all the talk of feeling, there is little real emotion until the end, when the Art Banker repents for her venal meddling in history and science. The Operas ‘Facing Goya’ and ‘Katya Kabanova,’ at Spoleto 2014-05-27T04:00:00Z She considered a fashion career but soon decided that the industry was too venal. Anita Pallenberg, Actress and Muse of Rolling Stones, Dies at 73 2017-06-14T04:00:00Z “Hung” covers economic inequity as sharply as it delves into the comedy of sexual frustration, and Anne Heche is terrific as Ray’s venal ex-wife. The Week Ahead: June 27 ? July 3 2010-06-25T15:46:00Z His Devereaux at once venal and bemused, monstrous and vulnerable, not least during the extended strip search inside the US prison. Cannes 2014 review: Welcome to New York - Depardieu's grunting triumph exposes more than just himself 2014-05-18T04:00:00Z The “what do women want?” question recurs, and in Avery’s case, the answer, each time, turns out to be kind of venal. From ‘Ben-Hur’ to ‘Hop,’ Slim Pickings From the Easter Bunny’s Basket 2018-03-30T04:00:00Z If you're an American author and you want a gig at the Royal Court or buzz in Edinburgh, obey the three V's in portraying Americans: venal, vulgar, violent. Why doesn't Broadway love Enron? 2010-04-29T11:33:00Z The American baritone Scott Hendricks, making his house debut as Scarpia, was altogether more gripping and credible here, with lots of the requisite snap and snarl in his voice, and a suitably venal stage presence. Tosca – review 2013-07-10T18:20:00Z "The judges considered at length the merits of JK Rowling's The Casual Vacancy," the Literary Review said, "but ultimately concluded that the book's sins were venal compared with the competition." Tom Wolfe up for bad sex prize 2012-11-20T15:21:56Z "Twelve" is about a pack of rich, venal and utterly abhorrent 17-year-olds obsessed with money, drugs and their own reprehensible lives. 'Twelve': Rich kids, drugs and a downer of a melodrama 2010-08-05T20:30:00Z There are feints and false leads on the way to exposure: Keller has been accused of the crime and exonerated; his motives are not merely venal. All My Sons; Henry VIII; Paradise Found 2010-05-29T23:05:00Z Sometimes, after all, the corrupt, venal heathens simply need to be banished. Against “Against [X]” 2014-08-27T04:00:00Z Witnessing Seehorn sink into the venal side of Kim is jolting – especially if you have walked slowly with her and the rest of the ensemble through previous seasons. When it comes "Better Call Saul," we should be in no hurry for it to end 2022-04-18T04:00:00Z In a venal world, we've lost sight of the good things. This week's new live music 2013-04-06T05:00:15Z It's a lie that the British press wants to be told that LA is very shallow, glitzy, venal, superficial, all that stuff. Hugh Laurie: 'There's a sensual pleasure involved in making music that I just can't get from acting' 2013-05-05T18:00:02Z Ms. Maurery has great fun with the character, a tricky part because Maria nearly always maintains a kindhearted veneer, even at her most venal. Review: ‘The Teacher,’ a Classroom Satire on Political Corruption 2017-08-29T04:00:00Z And you’re sucked into wanting Sandy and Diana to start bonding, to become pals and do the inevitable teaching-each-other-lessons bit, if only to liberate this extraordinarily likable actress from such a gross and venal role. Identity Thief: The Wrath of Con 2013-02-07T20:30:29Z The more glaring exception is Washington, where there is apparently nothing sexist or old school about painting women as venal, self-serving and manipulative. Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Prime Time’s Other Women in Power 2014-05-02T12:00:01Z Even the venal clods burst to complicated life. Guerrilla Gardeners Meet Billionaire Doomsayer. Hurly-Burly Ensues. 2023-03-13T04:00:00Z Sins, however venal, will be duly punished by the brutal hand of fate. Review: In ‘The Layover,’ Strangers on a Plane and Missed Connections 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z But this time, amid a pandemic greatly exacerbated by government incompetence and venal leadership, nothing seemed funny. Perspective | I returned to the National Gallery seeking comfort. But art no longer feels like an escape. 2020-10-06T04:00:00Z Not only is she positively venal, but she also acquires horns. Spare Times for Children for March 20-26 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z Of a show about four venal, navel-gazing, pathologically narcissistic individuals without a single redeeming feature among them? Jerry Seinfeld the highest-earning comedian? You have to be kidding me 2013-07-14T18:30:00Z The best performance is Josh Pais as Ira, the band’s blandly venal manager. Review: In ‘Sex&Drugs&Rock&Roll,’ Denis Leary Is an Aging Rocker 2015-07-15T04:00:00Z In my book, I argue that while the Churchills may have been venal and dishonest, much of their money came from Sarah’s astute and underappreciated investing in the stock market. The real women of "The Favourite" included an 18th-century Warren Buffett 2019-02-23T05:00:00Z A small dog turns up just in time to help Bee escape the venal carnival owner, Ellis, who wants her for a freak. Fiction for older children – reviews 2013-07-27T13:00:00Z Religious ideology and professions of faith, especially Catholic ones, are lampooned as idiotic and venal, but the satire will likely infuriate traditional believers of any stripe. Review: In ‘Mankind,’ Men Are Men and Women Are Extinct 2018-01-08T05:00:00Z It cannot be unknown to you, Sir, that our intentions have been vilified, and our characters traduced by the unprincipled scribes, of a venal and corrupt press. Women's role at Peterloo revisited in Manchester anniversary walk 2012-08-15T09:33:47Z Ribowsky also takes some shots at the record industry — “one of the most venal and soulless entities ever known” — and delves deep into the competition between Stax and Motown Records. ‘Dreams to Remember’ review: An homage to Otis Redding 2015-08-28T04:00:00Z When Natha's scheme is publicised, the reactions of the venal politicians, the media and the minister for agriculture are mercilessly satirised. Peepli Live 2010-09-25T23:06:00Z Turns out, though, everyone is venal, from the scheming rich to the scheming poor. The Week Ahead: June 24 — 30 2012-06-26T05:01:01Z It’s not the kind of line we would expect from one of the crass, venal middlemen Hollywood tends to enjoy portraying. ‘Call My Agent!’ Puts a Human Spin on Show Business 2021-01-20T05:00:00Z Politics is a fine profession, if rarely noble: writing about politics, I defend politicians regularly from a general contempt that they are venal, self-interested, unprincipled rogues. Polly Toynbee: What I am thinking about ... envy 2012-08-25T08:08:56Z The question facing a Britain polarised between youth-led masses and a venal political establishment is: why won't the 6 Music rebels man the barricades now there's something more important to save than their own jobs? While Britain rails against the government, the music world remains silent 2010-12-08T16:21:00Z “I was anticipating hearing horror stories about this venal, cheap crook,” Mr. Hanks said. Baz Luhrmann Is Ready for Rhinestones, Cadillacs, Dr. Feelgood and a Svengali 2022-05-21T04:00:00Z This is a perfect film for the age of Donald Trump, a revenge fantasy perpetrated against elites, who are caricatured as venal, corrupt and beyond redemption. Perspective | Netflix’s ‘Velvet Buzzsaw’ is a revenge fantasy against elites — making it perfect for the age of Trump 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z If you take the characters seriously or at their word, a mistake for such a dissembling, venal group, you may think that this is just another story about the dirty business of making movies. Movie Review: ‘The Canyons’ Is an Erotic Thriller With Lindsay Lohan 2013-08-01T17:11:39Z His depiction of that country’s venal, hypocritical colonists grappling with “the everlasting sense of being a liar” scared off British publishers for more than a year. | 'Burmese Days': ?Burmese Days? at 59E59 Theaters - Review 2011-11-17T03:03:15Z An alternative version might be that the whole thing is a cosy conspiracy of mediocrity perpetrated by Oxbridge directors, venal producers and supine critics foisting their suspect taste on the culturally browbeaten theatre-going public. Find a play. Squat a building. Steal a van. Now make a show 2010-06-28T14:04:00Z A very venal oil company offers them $2,000 each to drive trucks loaded with nitroglycerine over rough mountain roads to an oilfield that is on fire. The Wages of Fear: No 8 2010-10-19T10:47:00Z Richard III's venal nature wasn't hard to gather, despite the passage of 400 years and the play's thick, flowery language. 'Richard III' goes to prisons, senior centers 2012-08-02T12:48:10Z One is a series of imagined “Art Market Research” surveys filled out by cartoonishly venal collectors. We took John Waters to a John Waters art exhibit in Baltimore 2018-11-21T05:00:00Z It's Always Sunny features what must be the most venal, least lovable gang yet assembled on TV – in a sitcom, at least. It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia 2010-05-14T07:00:00Z Over five seasons, he has played the unscrupulous lawyer Jimmy McGill on his downward path to becoming the venal Saul Goodman, the character he introduced on “Breaking Bad.” Better Call an Ambulance: Bob Odenkirk Is Out for Revenge in ‘Nobody’ 2021-03-24T04:00:00Z Hammond isn’t the villain — Wayne Knight’s venal tech guy and Martin Ferrero’s cynical lawyer are the designated baddies — because of his sincere idealism. ‘Jurassic Park’: Where the Wild Things Are 2020-07-02T04:00:00Z Television politicians these days are mostly venal, their cutthroat egoism wrung for drama on “Scandal” and for laughs on “Veep.” Kiefer Sutherland Returns. This Time the Oval Office Is His. 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z If Nabokov had ever had dark, venal thoughts like those of Humbert Humbert’s, they remained thoughts, or words on a page. How ‘Lolita’ Escaped Obscenity Laws and Cancel Culture 2021-03-02T05:00:00Z You may well hate the murderously venal Berlin station chief — though I still can’t bring myself to — but you’ve got to love the artistry with which she has been depicted. ‘Homeland’ Season 5, Episode 9 Recap: It’s Going to Be O.K. 2015-11-29T05:00:00Z However, Mr Barrett paints his protagonist as a well-meaning tragic hero undone by hubris rather than a venal con man. Murky truth 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z It’s a venal embrace, but also one of shared ardor. ‘The Billionaire Raj’ Review: Gatsby on the Ganges 2018-07-04T04:00:00Z No murderous monster but a venal brute nonetheless, the General is enraged to learn that Catherine is not the heiress he assumed and packs her off with unchivalrous haste. A puppet version of Jane Austen's 'Northanger Abbey' is modest success 2014-12-09T05:00:00Z Without that wilderness, Florida will become what Williams accuses it of being: a cotton-candy county-fair fantasy, the same sideshow attraction suggested by the most eccentric and venal of characters in Pittman’s stories. Jeff VanderMeer on the beauty and weirdness of Florida 2016-07-22T04:00:00Z You sometimes wonder what a Gregory Porter song would sound like if it complicated the picture by not being entirely positive: not venal or cruel, but maybe just a little bit ravenous, vain, impatient. Music Review: Gregory Porter, a Grammy Winner, at Town Hall 2014-02-16T20:47:48Z The people of Greece were not free of venal corruptions any more than Latin America was free of brutal dictatorships, but it was easier to appeal to America’s preference for the moral high ground. How the United States Achieved World Leadership 2018-10-19T04:00:00Z “Instead, Baltz cuts to the sociological quick. This use of the land is not evil because it is merely venal, but because it is rational.” Lewis Baltz, Photographer of American Landscapes, Dies at 69 2014-11-25T05:00:00Z Nearly everyone in it is venal, petty, grasping, vicious, bent on serving heaping cold platters of revenge. Books of The Times: The Supersnooper Pursuing the Paranoid Politician 2010-09-28T22:31:00Z He described the constant attention as "sort of snarky and venal and kind of overwhelming." Ben Affleck glad to be family man, not tab target 2012-06-22T16:46:05Z With a dozen vigorous or venal characters blasting away and exposing dread family secrets, the Madea Christmas show is a calculatingly naïve, occasionally spectacular entertainment, well worth catching on Amazon or Netflix. Tyler Perry’s A Madea Christmas: How Low Can You Go? 2013-12-13T20:39:26Z How unashamed they were of the venal lives they were living is just amazing to me.” Kenneth Lonergan’s Thwarted Masterpiece 2012-06-19T19:43:37Z It’s hard to imagine Florence, cradle of the High Renaissance of early modern Europe, without its avaricious, venal, culture-conscious first family, the Medici. For the Medici, the Last Great Picture Show 2021-06-24T04:00:00Z Not all of the venal characters here have brown skin or foreign accents, and, in one thread, anti-Muslim bigotry, not radical terror, is the problem. Review: In ‘24: Legacy,’ Jack Bauer’s Gone. The Demons Are the Same. 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z Ah, the political maneuvering, the unbridled ambition and the venal efforts to dispose of one's rivals. Triple play: 3 engaging Shakespeare shows in Puget Sound parks 2012-07-26T19:53:04Z Blood — viscous and dark, venal and menstrual — soaks all the way through “Perpetrator,” Jennifer Reeder’s hyperbolic stab at the high school slasher movie. ‘Perpetrator’ Review: Campy, Creepy and Buckets of Blood 2023-08-24T04:00:00Z This is not to say that all of us, even all of our officials, are simply venal. Disaster aid: how US charity begins at home 2013-01-11T20:00:16Z Betty is often a terrible person, venal and incurious and irritable and petulant. Mad Men Recap: You Can’t Stop Cold Like That 2013-06-24T14:13:10Z World-altering events emerge not from grand notions of justice but from venal acts of self-preservation — lovers hiding a shameful affair, say, or an old woman scuttling her granddaughter’s marriage to a terrible person. ArtsBeat: ‘Game of Thrones’ Watch: Arguments in Family Court 2014-05-12T03:53:49Z The literalness of the exercise emphasizes the slipperiness of time, shining a garish spotlight on mortality and lending a tragic depth to the most venal of reunion specials. Victory Speech (Hillary’s Version) 2021-12-22T05:00:00Z Except that this means, by the venal standards of the Joseon court, a time of proper rule. Seoul searching: how politics plays out in South Korean cinema 2012-11-07T13:31:27Z A deliberately cheap, acidic sitcom set in an Irish dive bar, it stars a gang of venal borderline alcoholics who would be actively hateful if they weren’t so hilarious. It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia: from humble sitcom to pop-culture giant 2017-05-08T04:00:00Z You've been so famous and – apologies for crassness – so rich for so long, you must have encountered a lot of venal people with less than good-hearted intentions. Dolly Parton: 'I may look fake but I'm real where it counts' 2011-08-21T19:00:00Z The idea that the EU could inspire an uprising seemed odd to some observers; Mr Kurkov makes clear that, to Ukrainians weary of venal government, Europe represents the rule of law. I witness 2014-08-07T04:00:00Z In Colvin she is made to deliver her labored annunciations in service of playing a working-class girl motivated to take down venal big-city bosses because they essentially ruined her father’s life. Television Review: Stirring Chicago?s Corruption Stockpot 2011-02-06T20:30:11Z Nearly every line from Trump, in “A Very Stable Genius,” is this venal. A Meticulous Account of Trump’s Tenure Reads Like a Comic Horror Story 2020-01-16T05:00:00Z It features venal politicians, dubious journalists, a public health scandal and insider dealing. Public Enemy; These Shining Lives; The Hothouse – review 2013-05-18T23:07:16Z You ask yourself what venal, grasping, backward looking so and so’s—we could name a few—who benefit? U.S. Pledge to Renew Cuba Ties Gets Hopeful Reaction From 'Buena Vista Social Club' Star 2014-12-17T05:00:00Z Roger’s venal wife, Arabella, spews a litany of complaints that evoke the Private Eye column “Polly Filler,” in which a fatuous twit moans about her useless husband and her lazy au pairs. ‘Capital,’ a Novel by John Lanchester 2012-07-13T18:01:49Z And his answer is: Everyone is responsible — the intelligentsia, the masters of media, the venal oligarchs and scheming politicians and, above all, a nation whose passion for ideas is both its glory and its vulnerability. Review: ‘The Invention of Russia’ Examines the Post-Soviet Path 2016-07-13T04:00:00Z Foreigners — played by dwarfs wearing curly yellow-wool wigs — were depicted as venal and stupid barbarians who could not even speak their own languages. China Remembers a Vast Crime 2010-10-21T12:26:00Z We watched as the Kardashians became a baffling but irrefutable empire and spawned a new genre of television in which the venal was celebrated, the petty encouraged. Bruce Jenner's story is his alone to tell, so why all the wild talk? 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z The scowl, the voice of gloomy fatalism, is much bigger in the new Alien episodes: films about the rise of robots in which the humans are usually messy, fleshy, venal and feeble. Alien: Covenant – why Ridley Scott's facehuggers and chestbursters will never die 2017-05-10T04:00:00Z And thus does the demonization of fashion play on; its role as shorthand for all that is morally corrupt and venal in the world continues. In ‘Cruella,’ Fashion Is Toxic 2021-05-27T04:00:00Z The poor and needy run the gamut from chirpy to venal. Rewind TV: Call the Midwife; Louie; Howard Goodall's Story of Music – review 2013-01-26T22:45:01Z But what really stands out is Wolfe’s contempt for the characters: on this campus, the students are slutty, the parents are venal and the professors are helplessly flabby betas. Perspective | How Tom Wolfe’s ‘I Am Charlotte Simmons’ sounded the death knell for New Journalism 2019-05-02T04:00:00Z Look: there again are the scarred lunar landscapes, the poisoned rivers, the displaced First Nation activists, the venal politicians who should regulate this industry and yet quite clearly don't. Film review: H2Oil 2010-06-10T21:38:00Z When I stood in roughly the same spot as these two figures, I was thinking about some of the distinctly venal purposes to which we put our supposedly disinterested love of natural beauty. Perspective | Rekindling the wonder of Natural Bridge, once a testament to American grandeur 2021-06-16T04:00:00Z Her venal manager, a terrific villain with a gold vampiric grill, pushes her to play a hood role in her rapping that white record execs eat up like sugar. In Angie Thomas’s ‘On the Come Up,’ a Young Rapper Finds Her Way 2019-02-05T05:00:00Z But his inclination to demonstrate a patriotic conscience is at odds with the more venal concerns of his headkicking MD, Kornerstrup. The Killing, season three – TV review 2013-07-24T22:55:13Z Someday a play may come along to challenge the prevailing view that anyone who handles other people's money for a living is a venal, soulless opportunist. A one-note aria of the financial world in '63 Trillion' 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z Under the heavy hand of director Alister Grierson, the dynamics and technique of survival are reduced to a lot of carping between the no-nonsense, good-guy Aussies and the venal, treacherous Americans. Sanctum Review: A Soggy, James Cameron-less misadventure 2011-02-03T17:35:00Z Mr. Kurosawa expertly modulates an uncanny flow of energies between shame and grief, between venal urges and high-minded moral demands. Kurosawa’s ‘Penance,’ About the Legacy of a Girl’s Murder 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z Ms. Martin, who had lived briefly among them, framed her observations as fieldwork, portraying herself a hapless outsider determined to document her neighbors’ venal, rapaciously competitive ways. Wednesday Martin Dares to Call Her New Book ‘Untrue’ 2018-09-15T04:00:00Z What does get through the noise to sway the public may then be lost in an increasingly politicized judiciary — Brett M. Kavanaugh, anyone? — and the reactions of a venal Senate majority leader and his minions. Perspective | Journalists can’t repeat their Watergate-hero act. The reasons should make us grieve. 2019-06-07T04:00:00Z It's just the venal rich who force him to commit crimes as he bids to right wrongs. Watch this 2010-07-28T07:00:00Z The show will not permit us simply to embrace a Romantic, pastoral landscape full of peaceful creatures far more natural than venal humanity. Exhibition Review: ?In the Company of Animals? Opens at the Morgan Library 2012-03-02T21:47:25Z “I don’t teach,” Leslie says, looking directly at Ali with a kind of mesmerizing venal gaze. ‘Transparent’ Season 2, Episodes 4 and 5: Raffles and Mee-Maw 2015-12-15T05:00:00Z Was this really the same man taken to task for stereotyping Chinese train companions as venal, and writing of Africans that "the best of them are bare-assed"? 2010-01-08T21:05:00Z But her desire to marry someone rich would have fulfilled the venal quotient without contradicting her character. Cameron Diaz in Bad Teacher: What's Her Motivation? 2011-06-24T09:00:00Z In any case, Shaw's real interest goes deeper: he is exposing the medical profession not only as a group of quarrelling quacks but a bunch of humans made venal by the system of private medicine. Richard III; The Doctor's Dilemma; The Fire Garden – reviews 2012-07-28T23:06:10Z I feel like there's a cynicism — you use the word venal — because there's a sort of very detached, almost nihilistic perspective that I feel has entered our culture. If we can't fix this "frightening" problem, then we have "no hope" of addressing the climate crisis 2023-09-29T04:00:00Z We have had partisan justices; we have had ideological justices; we have had justices who favored, for venal reasons, one interest over another. Clarence Thomas should not get away with it | Jamelle Bouie 2023-09-27T04:00:00Z The vote was on this question: Will the ex-president ever be indicted for one of his various venal acts? Trump faces more than sand traps | Horsey cartoon 2023-08-11T04:00:00Z “They are the doughty, brave North Korean; the venal and cowardly South Korean, the evil American; and the even more evil Japanese.” Seventy years on, North Korea tells its own story of a war and its aftermath 2023-07-26T04:00:00Z Those on whose behalf we are supposedly fighting are as venal as those we are fighting against. They lied about Afghanistan. They lied about Iraq. Now they're lying about Ukraine 2023-07-08T04:00:00Z “I had been really raised and was deeply sympathetic to a view that real estate development is always wrong, always speculative, always venal,” Daniel told me. Plans to Build in Berkeley Put Values to the Test 2023-06-06T04:00:00Z Greedy corporations have adulterated public wellness, its healthcare providers functioning more like venal debt collectors than caregivers. This spring's strongest critique of Big Pharma may be a ripping L.A. crime novel 2023-04-20T04:00:00Z The siblings "seem extra venal and arrogant this series, if every bit as funny as ever", she wrote. Succession: Critics praise 'brutal' fourth and final season 2023-03-22T04:00:00Z But the true global extent of the crisis has been obscured by verdant forest canopies, venal companies, and indifferent governments. Illegal mining has muddied tropical rivers worldwide 2023-01-11T05:00:00Z Whether their objectives are venal or virtuous, such leaders are assumed to be driven by the logic of self-interest and self-preservation. Putin’s dangerous mindset 2022-10-07T04:00:00Z But Cox triumphs as the wily magnate scrabbling to control his empire and out-maneuver his equally venal brood. AP Emmy pundits call a win for ‘Succession,’ split on comedy 2022-08-31T04:00:00Z The scarier version of that misguided view is venal landgrabber Martins, who seems to relish sawing and burning his way toward some warped version of “progress.” Review: Indigenous people turn to technology to save their Amazon home in 'The Territory' 2022-08-18T04:00:00Z The statement from his attorney, Steve Zissou, that no American imprisoned by Russian President Vladimir Putin will be freed without this venal death merchant’s return to the terrorist nation of Russia is undoubtedly true. Opinion | Russia is asking too much 2022-08-03T04:00:00Z “A world in which journalists must toe the line and not ask why she tolerates venal corruption.” Jessie Duarte, senior aide to Nelson Mandela, dies at 68 2022-07-18T04:00:00Z Tucker Carlson sometimes seems to be an unrepentant bigot — and at other times merely a venal, vile huckster who knows better but doesn't care. Biden calls out "domestic terrorism": That's important, but is it enough to shift the narrative? 2022-05-19T04:00:00Z Their assembly had been all too ready to establish local courts, stocking them with venal officials who lined their pockets by collecting local taxes with oppressive severity and embezzling the proceeds. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z The “Old Horse” is overthrown; his vice president, just as venal and brutal, is also swept away. How a Zimbabwean Californian came to write a modern, African 'Animal Farm' 2022-03-07T05:00:00Z Sandu's control of the executive and the parliament offer Moldova its best-ever chance to take the state out of the hands of venal elites, officials in Brussels and Chisinau say. EXCLUSIVE Moldovan president to Russia: joining the EU is our choice 2021-12-14T05:00:00Z “I will smash every bone in your worthless, venal, criminal elf skull,” reads a more recent email to Dr. Fauci dated July 21, according to court documents. DOJ charges man over threatening emails sent to Fauci, NIH director Collins 2021-07-28T04:00:00Z Exhibit one: His loud-mouthed firing of Attorney General Jeff Sessions, who managed to come across as both venal and hapless during his Justice Department tenure. Opinion | Trump killed the old GOP — and he’s getting away with the murder 2021-05-14T04:00:00Z “As virtue is the basis of republics, their existence depends upon it, and the moment that the people in general lose their virtue, and become venal and corrupt, they cease to be free.” Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z Rulers and military leaders, driven by venal self-interest, are often buffoonish characters in a grand comic operetta. Unraveling of the American empire: A series of military debacles point toward a tragic end 2021-04-20T04:00:00Z Are his utterly transparent motives any less venal? Mitch McConnell is no more credible than Donald Trump — but the press sucks up to him 2020-12-20T05:00:00Z In various articles, the sites said: “Barr’s masquerade as someone opposed to the criminality of the Deep State” was “a venal lie,” and claimed, without evidence, that the “DOJ is reluctant to investigate election fraud.” No, Barr was not part of a secret plot against President Trump. 2020-12-02T05:00:00Z “It’s an amazing mix of venal, violent corruption, and complete and utter incompetence. The level of insanity, and craziness and venality is just unmatched.” Biden’s chief of staff pick called ‘park ranger’ for swamp 2020-11-29T05:00:00Z Nowhere was that more true than with America's expeditionary version of militarism, its forever wars of this century, and the venal system that continues to feed it. What President Biden won’t touch 2020-11-28T05:00:00Z Many in Peru see the legislators as venal, corrupt — and responsible for adding political turmoil to the economic and public health crises the country was already facing. Peru Chooses 3rd President in a Week Amid Street Protests 2020-11-16T05:00:00Z "In the midst of the pandemic, the Republicans want to strike down a law that 23 million Americans rely on," he said, calling the hearing a "shameless, self-serving, venal reversal." Amy Klobuchar calls Barrett hearing a “sham” as Lindsey Graham defends against “hypocrisy” charges 2020-10-12T04:00:00Z “If the choice is between two venal and corrupt powers, neither of which cares for international laws or norms, that’s not much of a choice.” Trump promised to bring China to heel. He didn’t and the result is a pitched conflict between the world’s two major powers. 2020-10-11T04:00:00Z It's especially bad because the allegations involve fleecing Trump's supporters for venal reasons, which may hit close to home for those feeling let down by his presidency heading into the November election. Steve Bannon's downfall looks really bad for Bill Barr and Donald Trump Jr. 2020-08-28T04:00:00Z That means treating Trump as someone who is endlessly fascinating, potentially teachable, and enormously consequential — rather than describing him as a predictably venal, incoherent and unchanging narcissist. Save lives — or obsess about Trump's tone? Political reporters just can't get it right 2020-07-23T04:00:00Z Ethics investigations were a means to portray legislative dealmaking as a venal, vaguely criminal act. Review | How Newt Gingrich made nastiness a virtue 2020-07-16T04:00:00Z I’ve been gasping as I read an advance copy of Bolton’s book, particularly his chapter on relations with China, because China policy perfectly captures Trump’s soaring hypocrisy wrapped in venal incompetence. Opinion | China’s Man in Washington, Named Trump 2020-06-20T04:00:00Z A vain, venal, vacuum-packed embodiment of political ego, Meyer lives in a world of bunglers, schemers and jaded professionals whose collective main goal is political survival at all costs. Trump fatigue? 17 political TV shows to watch if you're totally over politics 2020-05-19T04:00:00Z After decades in which US politicians have chided Ukraine for its venal politics, it’s ironic that an American president should try to corrupt his Ukrainian counterpart. Volodymyr Zelenskiy: ‘My White House invitation? I was told it’s being prepared’ 2020-03-07T05:00:00Z But a venal officer could legally deny an applicant a green card because, among other things, the applicant committed the sin of applying for a green card. Opinion | The Trump administration’s green card Catch-22 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z Critics, many of whom also denounced the initial ban, saw something far more venal at play. New U.S. Travel Ban Shuts Door on Africa’s Biggest Economy, Nigeria 2020-02-02T05:00:00Z The formation of the Cabinet had been held up as a result of the venal horse-trading between Lebanon’s constantly squabbling sects over control of ministries. Tear gas and clashes greet Lebanon's new government 2020-01-22T05:00:00Z The officers in command were venal idiots indifferent to the fate of the men they sent into combat. Opinion | The Book That Changed My Life 2020-01-18T05:00:00Z That process, in 1868, saw the venal and unpopular 17th president avoid removal from office by one vote in a Senate trial. Ivanka Trump defends father with fake impeachment quote 2019-11-23T05:00:00Z It can’t be that everything you do is malicious, venal or just downright goofy, can it? Opinion | Wait, President Trump! Before you unsubscribe! 2019-10-24T04:00:00Z Here’s how I see it: An antiquated, venal institution clinging desperately to its waning power. California law allowing college athletes to profit should be accepted, then possibly modified, by NCAA 2019-10-06T04:00:00Z The notion of a “good ruler” in Beijing — a leader whose noble intentions are thwarted only by venal local bureaucrats — runs deep. Xi Extols China’s ‘Red’ Heritage in a Land Haunted by Famine Under Mao 2019-09-30T04:00:00Z But embedded in the work is a critique of what Cooper calls the “conniving, disruptive, venal, and murderous” impulses of colonization, the slaughter that followed in the explorers’ wake, or that they themselves perpetrated. A Photographer at the Ends of the Earth 2019-09-30T04:00:00Z But its depiction of a racially divided, corrupt and often venal world rings just as true today. Review: 'Godfather of Harlem' features great acting, unusual depth — and a killer soundtrack 2019-09-28T04:00:00Z Most extremely, it is viewed as evidence of venal influences encroaching on the presumably purer academic realm, and condemned as one further sign of the decline of the academy and contemporary intellectuals therein. Why Jeffrey Epstein surrounded himself with scientists 2019-08-19T04:00:00Z In doing so, the candidates have been eager to be seen as speaking plain truth to what they frame as venal power on issues of race, character and everything else. No One Attacked Trump More in 2016 Than His Fellow Republicans. The Lesson: It Didn’t Work. 2019-08-13T04:00:00Z More than anything, Maclean is superb at capturing the contradictions of the country under the generals, a place where beauty, gentleness and a deep religious faith coexisted with venal brutality. Top 10 books about Burma 2019-07-10T04:00:00Z Embedded in Cooper’s work is a critique of what he calls the “conniving, disruptive, venal, and murderous” impulses of colonization, the slaughter that followed in the explorers’ wake, or that they themselves perpetrated. A Photographer at the Ends of the Earth 2019-09-30T04:00:00Z But, capitalism being capitalism, there are likely to be more venal motivations at work. If Facebook or Google create their own currency, they can control our lives | John Harris 2019-06-24T04:00:00Z Trump will continue to be a venal narcissist who obstructs legitimate oversight into his mismanagement of government. Is the Trump-Russia political drama over? Not at all: Bill Barr's ending fell flat 2019-03-27T04:00:00Z Or does he sit atop a state that is, in fact, shockingly ramshackle, a system driven more by the capricious and often venal calculations of competing bureaucracies and interest groups than by Kremlin diktats? How Powerful Is Vladimir Putin Really? 2019-03-23T04:00:00Z This kind of coverage portrays political grandstanding, a venal sin, as no better or no different from actively covering up criminal activity. Donald Trump's CPAC speech was completely unhinged. Why didn't media cover it that way? 2019-03-04T05:00:00Z He died diminished, his reputation crippled by the compromises of a venal Soviet man — the writer who deserved the Stalin Prize but never the Nobel. Review | Was this Soviet author a plagiarist or a stifled genius? 2019-01-31T05:00:00Z In “American Express”, a pair of venal New York lawyers make a shabby killing and embark with their riches on a playboy jaunt through Italy, where one of them takes up with a schoolgirl. Bite-sized: 50 great short stories, chosen by Hilary Mantel, George Saunders and more 2019-02-02T05:00:00Z “Want to know why an industry that views itself as lifesaving and heroic is viewed by much of the public as price gouging and venal?” Daily briefing: Why more people die when the economy prospers 2019-01-22T05:00:00Z Agnew initially took the legal position that vice presidents cannot be indicted, and began giving speeches attacking the prosecution as corrupt and venal. Our national anxiety will be what drives Trump from office 2019-01-05T05:00:00Z The novel loses a little of its edge in its later stretches, perhaps because even Lane can’t remain as venal and duplicitous as he’d like to be in his dealings with Nina and Inez. In ‘Lake City,’ a ne’er-do-well narrator prowls Seattle’s back streets 2019-01-04T05:00:00Z Maybe Andrew Jackson was as impetuous, maybe Richard M. Nixon as venal. Opinion | Trump is incompetent, impulsive and amoral. Heaven help us all. 2018-12-24T05:00:00Z A blistering takedown of a venal healthcare system that prizes corporate profit over saving lives, Jonathan Marshall Thompson’s film, featuring interviews with insiders, experts and crusading politicians like U.S. Review: Documentary 'Drug$' takes aim at Big Pharma 2018-12-12T05:00:00Z Usually, it’s something venal, sometimes it's for women, but almost all the time it’s money. Attorney and author Seth Abramson: Donald Trump sets “new paradigm for treachery.” Part 1 of 2 2018-12-06T05:00:00Z “Ordinary Zimbabweans are paying for the excesses of a venal predatory elite not being held to account,” said Piers Pigou of the International Crisis Group. One year after Mugabe’s historic ouster, Zimbabwe looks much the same 2018-11-21T05:00:00Z And for those Brazilians who saw the political establishment they inherited from the Workers’ Party as venal, Mr. Bolsonaro was an enthralling candidate. Jair Bolsonaro, Far-Right Populist, Elected President of Brazil 2018-10-28T04:00:00Z Since then, the idealistic young republic has swollen into a corrupt, venal empire, and it is currently lurching towards autocracy while splitting apart in a reactivated civil war. Shakespeare in the age of Brexit and Trump: the play’s still the thing 2018-09-29T04:00:00Z He is merely a noxious, venal, and ineffectual blowhard, who has assembled a team of associates who are themselves, with few exceptions, noxious, venal, or ineffectual. After Trump: The Donald in the rearview mirror 2018-09-17T04:00:00Z At the center is the man himself, congenitally insecure, narcissistic, thin-skinned, compulsive, venal and dishonest. 'I'm a popularist': Trump struggles with Bannon's coaching in Woodward book 2018-09-05T04:00:00Z Cooper is right; this is still a bald, partisan power play that would weaken state government, leaving it more venal and more vulnerable to corruption. North Carolina editorial roundup 2018-09-05T04:00:00Z Other presidents have been venal, bigoted, corrupt, divisive, ignorant or unstable, but never all of these things at the same time, in such lavish measure. Opinion | Want to honor McCain, GOP? Grow a spine. 2018-08-27T04:00:00Z She is a vastly imperfect person by any standard, at times brave and at times venal, obviously admirable and obviously self-interested. Opinion | Stormy Daniels, Feminist Hero 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z “Why do Madonna’s hands look older than her face?” inquired the Daily Mail in 2006 in a particularly venal piece that has been redrafted pretty much every year since. All hail Madonna, a 60-year-old woman who won’t be quiet | Fiona Sturges 2018-08-15T04:00:00Z He held combative press conferences outlining Russian corporate malpractice and passed along to journalists dossiers that described the way venal oligarchs engaged in asset stripping, wasteful spending, and share dilutions. How Bill Browder Became Russia’s Most Wanted Man 2018-08-13T04:00:00Z Prosecutors painted a picture of venal behavior driven by greed and malice. Manafort on trial: A scorched-earth prosecutor and not a mention of Trump 2018-07-31T04:00:00Z Corruption enriches the venal, but hurts everyone else. Fighting corruption 2004-04-29T04:00:00Z Justice Minister Andrew Little followed by saying Australia's deportation of New Zealanders had a "venal, political strain" to it. Is Australia and NZ 'mateship' in trouble? 2018-07-27T04:00:00Z “But the whole Seth Rich thing is incredibly venal.” Charges undermine Assange denials about hacked email origins 2018-07-14T04:00:00Z Yes, Putin himself is a venal and corrupt autocrat with an atrocious human rights record. Donald Trump, Brexit and the Russians: A dangerous turning point in “World War IV” 2018-07-14T04:00:00Z “Can you stop people from doing stupid things? No. Can you stop people from doing venal things? No,” Cuomo said. Cynthia Nixon: Gov. Cuomo must initiate corruption probe 2018-07-13T04:00:00Z It has announced a political revolution aimed at wiping out the corrosive influence of the venal communist collaborators it accuses of seizing power when Poland regained independence in 1989. Poles apart: the bitter conflict over a nation’s communist history 2018-07-13T04:00:00Z There’s no doubt that blamelessness attracts us, in this most venal of times. Opinion | Just thinking of the kids isn’t enough 2018-07-10T04:00:00Z State and city governments are just as venal as ever. The staggering rise of India’s super-rich 2018-07-10T04:00:00Z Similarly, the antics of administration members like EPA head Scott Pruitt and son-in-law Jared Kushner are all part of the same venal approach to governing that shamed Americans in the 1870s or 1920s. Donald Trump is more like the founding fathers than Americans want to admit 2018-07-04T04:00:00Z “People are going to do bad, stupid, venal things.” Cynthia Nixon: Gov. Cuomo must initiate corruption probe 2018-07-13T04:00:00Z I was shocked by the craven, venal thoughts oozing out of my brain, too. Farewell, My Lovely Inheritance 2018-04-25T04:00:00Z Mr. Comey approached Stellar Wind, like many other issues, by assuming not honest differences but venal motives on the part of those with whom he disagreed. Comey’s Loyalty Isn’t to the Truth 2018-04-25T04:00:00Z People with venal agendas occasionally do the right thing. How Lisa Murkowski Mastered Trump’s Washington 2018-04-05T04:00:00Z She had also been called "Judas", "a venal piece of detritus", a "Zionazi" and an "absolute parasite." Labour 'not connected' to abusive posts 2018-03-31T04:00:00Z "We have once before turned Russians into such venal enemies that we fought a long, hard, very painful war with, creating incredible collateral damage." 'The Americans' prepares to take a final bow on FX 2018-03-21T04:00:00Z The fear of being shaken down by venal bureaucrats and taxmen remains a powerful reason to stay below the radar. Narendra Modi wants to boost formalisation. How is he faring? 2018-03-01T05:00:00Z More recently, Joris Luyendijk, in his 2015 book about the world of banking, has shown how destructive an extended period of venal self-interest has proved to be for those who work there. Is the British establishment finally finished? 2018-02-27T05:00:00Z The Spanish colonizers, by contrast, perpetrated a massacre culture, genocidal and meaningless, advancing only the venal interests of the invaders. Perspective | This would be the perfect time for the art world to address gun violence 2018-02-15T05:00:00Z Activists condemned what they called Gui’s “venal” forced confession with Sweden also dismissing the claims. Chinese media claims bookseller Gui Minhai offered national secrets to Sweden 2018-02-10T05:00:00Z Instead, he argued, they are rebelling against leaders perceived to be autocratic, venal and incompetent. A referendum in Ecuador is another defeat for South America’s left-wing populists 2018-02-05T05:00:00Z In “It’s Even Worse Than You Think,” journalist David Cay Johnston diagnoses the Trump administration as a “kakistocracy,” or government by the least qualified and most venal among us. Review | American democracy is on a break. Welcome to ‘Trumpocracy.’ 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z But venal self-interest means most of them don’t care. Is the British establishment finally finished? 2018-02-27T05:00:00Z It is time to shine a spotlight on venal leaders abroad rather than the poorly phrased but true comment of Mr. Trump. Opinion | We’re stuck on Trump’s ‘hole’ comments 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z However, psychiatric reports ordered by the investigating judge before the trial, suggested Dagorn was selfish, venal, unscrupulous and had a “calculating mind”. France's 'black widow' on trial for killing two old men for their money 2018-01-15T05:00:00Z A better way of describing Iran’s dictatorship is as a kleptotheocracy, driven by impulses that are by turns doctrinal and venal. Finding the way forward with the kleptotheocracy that is Iran 2018-01-08T05:00:00Z All politicians are venal and corrupt, so supporting one over the other is pointless. The scourge of naive cynicism 2017-12-29T05:00:00Z Time they were seen as the conniving venal lackeys of the most vicious of the rich. Opinion | Tasks for Congress: Ignore President, Keep Government Open … 2017-12-02T05:00:00Z Looking forward to Mueller indicting this venal, congenital liar and corrupt serial abuser of women. Trump Shares Inflammatory Anti-Muslim Videos, and Britain’s Leader Condemns Them 2017-11-29T05:00:00Z Patricia Dagorn was described in police reports as a “venal and unscrupulous” woman who preyed on the affections of her ageing and wealthy lovers. France's 'black widow' on trial for killing two old men for their money 2018-01-15T05:00:00Z For many outside the Church it seems Evangelicals define themselves by the Church's inability or unwillingness to break with a vulgar, venal Trump and his policies. Opinion | Is There an Evangelical Crisis? 2017-11-25T05:00:00Z But hitting on teens and preteens is especially venal in relation to anything Bill was accused of. ‘What About Bill?’ Sexual Misconduct Debate Revives Questions About Clinton 2017-11-15T05:00:00Z Trump reduces everything to his venal, personal level. ‘Lock Her Up’ Becomes More Than a Slogan 2017-11-14T05:00:00Z This isn't a political so much as a venal problem. What Red States Are Passing Up as Blue States Get Billions 2017-11-13T05:00:00Z Selfish, venal, ignoble, vengeful as they may be, we've been there too. Liaisons, yes. Dangerous, not so much: Antaeus revives Christopher Hampton's tale of sexual conquest – LA Times 2017-11-06T05:00:00Z “Denying science while attacking scientists as politically motivated and venal is standard operating procedure on the American right,” he explains. Paul Krugman: The Republican Party may end up destroying human civilization 2017-09-12T04:00:00Z True, there weren’t many other influential people specifically rejecting warnings about Irma, but denying science while attacking scientists as politically motivated and venal is standard operating procedure on the American right. Conspiracies, corruption and climate 2017-09-11T04:00:00Z But it can seem as if Trump’s behavior is so venal, so beyond pale and precedent, that it must reflect some kind of plan. In Our Cynical Age, No One Fails Anymore — Everybody ‘Pivots’ 2017-08-29T04:00:00Z What happened to Egypt was the development of a powerful set of ideas related to populism, nationalism and religious fundamentalism that venal leaders and political entrepreneurs stoked for their own parochial interests. The tragic tale of Egypt's decline: Is it also the story of America's future? 2017-08-27T04:00:00Z Defiance of an elected president, no matter how venal that president, or how justified that defiance, would certainly spark a constitutional crisis. Don't pin your hopes on military generals saving the world from Trump | Joe McLean 2017-08-21T04:00:00Z It’s a portal to the crafty, stagy, venal sum of us. You can’t eclipse America’s capitalist spirit 2017-08-17T04:00:00Z We learn something of the grubby economy of life behind bars, as well as the venal motives driving the warders, who maintain order by empowering their most thuggish charges. Alan Clarke's 1979 film 'Scum' remains a hard-hitting exposé of British youth prisons 2017-07-06T04:00:00Z Still, the Anthropocene isn’t going away just because a venal troll in a baggy suit is sitting in the White House. 'A reckoning for our species': the philosopher prophet of the Anthropocene 2017-06-15T04:00:00Z They are venal and violent, steal drug money, break bones and snuff out lives. Don Winslow: 'Our expectations of the police are contradictory and impossible' 2017-06-08T04:00:00Z Dishonest and venal senators and congressmen had long been protected by the immunity of office. Has Brazil’s Operation Car Wash exposed the biggest corruption scandal ever? 2017-06-01T04:00:00Z A sense of desperation, mostly venal but sometimes violent, seems to hover in the very air these men and women breathe. A father doesn't always know best in the gripping Romanian drama 'Graduation' 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z Although they come from varying walks of life and have attained varying degrees of education, none of these participants was stupid, venal or evil. Stephen King on Donald Trump: ‘How do such men rise? First as a joke’ 2017-04-01T04:00:00Z “And this is a particularly venal example, but if you look at it day on day, there are plenty of similar examples.” Daily Mail Compares 2 U.K. Leaders — Their Legs, Not Their Ideas 2017-03-28T04:00:00Z According to writer-director Ted Braun’s fascinating documentary “Betting on Zero,” there’s been a venal pyramid scheme masquerading in plain sight as a can’t-miss business opportunity. Doc 'Betting on Zero' chronicles a big short on Herbalife 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z The range of reactionaries who might welcome his elimination include a wide array of landowner-politicians, venal politicians and ministers, corrupt bureaucrats and avaricious subcontractors. The mysterious murder of an NGO worker in Pakistan 2017-03-03T05:00:00Z Shred in Hillary Clinton, victim of misogyny and her husband’s scandals, who also represents everything cowardly, venal and bland about the old order. Here is your proto-fascism, America. I hope you like the taste | Molly Crabapple 2017-01-20T05:00:00Z The Republican Congressional plan to "Repeal and Pretend" is mind-bogglingly venal and speaks to how they really feel about the American population. The G.O.P.’s Health Care Death Spiral 2017-01-17T05:00:00Z But this venal GOP is adding injury to insult by racing to set it up as the first thing on the president elect's desk. House Clears Path for Repeal of Health Law 2017-01-13T05:00:00Z At the same time, we need to delegate more decision-making power to citizens – rather than the easily corruptible experts and venal corporations. Democracy is in crisis, but blaming fake news is not the answer | Evgeny Morozov 2017-01-07T05:00:00Z “He just is not as venal as other defendants.” Feds had a win streak in L.A. jails scandal. Then they took on the former boss 2016-12-24T05:00:00Z The laws anointing the men with these titles typically also provide them and their families with immunity from prosecution, and indeed, behind the personality cults and nationalism is something more basic and venal. 'Democracy was hijacked. It got a bad name': the death of the post-Soviet dream 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z “I think jurors are open to hearing that kind of argument, especially from someone like Baca, who served the community for so long and doesn’t seem particularly venal.” From celebrated lawman to disgraced defendant: Lee Baca faces jury in L.A. corruption trial 2016-12-06T05:00:00Z This is "American Exceptionalism" at its most venal, cruel and vicious. First Comes the Emergency. Then Comes the Surprise Out-of-Network Bill. 2016-11-16T05:00:00Z “People will commit venal and greedy acts,” he said. Cuomo, Stung by a Scandal, Offers Ethics Reforms 2016-11-16T05:00:00Z It’s fashionable to dismiss all politicians as equally disappointing, unprincipled or simply venal. Who pretends to support kids with HIV but gives nothing? Donald Trump | Richard Wolffe 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z The only thing more corrupt and venal than sports is politics. We’re Here! RB Leipzig’s Rise to Bundesliga Isn’t Welcomed by All 2016-08-26T04:00:00Z The other day a conservative intellectual declared to her fellow writers and thinkers: “I’m for the venal idiot who won’t mechanize government against all I hold dear.” America’s Decadent Leadership Class 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z Their somewhat venal behavior may be perfectly legal. Foundation Ties Bedevil Hillary Clinton’s Presidential Campaign 2016-08-20T04:00:00Z “This hasn’t happened before. It’s not that he’s venal or has stolen money or abused his office.” Obama calls impeachment effort of John Koskinen, IRS commissioner, ‘crazy’ 2016-09-13T04:00:00Z Their corruption, if proved, is venal and personal. The impeachment country 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z Not everyone in public life is a venal, corrupt and greedy as the folks around the Clinton Foundation which – it has to be said – has done some good in the world. Selling the Secretary 2016-08-24T04:00:00Z “I just think this was a venal thing by someone who’s not venal. I mean, maybe I’ll get over it, maybe I won’t.” Anthony Weiner Says His Wife Never Agreed to That Documentary 2016-08-19T04:00:00Z As a result, even during Mubarak’s era, many Egyptians regarded the military as somehow apart from the venal dictatorship it upheld. Fractured Lands: How the Arab World Came Apart 2016-08-10T04:00:00Z He fills the hole where his heart should be with venal ambition, only to find that he is repeatedly disappointed. The World According to ‘BoJack Horseman’ 2016-07-22T04:00:00Z There’s an aggressive, uncompromising stubbornness to the way he keeps making movies about weary older men pursuing venal, shallow, but willing younger women. Café Society is the latest fancified peek deep into Woody Allen’s id 2016-07-20T04:00:00Z And a judge embracing partisanship and abandoning judiciousness reinforces another cynical Trump view: that the system is “rigged” and all our leaders are dumb or venal. Why Justice Ginsburg’s Trump Derangement Syndrome is a bad sign 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z There is a fundamental lack of trust between the public and those in positions of authority, who are often perceived as venal and self-serving. Police to Guard Chinese Hospitals to Stop Attacks on Doctors 2016-07-12T04:00:00Z Many Bernie Sanders supporters believe he is someone who can break this cycle of venal self-serving politics with his bold proposals. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: ‘Game of Thrones’ Is Our Election 2016-07-01T04:00:00Z The most venal thing about what Trump said actually goes beyond racism. Trump bigotry has shameless defenders, from GOP pols to CNN shills 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z There's a venal appeal in any book adaptation — the lure of a built-in audience, the long-term franchise and merchandising potential of the next Harry Potter. Blood Meridian is deemed ‘unfilmable’, but does that really mean anything? 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z Presenting the facts causes millennial voters to see Mrs. Clinton as corrupt, venal, vicious toward others, and willing to lie her way through a scandal. An Ugly General Election Takes Shape 2016-03-30T04:00:00Z Enraged by corruption, a former soldier turned masked vigilante is hunting down venal politicians, grasping business executives and media lackeys. Amid real-life political scandal, comic strip offers Brazilians even darker fantasy 2016-03-27T04:00:00Z Around this time of year, Leonardo Linares likes to get hold of a contentious politician or venal public official, stuff him full of explosives and set him alight. Mexicans burn Donald Trump effigy to celebrate Easter 2016-03-25T04:00:00Z “Now give me several hundred million dollars in cash that I can channel back into my foundation so that no one ever finds out how rich and venal I really am.” Broken Vows: Tony Blair, The Tragedy of Power by Tom Bower – digested read 2016-03-13T05:00:00Z They differed only in the analysis of whether the dealmakers were venal or merely stupid. Voters skeptical on free trade drive Sanders, Trump victories in Michigan 2016-03-09T05:00:00Z When a complex project like democracy is limited to two airbrushed party bureaucrats, venal strategies of coercion are inevitable. Vote for Hillary, be a sucker: It’s OK to reject the choice of a tyrannical liberal or a right-wing tyrant 2016-03-06T05:00:00Z Temptation has too often been followed by weakness and venal self-interest. Fifa presidential election: 'Why 'F' is for football and not Fifa' 2016-02-26T05:00:00Z I don't think that is quite fair - when people say that all businesses are venal or that all politicians are corrupt, I always wonder whether they think that their own motives are somehow pure. MWC 2016: Is Facebook about more than 'making money'? - BBC News 2016-02-23T05:00:00Z Private business is hemmed in by a venal bureaucracy, corruption and the military’s own sprawling interests. Five years after a revolution, Egypt is far from ‘restoring democracy’ 2016-01-25T05:00:00Z The law firm has become a focus in the government’s efforts to discredit rights lawyers as venal subversives abusing courts to create personal gain and “social chaos.” China Arrests Rights Lawyer and Her Husband on Subversion Charges 2016-01-13T05:00:00Z Suspicions of venal motives abounded, but nobody could really be sure. The Sudden But Well-Deserved Fall of Rahm Emanuel 2015-12-31T05:00:00Z The script here is riddled with showy rhetorical flourishes and tedious running gags, one being how often Tarantino can work in the N-word, as both a facetious and "serious" example of casual, venal racism. 'Hateful Eight' amounts to hot air 2015-12-24T05:00:00Z The incident sparked an uprising that within weeks would topple Tunisia’s venal autocracy. The End of the Arab Spring Dream 2015-12-16T05:00:00Z Later in the series, Tsukuda battles venal doctors and crooked rivals in a bid to sell a precision part for a heart device. Corporate Drama Series Hits Close to Home in Japan 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z No one else could possibly fit into the main character - a blustery, charming and venal political mover and shaker - like Pacino. Review: Al Pacino rascally in Mamet’s flat ‘China Doll’ 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z He promised to overturn an old social and political order that they saw, correctly, as dominated by a venal and unresponsive ruling class. Narendra Modi: the divisive manipulator who charmed the world 2015-11-09T05:00:00Z The precious stones are then ghosted across the porous Sino-Burmese border with the help of venal officials. See the True Cost of Burmese Jade 2015-11-06T05:00:00Z O’Hara never specifies where his emotionally ragged, venal figures, with their Southern drawls—they’re like the Beverly Hillbillies on crack—are. Robert O’Hara’s Black-and-White Family Satire 2015-10-26T04:00:00Z "These people, it is the way they are, will serve anyone who defends their venal interests," Pugachev, 52, said of the clans around Putin. 'Czar Putin': as secure as he seems? 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z Teriberka is better known now as the location of the Oscar-nominated “Leviathan,” a bleak film that depicts one man’s struggle against a venal bureaucrat who wants to seize his beloved house on the bay. Melting Ice Isn’t Opening Arctic to Oil Bonanza 2015-09-07T04:00:00Z "The charities have used these tactics not because they are evil or venal," says Fielding, "but because they work." What happens to information you give to charities? - BBC News 2015-09-01T04:00:00Z “Not every mistake is a venal crime, and the actions are too often characterized as negatively as humanely possible,” Friedman said. A ‘largely toxic discourse’ in Washington is hindering watchdogs, retiring IG says 2015-07-15T04:00:00Z This exhausting, venal marathon requires enormous physical stamina and perhaps ethical desensitization to survive it. Camille Paglia: What a Woman President Should Be Like 2015-07-13T04:00:00Z Subscribers to Britain’s main Communist daily—around 10,000 of them—get a diet of stories on venal bosses, oppressed workers and juicy conspiracy theories. Rising in the east 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z The dark storm of allegations which led to Blatter's dramatic resignation on Tuesday are only the most recent of the venal affairs to dog sport at the highest level. 'One of sport's most dramatic falls' 2015-06-02T04:00:00Z But government policies matter too and not all officials are venal, corrupt or self-serving. Goodbye to smog, cold noodles and breakneck change: my seven years covering China 2015-06-01T04:00:00Z Specifically, at what point does being a pal override an elected official’s duty to represent the public interest — as opposed to the allegedly venal interests of a private citizen who isn’t even his constituent? Did Senator Menendez cross the line? 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z Looking back at those words — and at a Congress that remains as venal and broken as it ever was — one can’t help but wonder: Did he mean it? Broken, venal, dysfunctional: The GOP clown show, Hillary’s challenge, and our dangerously frozen democracy 2015-03-08T05:00:00Z It is the most venal, basic type of fraud involving purposeful misrepresentation of material facts to induce investors to part with their money. No Get-Out-of-Jail-Free Card for Bankers 2015-02-28T05:00:00Z People were also at risk of getting advice from venal investment advisers guiding them toward investments with high fees or high risk because those products provided the advisers with high, frequently undisclosed commissions. Obama Proposal Recognizes How Retirement Saving Has Changed 2015-02-24T05:00:00Z And particularly after World War II, the abuses of communism and the rise of McCarthyism made it impossible to question capitalism, no matter how venal or exploitative its manifestations might become. Why we give in to the giants of industry 2015-02-18T05:00:00Z As Delhi’s chief, he attacked venal police and bureaucrats, and gave the poor free water and cheap electricity. Mufflerman triumphs 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z The movie follows the travails of Nikolai, a small-town auto mechanic whose life unravels as he tries to block a venal local political boss from seizing his home. Russian Movie ‘Leviathan’ Gets Applause in Hollywood but Scorn at Home 2015-01-27T05:00:00Z Even in the venal culture of the Kremlin, ordering a nuclear meltdown to save your career seems a tad excessive. Fun With Conspiracy Theories: Was the Chernobyl Disaster a CYA Move to Hide Something Even Worse? After the fall of communism, unemployment skyrocketed, foreign capital staked out monopoly positions, and the politicians the people elected turned out to be venal. Power Hungary: How Viktor Orban Became Europe's New Strongman 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z Only the venal — or the feral — would reject fresh in favor of processed. Rosemarino d’Italia in Alexandria: The next iteration of Italian American cooking? 2014-12-23T05:00:00Z As for poor old MPs, well they are not as venal as sometimes portrayed. Parliament, MPs and anti-politics 2014-11-09T05:00:00Z “The spread of Ebola in West Africa is primarily a result of poverty and mismanagement that are characteristic of the incompetent, corrupt and often venal local governments.” HAMMER: Millions misspent on AIDS relief in Africa, audit finds 2014-10-30T04:00:00Z It’s the business of fashion that can be venal, exacting a terrible price on models, consumers and the designers themselves who have to send out a ridiculous number of collections a year. Are fashion and feminism compatible? 2014-10-04T04:00:00Z It put the opposition in a grasping and venal kind of light.” A Jab at Indonesia’s President-Elect as Parliament Curbs Local Voting 2014-09-26T04:00:00Z In both instances, these were not mean or venal people. Why Elder Care In America Isn't Working 2014-09-24T04:00:00Z It might be something venal like ad targeting or high-frequency training. 4 Useful Things To Learn In 10 Minutes To Better Your Programming Career 2014-09-23T04:00:00Z But there is something that ties all three wars together: the illusion that the woeful local armies we propped up under corrupt and venal regimes will protect us from the enemy at the gate. Does Kennedy’s Vietnam War Documentary Foreshadow Tragedies in Baghdad and Kabul? When I spoke with a handful, they used words like “metastasize” and “venal” to describe Success Academy’s proliferation. The Battle for New York Schools: Eva Moskowitz vs. Mayor Bill de Blasio 2014-09-03T04:00:00Z Unfortunately, this opens the door to graft, the exposing of which brings media into direct confrontation with venal officials. A Harsh Media Law Threatens East Timor's Budding Democracy 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z It is degrading to live in a venal polity, but the idea of a special national mission or destiny can be consoling. Because we’re worth it 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z These are UKIP’s people: older, whiter, more socially conservative than the average, and disillusioned by a political elite they consider venal and remote. The people’s army 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z If man may be venal and warlike, so, too, must be his animal servants. The morality of dolphin soldiers 2014-05-06T21:17:23Z Wartime France, he wrote, was “the most important and very venal cog in the wheel of Hitler’s Holocaust co-conspirators.” Leo Bretholz, 93, Dies; Escaped Train to Auschwitz 2014-03-30T00:25:15Z Simple: You’d probably look like a shallow, venal human nightmare that has unkind exchanges about how your friend is always late to everything. The Pistorious Trial and Why You Can’t Judge a Person By Their Texts 2014-03-26T14:40:37Z A third pitch—the Godfather scenario—is that the Justice Department suit is a venal form of revenge for the rating agency’s decision in 2011 to downgrade U.S. debt. Credit Ratings and Broken Knees: Did Geithner Threaten S&P's Chairman? 2014-01-22T21:13:49Z What’s so damaging to Christie about these revelations is that they expose him and his brain trust as breathtakingly venal and vindictive. Bridge Scandal Destroys Christie's 'Nice Jerk' Image 2014-01-08T18:44:48Z Historically, the news that “60 Minutes” was in the lobby or on the phone has struck fear in the hearts of both the stalwart and the venal. The Media Equation: When ‘60 Minutes’ Checks Its Journalistic Skepticism at the Door 2013-12-23T02:35:37Z What we learn from babies is that our current politicians are most likely not unusually venal or small-minded … and that wondering how we got into this mess might well be asking the wrong question. Politicians Really Are Big Babies 2013-11-13T16:44:42Z Wednesday's ruling will undermine the credibility the court gained in the eyes of Brazilians as the only institution committed to ending the impunity enjoyed by Brazil's ruling class, long seen as venal and self-interested. Brazil's top court OKs retrials in landmark corruption case 2013-09-18T23:13:27Z And in the UK, while - full disclosure here - it's the media who are seen as the most venal sector of public life, they're run a close second by political parties. Corruption getting worse, says poll 2013-07-09T05:00:16Z Now we learn that it was based in no small part on manipulative lies by venal bankers. High & Low Finance: In Ireland, Dire Echoes of a Bailout Gone Wrong 2013-07-04T20:09:51Z However, Chinese and Vietnamese timber barons decimate protected forests through illegal land grabs for rubber and sugar plantations, abetted by a venal class of regime cronies. Cambodia Election Campaign, Little Change 2013-06-28T05:05:24Z “I can’t decide if he was completely venal or completely clueless,” said Professor Vladeck, a lawyer who has argued First Amendment and civil rights cases before the Supreme Court. In Utah, a Local Hero Accused 2013-06-15T19:15:59Z Oh well, I suppose it's good to be reminded how venal is the moneyed game. We sang our song about Manchester City's Mancini. We love the man 2013-05-13T12:52:48Z The government paints him as the puppet of a rich and venal Venezuelan elite and its "imperialist" friends in Washington. Venezuela's Maduro says campaign sabotage suspects arrested 2013-04-05T19:47:34Z The three southern border provinces were traditionally a dumping ground for venal or inept officials. Insight: Little optimism for breakthrough in Thailand's forgotten jihad 2013-03-25T21:09:02Z They are accused of being venal, inept and distant. The Celebrity vs. the Former Military Ruler: Pakistan's Election Season Begins 2013-03-25T20:05:19Z As Tony Blair's valedictory "feral beast" speech put it, not only does people's behaviour have to be incompetent, their motives must be venal too in Fleet Street's books. Press regulation: who has won? 2013-03-18T12:06:24Z Fighting back against that impression, however, the government says Capriles is a well-funded puppet of both a venal local elite and greedy "imperialists" in the United States. Venezuela's Maduro accuses U.S. of "plot" to kill rival 2013-03-17T18:38:36Z That's the real lesson from the financial meltdown--numerous people, in banks and in the ratings agencies, were not only venal, many people simply did not do the job they were paid to do. Lessons From S&P's Massive Screw-up 2013-02-06T15:39:00Z That is the deeply pernicious reality of our present, so I fail to understand why, with "capitalism at its most venal" today, the "past wasn't any better". Letters: Demise of our high streets and nostalgia for a pre-digital world 2013-01-16T21:00:03Z Because while the present – MP3s, corporate tax evasion, capitalism at its most venal, the wanton destruction of the cherished high street – may be hideous, the past wasn't any better. HMV and the death of the British high street: why do we care? 2013-01-15T19:13:00Z One judge partly dissented, saying, “Evidence of a venal intent” did not rise to the standard for a finding of dishonesty. Ivan Fisher, Defender of the Notorious, and Now Himself 2013-01-05T15:52:45Z The venal innkeeper is woven throughout the story, showing up not only on the battlefield and at the barricades but also just before Valjean’s death. Top 10 Les Mizzes Better Than the New Les Miz 2012-12-30T05:05:23Z No matter how well-meaning the law and venal its objects, this is a sad day for speech. Leveson's distinction between web and print news 'will undermine regulation' 2012-11-29T16:48:15Z A quick look at the house listings for foreigners living in the capital reveals the premium that is put on having a liberal - or at least a venal - bewab. The doormen policing Egypt's morals 2012-10-27T23:24:38Z He hoped to see ordinary Englishmen and women like himself liberated from the shackles of the venal and violently enforced obscurantism of the Mediaeval Catholic Church. What Hilary Mantel's Thomas Cromwell Teaches About Power 2012-10-21T05:05:38Z “You will always find situations where people in power make mistakes, or abuse their power, or abuse their authority, or are corrupt or venal.” NY’s latest sex scandal dogged by sordid past 2012-09-27T13:02:00Z This pièce-à-clef imagined the Presidential primary faceoff between an Adlai Stevenson type, ethical but dithering, and a venal Richard Nixon surrogate. Remembering Gore Vidal, a Roaring Literary Lion 2012-08-01T22:05:28Z At least us grubby hacks sometimes bring down presidents or topple venal corporations in Hollywood cinema Bankers are rarely allowed such narrative development. Bankers on screen don't make great role models 2012-07-06T12:02:33Z It seems my bewab belonged in the venal, rather than the liberal, category. The doormen policing Egypt's morals 2012-10-27T23:24:38Z Surely a judge-led inquiry with power to require documents/testimony under oath would show how venal Labour was? Letters: Bank scandal needs a judicial inquiry 2012-07-05T19:59:02Z The restoration of integrity in banking will not happen without changes in the law to introduce serious criminal sanctions against venal traders and grossly negligent bosses. Banksters will keep on escaping justice until the politicians act 2012-06-30T20:00:05Z My guardian thee did I elect, My sacred temple to protect; That thou, and all thy venal tribe, Should spurn the goddess for a bribe! Moores Fables for the Female Sex 2012-04-24T02:00:20.600Z Henry’s successor, Philip I., was known as the most venal of men, and from him, by a similar transaction, Helinand purchased, with the money acquired from the revenues of Laon, the primatial see of Reims. A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume I 2012-04-17T02:00:16.473Z With sham science for his shield, venal literature and art For his touts and advertisers, he can bravely play his part. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 105, November 11, 1893 2012-04-12T02:00:28.173Z It is certainly not venal; it is hardly ever malign. Modern Leaders: Being a Series of Biographical Sketches 2012-04-01T02:00:10.050Z Not such as the chaste wife and house-keeping mother of Hebrew praise, but Laïs with her venal charms was the subject of Greek song and art. The Expositor's Bible: Ephesians 2012-03-20T02:00:11.133Z After paying his respects to the daily Parisian press, which he belabours as venal, cynical, and impure, our critic evokes a picture of the condition of literary men; not a reassuring one. Unicorns 2012-03-14T02:00:26.677Z Carlile, however, was no hypocrite, nor did he take this new course for venal ends. Life and Character of Richard Carlile 2012-03-14T02:00:25.327Z Yet we are not blind to the uses of severe criticism, and of just censure, especially in a time and place so degraded by venal and indiscriminate praise as the present. Life Without and Life Within or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and poems. 2012-03-05T03:00:13.070Z The victorious Volunteers had untied the Irish Ixion from a torture-wheel of centuries, and, encouraged by their first success, were preparing now to pass a stern judgment on a venal parliament. My Lords of Strogue, Vol. I (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union 2012-02-15T03:00:34.177Z These bully squireens, these venal, brow-beating grandees, must be shown, before more harm was done, that there must be a bound to their arrogance. My Lords of Strogue, Vol. II (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union 2012-02-15T03:00:26.817Z He was venal, but he feared no man’s face; he was a ready-money voter, but he could go out in all weathers. The Commercial Restraints of Ireland 2012-02-13T03:00:20.483Z Voltaire, who attacked the savagery of the law, the cruel decisions of venal courts, and rescued victims from the wheel and rack. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 4 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Lectures 2012-02-11T03:03:46.253Z The judges were nearly as cruel as venal. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 3 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Lectures 2012-02-11T03:03:43.960Z Jewellers and milliners, players and fiddlers, venal wits and venal beauties, followed in crowds. Highways and Byways in Cambridge and Ely 2012-02-03T03:00:22.657Z Were they to be protected from the growling rabble--these hereditary legislators, who had abused their trust--these amateur colonels who had disgraced their cloth--this venal degraded senate which was a byword among senates? My Lords of Strogue, Vol. II (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union 2012-02-15T03:00:26.817Z Ambition, in her sense, you have none; there is nothing venal in your nature. Checkmate 2012-01-03T03:00:10.887Z Lastly, it might be necessary to take in the venal but inevitable Bubb. Lord Chatham His Early Life and Connections 2012-01-02T03:00:18.893Z Some of his writings contained questionable morality, and others were of scurrilous and venal character. Curiosities of Impecuniosity 2011-12-31T03:00:16.190Z Justice is venal, and the police are brutal and inefficient. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 7 "Gyantse" to "Hallel" 2011-12-26T03:00:11.613Z When we think how much mischief has recently been done in the United States by illiterate and venal votes, we cannot blame Englishmen of the upper and middle classes for delaying to grant universal suffrage. Liberty In The Nineteenth Century 2011-12-24T03:08:02.240Z The possessions of the clergy, valued at $400,000,000, were then put up at auction, and sold to speculators at prices that at once betrayed the venal spirit of the agitators. The War Upon Religion Being an Account of the Rise and Progress of Anti-christianism in Europe 2011-12-24T03:07:55.507Z Fox pronounced a high eulogy upon him, but denied that his parliaments had been venal. Lord Chatham His Early Life and Connections 2012-01-02T03:00:18.893Z His voice rising in anger, Chenier describes his encounters with venal priests, pitiful beggars, uncaring nobles. Star Tenors Kaufmann, Calleja Make Thrilling Pact With Devil 2011-12-22T06:24:08Z The passage exhibits the benign and contemporary influences of Lord Macaulay and Mr. Bowdler, and it contains all the necessary ingredients, except perhaps a "venal Chancellor" and a "greedy mistress." Modern Essays 2011-12-13T03:00:25.577Z She had multitudes of admirers; and the cozening tricks she used to wheedle and entice a pack of simpletons, made her no better than any other cheap and venal beauty. The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi; Volume the First 2011-12-12T03:00:27.507Z “Dissatisfaction with the level of wages and a distrust of power as venal and detached are directly reflected in United Russia’s approval rating,” Grigoriy Kertman, the Public Opinion Foundation’s chief analyst, said before the vote. Putin’s Hold on Parliament Weakens as Communists Advance 2011-12-05T07:31:02Z They hear now of broken contracts, dishonest bargains, venal elections, mercenary marriages, and, perhaps, profligate seductions. Household Education 2011-12-02T03:00:25.437Z Poverty, ethnic and religious differences, corruption, land disputes, history and venal leaders make full electoral democracy a very risky system for some societies. Congo's Election Chaos: When Having the Vote Fixes Nothing 2011-12-01T01:06:12Z Everything has become venal, and competition invades even the domain of thought. Socialism 2011-11-27T03:00:13.337Z These persons are known as "lobbyists," and the means they employ to secure or prevent legislation are often improper and sometimes venal. Government in the United States National, State and Local 2011-11-16T03:00:28.590Z The sties of sense Are none of mine; the brutish, loveless wrong, The venal charm, the simulated flush Of fleshly passion, they are none of mine, Only corruptions of me. The Epic of Hades In Three Books 2011-11-16T03:00:28.060Z Farewell the friendship that is false, the love that is venal, the happiness that deceives like the desert mirage! Mated from the Morgue A tale of the Second Empire 2011-11-15T03:00:23.507Z All these poets, like their Post-islamic brethren generally, were professional encomiasts, greedy, venal, and ready to revile any one who would not purchase their praise. A Literary History of the Arabs 2011-11-13T03:00:15.660Z One of these venal drivers was neatly caught by Mr. Chaplin, of the once well-known coaching firm of Chaplin and Horne. The Bath Road History, Fashion, & Frivolity on an Old Highway 2011-11-06T02:00:11.073Z The scene of action was too remote, the subjects too selfish, and the ministers too venal or interested to carry out, with fidelity, the benign ordinances of the government at home. Mexico, Aztec, Spanish and Republican Vol. 1 of 2 A Historical, Geographical, Political, Statistical and Social Account of That Country From the Period of the Invasion by the Spaniards to the Present Time; With a View of the Ancient Aztec Empire and Civilization; A Historical Sketch of the Late War; And Notices of New Mexico and California 2011-11-02T02:00:11.380Z Empty venal blessings, Which sting more deep than curses! The Epic of Hades In Three Books 2011-11-16T03:00:28.060Z A more obviously venal motive is that green investing is good for the image—unusually, the World Bank publishes the names of investors in its green offerings. Climate bonds: A dull shade of green 2011-10-27T08:48:43Z Every writer will admit this whose pen is not enslaved by fear, or rendered venal by interest. Martyria or Andersonville Prison 2011-10-22T02:00:28.563Z The Congo Press Bureau, which has stifled the voice of the more venal portion of the Belgian and Parisian Press, had not at that time attained the efficiency which it afterward reached. The Crime of the Congo 2011-10-13T02:00:47.603Z There was not a person of note in the Republic whose value he did not know, nor was there a venal politician with whose price he was unacquainted. Mexico, Aztec, Spanish and Republican Vol. 1 of 2 A Historical, Geographical, Political, Statistical and Social Account of That Country From the Period of the Invasion by the Spaniards to the Present Time; With a View of the Ancient Aztec Empire and Civilization; A Historical Sketch of the Late War; And Notices of New Mexico and California 2011-11-02T02:00:11.380Z Your reason is the venal slave of selfishness and terror. John Ronge: The Holy Coat Of Treves New German-Catholic Chruch 2011-10-12T02:00:44.710Z Cobbett's biographer, Edward Smith, describes the book as "one of the most horrible collections of abuse which even that venal day produced." The Life Of Thomas Paine, Vol. I. (of II) With A History of His Literary, Political and Religious Career in America France, and England; to which is added a Sketch of Paine by William Cobbett 2011-10-12T02:00:38.787Z To charge an entire people with barbarity, because its rulers sanction crime, and a vile and venal press applaud the motives and the deeds, should not be maintained without long deliberation. Martyria or Andersonville Prison 2011-10-22T02:00:28.563Z The reforms' success also may hinge on progress in Russia's uphill battle against corruption, which military prosecutors say siphons one-fifth of the military budget into the pockets of contractors and venal officers. Analysis: Russia feeds arms addiction as soft power fails 2011-10-11T12:13:24Z The international focus on “corruption” tends to paint Afghan merchants as venal and incapable. Op-Ed Contributors: Afghan Myths, 10 Years In 2011-10-08T02:00:24Z She had heard that the Persian officials were venal, and that anything in the empire might be had for a price. The Golden Hope A Story of the Time of King Alexander the Great 2011-10-02T02:00:13.920Z But when the people stand apart from each other, and when ministers can obtain the services of venal writers, the star of liberty grows dim, and patriotism becomes dangerous and obsolete. Secret History of the Court of England, from the Accession of George the Third to the Death of George the Fourth, Volume II (of 2) Including, Among Other Important Matters, Full Particulars of the Mysterious Death of the Princess Charlotte 2011-10-01T02:00:34.837Z Across the country, PTS enriched venal officials, did nothing for wannabe defectors from the Taliban and hardened perceptions of the government as corrupt, feckless and insincere. Why the Afghan Plan to Woo Taliban Fighters Is Floundering 2011-09-27T09:55:00Z Alexandria is a commercial town; Memphis is a decaying greatness; and the priests are venal and no longer know the Hermetic wisdom. The Tour A Story of Ancient Egypt 2011-09-23T02:00:23.040Z Italy likewise has not yet shaken off the influence of those venal genealogists who, three hundred years ago, sold pedigrees cheaply to all comers. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 5 "Gassendi, Pierre" to "Geocentric" 2011-09-02T02:00:20.450Z The mad, the violent, the malicious, the venal, inhabit this land," repeated Kmita after Count Veyhard, "and there are no others! The Deluge, Vol. I. (of 2) An Historical Novel of Poland, Sweden, and Russia. 2011-08-26T02:00:24.433Z In India, tens of thousands of middle-class people respond to a quasi-Gandhian activist's call for a second freedom struggle – this time, against the country's venal "brown masters", as one protester told the Wall Street Journal. The dead end of globalisation looms before our youth 2011-08-25T20:00:02Z He dared to believe him, Beverly Allen, cheaply venal—a puppet, whose legal rulings were at the beck and call of corporate influence! The Long Lane's Turning 2011-08-23T02:00:34Z In this city I have met none save merchants, usurers and venal women. The Tour A Story of Ancient Egypt 2011-09-23T02:00:23.040Z As a matter of fact, no man was more free or outspoken in his criticism of the policy of his employers than this apparently venal writer. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 5 "Gassendi, Pierre" to "Geocentric" 2011-09-02T02:00:20.450Z He was venal, was the head waiter, and he remembered the pleasant, velvety rustle of a bill in his palm. Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford 2011-08-11T02:00:13.017Z That which brought about this open warfare was the refusal of Congress any longer to recognize the president on account of his high-handed, illegal, and venal official conduct. Equatorial America Descriptive of a Visit to St. Thomas, Martinique, Barbadoes, and the Principal Capitals of South America 2011-08-05T02:00:46.387Z For them the Lord is a venal human being, whose protection they can procure by bribery, and they now think themselves absolved from all humane and Christian duty. Only a Girl: or, A Physician for the Soul. 2011-07-13T02:00:14.230Z Even the philosophers here are avaricious and venal. The Tour A Story of Ancient Egypt 2011-09-23T02:00:23.040Z The problem for Cameron is that his decision to hire Coulson looks at best spectacularly naive and at worst venal, a sign that his appetite for office overwhelmed his scruples. With Ex-Aide's Arrest, UK Phone Hacking Scandal Comes to Downing Street 2011-07-08T21:00:26Z The Intendant Bigot was entirely venal, a man of low morality, who feathered his nest regardless of the public danger. The Colonization of North America 1492-1783 2011-07-06T02:00:47.077Z Even heaven-taught Genius proffer'd venal lays, The servile arts enlisted in his praise, And the rich spoils of old Italia's shore As trophies proud, his pirate legions bore. Olive Leaves Or, Sketches of Character 2011-06-25T02:00:21.120Z Money!" retorted the indignant chieftain; "money! it is good for base-souled, venal Russians! Travels in the Steppes of the Caspian Sea, the Crimea, the Caucasus, &c. 2011-06-25T02:00:14.203Z It should not frighten one to see the court and its underlings venal. Modern Society 2011-06-23T02:00:27.897Z She spoke of the venal fatigue of her eyes, of her lips hired by the night, of her hair entrusted to brutal hands, of her divinity crucified. Ancient Manners Also Known As Aphrodite 2011-06-13T02:00:23.863Z Attack the messenger Take the dumbest, most venal people in the press and online attacking you and conflate them with the perfectly respectable ones asking reasonable questions. How Anthony Weiner should've handled this 2011-06-07T12:01:00Z Quite incens'd to see Their utter want of pitying courtesy, I drove these venal people all away, And shut a wine-glass o'er him, to exclude Their coarse intrusion. Olive Leaves Or, Sketches of Character 2011-06-25T02:00:21.120Z He tied the veins and found that venal blood flowed into the heart. Our Legal Heritage June 2011 (Sixth) Edition 2011-06-03T02:00:23.737Z The mystical virtues of the cross were the incessant theme of the Monachal Orders, and it was kissed in rapture on the venal indulgence expedited by the papal Hierophant. Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature 2011-06-03T02:00:19.227Z And there was abundant occasion: municipal affairs were corrupt, courts weak or venal, or both. The Letters of Ambrose Bierce With a Memoir by George Sterling 2011-05-26T02:00:19.673Z The venal Pittsburgh papers screamed about the outbreaks that had been crushed by the gallant State police, and praised them for their bravery in facing the "rioting mobs." The Great Steel Strike and its Lessons 2011-05-07T02:00:25.193Z The question should, in fact, be: Why can't the media exercise restraint in the face of a grossly manipulative and venal campaign waged by a TV personality? How Donald Trump's ego killed a pro sports league 2011-04-21T20:35:00Z A generation of Ivy League economists was enjoying both professional esteem and financial industry paychecks until the Wall Street crisis of 2008 made them look pretty dumb, if not venal. Qaddafi's Extreme Makeover 2011-04-07T03:01:42Z It is a grave and weighty question, whose conditions impose the conviction that we are unfit to legislate for ourselves,—that we are too weak, or too venal, or too ignorant, or too dishonest. The Knight Of Gwynne, Vol. I (of II) 2011-04-04T02:00:09.197Z Such was the origin of the pacta conventa, and such the first venal bargain, by which the energies of Poland were bartered away, and aristocratic tyranny made the basis of the constitution. The American Quarterly Review No. XVIII, June 1831 (Vol 9) 2011-04-02T02:00:12.460Z The officials sent out from the mother country to conduct the public service are described as venal, mercenary, and ignorant. The Canadian Portrait Gallery - Volumes 1 to 4 2011-03-23T02:00:23.527Z It condemned the former minister's behaviour at the time as a "cynical and venal abuse of office". Former Irish minister Michael Lowry accused of collusion over telecoms bid 2011-03-22T18:42:51Z This your solemn address would therefore have been more properly made to your sovereign and his venal Parliament. Benjamin Franklin Representative selections, with introduction, bibliograpy, and notes 2011-03-08T03:00:46.777Z Is it because we are bungling legislators that they wish for us in London?—is it because we are venal they seek our company, because we are inefficient they ask for our cooperation? The Knight Of Gwynne, Vol. I (of II) 2011-04-04T02:00:09.197Z Every thing was venal; and the king grew rich, without growing happy. The American Quarterly Review No. XVIII, June 1831 (Vol 9) 2011-04-02T02:00:12.460Z Would n't it be a nice example, I ask, to the girls, if I was to overlook K. I.'s conduct, and call it a "venal" offence? The Dodd Family Abroad, Vol. I 2011-03-03T03:00:56.130Z The venal judges are paid by fees on the suits which they decide; and popular superstition and imposture possess the royal sanction for abuse. The Highlands of Ethiopia 2011-02-25T03:01:07.193Z Franklin's eloquent mock humility inspired Horace Walpole to write: Sarcastic Sawney, swol'n with spite and prate, On silent Franklin poured his venal hate. Benjamin Franklin Representative selections, with introduction, bibliograpy, and notes 2011-03-08T03:00:46.777Z Of the various ladies celebrated by Horace and Tibullus, it would really be difficult to discover which was most worthless, venal, and profligate. The Romance of Biography (Vol 1 of 2) or Memoirs of Women Loved and Celebrated by Poets, from the Days of the Troubadours to the Present Age. 3rd ed. 2 Vols. 2011-02-25T03:01:04.597Z Is the Football Association tacitly admitting what most of us have known all along – that the league they birthed, with its fabulous wealth, is the be-all-and-end-all in these increasingly venal times? St Mary's not fooled as Manchester United send their reserves 2011-01-31T07:01:02Z He alone was irreconcilable, and blustered about legal proceedings, only desisting when persuaded that he had no case, even for the venal courts of San Juan. His Unknown Wife 2011-01-27T03:00:38.763Z Venality was venal, and, its consent being necessary to the salvation of the state, had to be bought. Irish History and the Irish Question 2011-01-16T03:00:22.640Z Taseer's status as a high-profile politician also diluted any sympathy for him from those sections of the population resentful of a political class they perceive as being inept, distant and venal. Why Pakistan's Leaders are Paralyzed in the Face of Religious Extremism 2011-01-14T04:05:00Z The leaked cables cast Putin as Russia's "alpha-dog" leader who allows a venal elite of corrupt officials to siphon off cash from energy sales, comments Russia's leadership have dismissed. Russia's Gazprom shackled by corruption: U.S. cables 2011-01-06T12:05:42Z The venal Negro vote went to the highest bidder, carried the elections, and, with the whiskey influence, governed the town. Following the Color Line an account of Negro citizenship in the American democracy 2011-01-06T03:00:45.737Z He restored my faith that there are at least some people who aren’t completely venal. | Split the Check 2010-12-12T14:31:16Z They can smell out phonies and crooks, the power-mad and the truly venal. The Deepest Dangers Facing the United States 2010-12-04T05:00:00Z But he is simultaneously desperate to revive rapid economic growth and stimulate a sluggish industrial economy hampered by rising costs of energy, rapidly diminishing resources and venal bankers. Climate change v capitalism: the feast is almost over 2010-10-15T13:01:00Z One way through the venal mess, Lopes says, is multi-neighborhood mapping, which entails surveying local residents — and extensive interviews with presumed owners — and then trying to match the findings with any available records. Evicting Haiti's Homeless: How Land Tenure Hampers Recovery 2010-09-24T23:10:00Z While the players themselves are pre‑emptively demonised, and crooked dramatis personae held up as a scourge that must be purged with life bans, the machinery of corruption behind individual venal acts will remain untouched. The machinery of corruption in sport will go on untouched 2010-09-05T08:00:00Z The condition of the levees themselves was compromised by a dysfunctional array of local boards that functioned more like venal fiefdoms. How New Orleans is Cleaning Up Its Big Sleazy Reputation 2010-08-29T14:05:00Z Regional governments co-opted Sufism--a variant of Islam popular in Central and South Asia--by building government Islamic schools and mosques, but their own venal appetites tainted the faith by association. Russia's Long (and Brutal) War on Terror 2010-08-21T09:10:00Z Inevitable resignation The national dailies get their first chance to analyse the resignation of David Laws as Chief Secretary to the Treasury over his expenses claims. was foolish but not venal. Bleak outlook on gulf oil 2010-05-31T05:00:00Z They turned out to be venal as well as violent. Seeking recruits 2010-05-13T22:05:00Z One Democratic lawmaker has said that it has made Arizona a "laughing stock" but it's difficult to find an ounce of humour in this kind of venal legislation. Arizona: Boycott the Diamondbacks 2010-04-27T06:00:00Z But step by step, I believe that Haiti, a country of personal goodwill and stunning artistic accomplishment as much as it is a place of dysfunctional politics and venal politicians, will indeed rebuild. 2010-01-23T01:23:00Z The evil fame of the Italian cohorts has survived in the phrase “praetorianism” used to imply a venal military despotism. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 6 "Armour Plates" to "Arundel, Earls of" I am sorry to see a spirit so venal prevailing everywhere. Familiar Letters of John Adams and His Wife Abigail Adams During the Revolution with a Memoir of Mrs. Adams Instead of loyal and grateful friendship, the despot was mocked by a venal flattery which was only its mimicry. Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius Our venal politicians would do well to profit by the example of China. The Story of Malta Even then most people attributed their sufferings to the venal ministry and hoped the king would cease to be an automaton and prove himself a man worthy of the high station he occupied. Sages and Heroes of the American Revolution And there was no tongue there to denounce the infamous terrorism that had crushed the freedom of the election or had bought the votes of vile and venal men with beer. The Progressionists, and Angela. His own police are venal, full of doubt; Indeed the cheapest little racetrack tout Knows more what sportsmanship is all about. The Book of Gud The system of Roman education, which was profoundly rhetorical, became a hot-bed of this venal oratory. Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius It may be laid down as an axiom, to be accepted with closed eyes, that the chief idol of all actors is their venal interest. The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi Volume the Second To see them now rudely trampled upon by a venal ministry roused the patriotism and indignation of Mr. Yates. Sages and Heroes of the American Revolution Have they firmness enough to meet the fury of a venal House of Commons? Junius Unmasked or, Thomas Paine the author of the Letters of Junius and the Declaration of Independence Was such outrageous worship of the aristocracy by partial judges and venal governors to be endured in a country of freemen? Tried for Her Life A Sequel to "Cruel As the Grave" These venal impostors, in the words of Tacitus, were always being banished, but they always returned. Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius I never saw an immodest look in one their faces, and never heard of any venal profligacy. The English in the West Indies or, The Bow of Ulysses In the advocacy of this proposition by Mr. Jefferson, the adherents of the crown were astonished at the boldness and firmness with which he exposed and laid bare the venal corruption of the British cabinet. Sages and Heroes of the American Revolution They consider you as united with your servants against America; and know how to distinguish the sovereign and a venal parliament on one side, from the real sentiments of the English people on the other. Junius Unmasked or, Thomas Paine the author of the Letters of Junius and the Declaration of Independence Would Kate Herbert have made me such a speech?" thought I. "Would she have declared herself so venal and so worldly?—and why not? A Day's Ride A Life's Romance He pillories the venal star-reader from the East and the Jewish hag who interprets dreams. Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius They had shown themselves shamelessly venal, and a provincial governor who made judicious disbursements could be confident that he would be acquitted of any charges of extortion brought against him. A History of Rome to 565 A. D. Political cliques and venal presses have been the executioners. Sages and Heroes of the American Revolution For she is not wanton; she is not merely venal; she is pitilessly selfish and fiendishly malicious. The Galaxy, April, 1877 Vol. XXIII.—April, 1877.—No. 4. I advised a ministry of such materials as the people might trust and the court corrupt—men of low origin, violent, exacting, but venal. Gerald Fitzgerald The Chevalier The clergy had grown indifferent to the licentiousness of the age, and many bishops and patriarchs were themselves venal and degraded. Women of Early Christianity Courage, strength, knowledge of the use of arms, and the consciousness of a good cause, enabled them quickly to overpower their venal opponents. Tales from the German. Volume II. The Lichtensteins, The Sorceress, The Anabaptist They soared above the acrimonious scurrility of venal party spirit. Sages and Heroes of the American Revolution She bribed Suillus, a man in high position and notoriously venal, to accuse Asiaticus and Popp�a of being engaged in an improper intrigue. Roman Women You may remember Pope's allusion to it: "The Crown of Poland, venal twice an age, To just three millions stinted modest Gage." Gerald Fitzgerald The Chevalier Why, verily, none but the profligate venal Clergyman. Modest Remarks upon the Bishop of London's Letter Concerning the Late Earthquakes He despised them as venal: and he had resolved to use them for his own advantage. Rulers of India: Lord Clive Happily, if it be great, it is venal; and although the price be a princely ransom, the bargain is worth the money. The Daltons, Volume I (of II) Or,Three Roads In Life He looked at the poor judge babbling innocently as he might at some venal go-between in the markets of Cairo. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 20, September, 1877. This venal slave lost his head when the Cæsar saw me. A Christian But a Roman The trade went on as briskly as before, the smugglers being openly aided by venal officials not only at Canton but at other points along the coast. Historic Tales, Vol. 12 (of 15) The Romance of Reality He wrote that his success had been made very doubtful, and that, if further cruelties were perpetrated, ten millions of gold pieces would not bribe the venal Poles. The History of Freedom Poland, once a potent and magnificent kingdom, when it sunk into an elective monarchy, became “venal thrice an age.” Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3 They would proffer venal consolation for the loss of my wife and children; they would congratulate me maliciously on my conversion from ultra-montanism. Stories by American Authors, Volume 2 But though a Christian must not talk in this Manner, yet I believe it may be one of those Sins which the Church of Rome holds to be venial, or rather venal. The Lovers Assistant, or, New Art of Love Whatever Field's practices—and they were venal and unscrupulous to a great degree, as will be shown—he was an astute organizer. History of the Great American Fortunes, Vol. I Conditions in Settlement and Colonial Times Here was an anonymous person who, as Newman described it, "calls one pope a weak and venal dunce, and another a sacrilegious swindler, an infamous convict, and an heresiarch ex cathedrâ." The History of Freedom And then, if I succeed, and if Pitman is staunch—there’s nothing to do but find a venal 281 doctor; and that ought to be simple enough in a place like London. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 7 (of 25) He would have liked to spit in their faces--all venal creatures--he knew quite enough about them now, ay, and loathed them. The Son of His Mother In vain does he call in the aid of the venal tipster. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 98, 1890.05.10 But, in fact, he was far from being the only venal official concerned in the current frauds. History of the Great American Fortunes, Vol. I Conditions in Settlement and Colonial Times The right of voting is as bad as possible in the freemen, who are the lowest rabble of the town and, as it appears, a parcel of venal wretches. The Greville Memoirs A Journal of the Reigns of King George IV and King William IV, Vol. II We bury him in the cellar, which seems made for it; and then all I have to do is to start out and find a venal doctor.” The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 7 (of 25) With no mother to guide me in a choice, with money enough to invite venal offers, I was, she thought, liable to peculiar temptations. Mabel's Mistake He was not venal, not corrupt, not a respecter of persons. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 88, February, 1865 This handsome sum was over and above the pickings and stealings of the venal officials. Due South or Cuba Past and Present Under the pretense of virtue venal love has too long been covered with a veil of hypocrisy. The Sexual Question A Scientific, psychological, hygienic and sociological study “This venal doctor seems quite a desideratum,” he reflected. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 7 (of 25) The republic has less to fear from her illiterate and venal voters than from those who, knowing her peril, refuse to come to the rescue. The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume V The cowardly venal Press must be swept away. Dreamers of the Ghetto Smuggling was connived at by the venal authorities, and the laws, which were so stringent in the letter, were practically null and void. Due South or Cuba Past and Present Here we see more distinctly the transition from venal love to free concubinage based on mutual love. The Sexual Question A Scientific, psychological, hygienic and sociological study “Did you never hear of venal doctors?” inquired Morris. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 7 (of 25) This man was the Tweed of Mexico, and one of the most venal officials ever trusted by the people. Aztec Land With a venal expression of delight, the gunner regarded the contents of the bag, feeling the gems one by one. The Strollers And the venal English press which conceals the fact, what shall be said of it? Ireland as It Is And as It Would be Under Home Rule The fate of the children of venal concubines is generally very sad. The Sexual Question A Scientific, psychological, hygienic and sociological study As a friend, affectionate and volatile—as an enemy, fierce and placable—as a politician, patriotic and venal. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 3, August, 1850. I have obtained his address for the purpose of engaging him to assist me in refuting the Jew, Pinto, whose venal pen has been employed in the most insolent manner against the Americans. The Diplomatic Correspondence of the American Revolution, Vol. IX What could Walpole tell him about his Lords and Commons, but that they were all venal? Henry Esmond; The English Humourists; The Four Georges The latter a pattern of personal purity and lofty ideals; the former as venal as the King's Parliaments, and as unscrupulous in pursuit of his passions as the King himself. Holbein |
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