| 单词 | debased |
| 例句 | His voice was soft, as though faded, and his accent less debased than that of the majority of proles. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z I would sit listening for hours, wondering how on earth they could laugh so freely, trying to grasp the miracle that gave their debased lives the semblance of a human existence. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z “He says the language is dying. He thinks words are being debased. So he tries to speak entirely in weird words and irony, so no one can simplify anything he says.” Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Fearing the worst, the debased tlatoani made a begging public appearance on behalf of the Spanish. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Everest, the purists sniffed, had been debased and profaned. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z The remarks grew ever more debased and treacherous so that Mr Charles - at least so he claimed - was obliged to intervene with the suggestion that such talk was bad form. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z Although the role of chief was a venerable and esteemed one, it had, even seventy-five years ago, become debased by the control of an unsympathetic white government. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I am not accustomed to receiving scoldings from men the most debased, liars & degenerate rogues. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z Working as a lawyer in South Africa meant operating under a debased system of justice, a code of law that did not enshrine equality but its opposite. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “They also debased their currency, undercut the universality of the iron law, and antagonized the Adem.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z “Goodness knows what debased fantasy he’s having,” Ignatius commented. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Turner thought about getting to work on conquering his debased self, but decided that could wait till morning. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z But in the presence of whites he would play the role of a clown of the most debased and degraded type. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Her art is poetic at a time when the word has become debased. Louise Bourgeois: a web of emotions 2010-06-01T20:30:00Z Her legitimacy as a model, wife, and mother were debased as a means of patriarchal control and deprivation. The legacy of Anna Nicole Smith and why we need to retire the term "gold digger" 2023-05-23T04:00:00Z It subtends and engulfs everything around it, voraciously, until it contains the whole verbal universe, and Nutsack is all that’s left: infinitely hot, infinitely dense, horribly debased, and extremely funny. Grab Life By The Sugar Frosted Nutsack 2012-04-11T16:53:05Z If Ana is debased in this story, it’s emotionally. The Sad, Shiny Surfaces of the “Fifty Shades” Movies 2017-02-14T05:00:00Z In my view Siskel and Ebert and the genre of movie review they spawned debased film and cheated its mass audience. Letters: All About Plot 2010-04-15T15:40:00Z Rattled and debased after Aeneas abandons her, Dido fantasizes about murdering the Trojans, but eventually, she accepts her fate, recalling sensuous memories of her time with the questing hero. Review: The Met Opera Orchestra Raises a Glorious Noise 2022-06-17T04:00:00Z Bruce Helford, one of “The Conners” executive producers, said writers had not wanted to write out the family’s fierce matriarch is a way that seemed “pathetic or debased.” Roseanne calls TV death 'morbid,' audience slumps for 'The Conners' 2018-10-17T04:00:00Z Inevitably, this leads our narrator to sound somewhat abject or debased, given how abject or debased the culture is likely to be at any given point. David Shields: Literature saved my life! 2013-02-09T00:30:00Z Older people have a bad reputation right now—their votes elected Trump, and their choices assured an environmental future that looks increasingly debased. David Brooks’s Conversion Story 2019-04-29T04:00:00Z That the king can remain immune to her eloquent protests at her humiliation is a measure of how debased his humanity has become. | 'The Winter's Tale': The Cool Ferocity of a King Inflamed by Jealousy 2011-07-24T22:32:50Z You hope so, but it’s also quite possible that Trump has debased the presidency in such a way that it may never recover. How Donald Trump has blown the White House drama out of the water 2017-12-19T05:00:00Z There are also voluntary celibates, or “volcels”, and Men Going Their Own Way, or “MGTOW”, who have resolved to distance themselves from women, who they view as debased and morally corrupt. What I learned about male desire in a sex doll factory 2020-10-19T04:00:00Z I don’t know his argument against Twitter, but I tend to think that we always hear as though the language is getting ruined, getting debased. Ben Marcus: Jonathan Franzen’s cultural commentary is really embarrassing 2014-02-10T01:00:00Z As with Rocker’s comments, the framing of a subway tableau as some kind of debased and terrifying dystopia was met with widespread derision. This Is the Joke That Liberals Need 2017-03-03T05:00:00Z As for surrender, that idea has become debased: it's come to mean what the rest of us do when confronted by a work of genius. Surrender. It's Brian Eno 2010-04-28T20:35:00Z But of course, the real drama at the statehouse revolved around Barb’s debased treatment as Bill’s intern. ArtsBeat: 'Big Love' Watch: A Family in Crisis 2011-02-14T16:03:30Z Yet here’s the main thing William and the Man In Black have in common: They both recognize the park as a debased experiment, conducted by people with contempt for humanity. ‘Westworld,’ Season 1, Episode 5: The Search for Meaning 2016-10-30T04:00:00Z Subtitled "State of England", and published soon after Amis's departure for America, decrying the country's "moral decrepitude", it is a full-on indictment of a debased culture. Lionel Asbo by Martin Amis – review 2012-06-08T21:55:05Z Worst of all was to imagine this debased form of work as a model for the proletarian future to come. Why Etan Patz still haunts us 2012-05-25T18:00:00Z If we fail to identify and comprehend its most debased and nihilistic intents, the results can be catastrophic. In Defense of Jane Austen. Also Zebras. 2019-09-27T04:00:00Z Some films come to prop up the faltering, debased notion of American exceptionalism; others to expose it as a bright and shining lie. Roof down, music up: American Honey and the neverending search for the American dream 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z As gradually grows clear, his overriding theme is loyalty —to friends, family and party but, above all, to living by a principled code of honor in a debased and chaotic world. Review | If you only know ‘The Three Musketeers,’ you owe yourself the pleasure of its sequel, ‘Twenty Years After’ 2019-11-13T05:00:00Z Horror was considered a debased genre in the early 90s and people were looking for a new direction. How we made Candyman: 'I got a $1,000 bonus for every bee sting' 2019-06-25T04:00:00Z Germany is a country with cause to remember what happens when a population is force-fed a national media diet of fraudulent journalism, threat-mongering hatred and debased gossip. Home thoughts, and abroad 2013-02-05T16:53:37Z The suburbia he finds for himself turns out to be a fatally debased version of the television fantasy, not the safe haven he'd imagined. John Burnside: a life in writing 2011-08-26T21:54:01Z Setting the story around the saga of Bernard Madoff, the writers created a fictional counterpart to him and his brand of debased profiteering. Year in Culture: Machinations, Criminal And/or Familial 2010-12-17T14:43:11Z The flip side of nationalism is always racism, the exaltation of the self, the tribe, the nation, the race above the other, who is debased and dehumanized as unworthy of life. Heeding the lessons of James Joyce's "Ulysses," a century later 2022-02-01T05:00:00Z When he learned that she preferred to help the poor, he warned her that her paintings were “gradually getting debased” and showing signs of “real vulgarity.” A Renewed Spotlight on Two Women Artists 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z Assange distanced himself from Bill Condon's film, describing it as "wretched" work "of debased truth" in a to the actor playing him. Assange biopic tops film flops list 2013-11-27T11:14:48Z Which means there's no justification, other than making a buck, for spoon-feeding kids a debased, pretty-to-think-so version of a Shakespeare classic that can mean so much later. 'Gnomeo & Juliet': Blame Elton John for this happily-ever-after version 2011-02-09T18:22:03Z Everywhere Ms. Griswold travels, Christianity and Islam are debased by their own practitioners. Books of The Times: In ?The Tenth Parallel,? by Eliza Griswold, Religions Clash 2010-08-17T23:26:00Z You might expect a defamation trial pitting one movie star against another to unleash a fire hose of debased memes in both directions, but that’s not what’s happening here. TikTok’s Amber Heard Hate Machine 2022-05-26T04:00:00Z In this account, writing is already a kind of adaptation, in which inner experience is translated into a commodity form, alienated and debased. “Native Son” and the Cinematic Aspirations of Richard Wright 2019-04-04T04:00:00Z “The hatred of a group qua group is, after all, the most debased and irrational of hatreds, the weakest, the most banal,” she writes. In ‘Intimations,’ Zadie Smith Applies Her Even Temper to Tumultuous Times 2020-07-22T04:00:00Z Examines the inner workings of an arcane society in which winners are losers, excrement is extolled, decorum is debased, and a homosexual horse-breeding ritual is conducted annually. Style Invitational Week 1091: Turn a good idea into a bad one with 1 weird trick! That, too, is Venice: seductively grand, but also sultry, hazy, a little bit debased. 3 Days, 150 Paintings: A Whirlwind Tintoretto Tour 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z Yet Netflix’s “House of Cards,” which featured a plot about Chinese corruption, was a huge hit in China, with Chinese officials expressing delight at its debased portrait of American democracy. CBS Censors “The Good Fight” for a Musical Short About China 2019-05-07T04:00:00Z By the time he came to Iceland, Morris had founded his decorating firm Morris, Marshall, Faulkner & Co with the idea of reforming Britain's debased taste in the design of household products. Morris in Iceland 2010-03-27T00:09:00Z The word may have been debased by Blonde Redhead and 4 Non Blondes, but thanks to Blondie the word "blonde" still reminds us of frothy and fabulous pop. New band of the day ? No 774: Blondes 2010-04-27T15:29:00Z The ad, they said, was “debased, sick and insensitive.” ArtsBeat: Jackson 'Autopsy' TV Program Prompts Complaint 2010-12-30T20:17:58Z A charismatic leader suddenly proffers a new hope, some rosy vision of a better life, an escape from a debased existence. Review | What the ‘Resistance Library’ shows us about America’s struggles today 2019-08-28T04:00:00Z The Louvre painting would appear to be a debased version of this subject, to which the attributes of the Baptist were added by another hand. Germaine Greer: The debate over Mona Lisa's identity 2011-02-20T22:30:00Z Men are selfish and debased lunatics, no matter where they are. ArtsBeat: 'Big Love' Watch: Anything Is Possible 2011-02-22T20:10:46Z And suddenly I realized what I was looking at: the remains of someone who was alive just minutes ago, killed in the most brutal and sudden of ways, lying there debased in the dust. I almost died in Syria 2013-04-09T00:00:00Z The music of Richard Wagner is said to have reflected this, just as in a debased way contemporary Black Metal articulates its own aesthetic of supremacy. What is “white supremacy”? A brief history of a term, and a movement, that continues to haunt America 2017-04-23T04:00:00Z "Discovery obviously views this as clever advertising...But in fact the ad makes light of Jackson's death and is debased, sick and insensitive," the letter said. Jackson estate demands autopsy show cancellation 2010-12-30T00:57:20Z Here, Electra is merely debased by her emotional incontinence — literally: Ms. Scott Thomas flings herself to the ground more than once. ‘Electra’ Stars Kristin Scott Thomas at the Old Vic Theater 2014-12-09T05:00:00Z He is, in the debased social media sense of the word, an influencer. ‘Triangle of Sadness’ Review: Don’t Worry, Be Happy 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z She has come to consider awards ceremonies to be commercially debased, she admits. Samantha Morton apologises on radio for knife threat to girl when she was 14 2020-10-04T04:00:00Z In addition, the coinage was debased by the medieval practice of “clipping” of coins, or shaving off the edges to save the silver. Means of exchange 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z Islam's aura of purity and principle, however, had been debased, Khomeini believed. Strange Rebels: 1979 and the Birth of the 21st Century by Christian Caryl – review 2013-07-07T07:01:13Z The very concepts of art, culture and creativity are debased by Hall's unquestioning reruns of the philistine corruptions of Thatcher-Blairspeak. Letters: There's more to life than gross domestic product 2010-04-01T23:05:00Z Totem poles, it seemed, were everywhere, often in a debased and crudely carved format. Book review: History of totem pole is a story of near-death and rebirth of an art form 2010-05-26T23:20:00Z Instead, he uses his talents to highlight the ways our public discourse has become debased in the Twitter era. October galleries: Apocalypse now 2017-10-10T04:00:00Z Discovery is promoting “Naked and Afraid” as “the Everest of survival challenges,” but it looks more like Central Park — the danger seems doubtful even by the debased standards of reality television. Television Review: ‘Naked and Afraid,’ Jungle Reality on Discovery 2013-06-21T21:58:13Z The sacred vows of motherhood are debased in several of the best films in MOMA’s series, including “My Name Is Julia Ross,” a terrifyingly claustrophobic drama by the audacious stylist Joseph H. Lewis, from 1945. Richard Brody: Women Onscreen in Two Film-Noir Retrospectives 2014-07-21T04:00:00Z And at those drunken or debased moments in which Evelyn is at her lowest, Ms. Clifford does succeed; her mastery of the sociological details of misguided ambition is sure and savage. Review: ‘Everybody Rise,’ Stephanie Clifford’s Debut Novel, Features That Old-Money Scent 2015-08-19T04:00:00Z I have to admit I didn’t expect to enjoy such an old-fashioned show; delight, illumination and uplift feel like debased currencies in 2018, purchasing nothing. Review: Surprise Lessons From John Lithgow’s ‘Stories by Heart’ 2018-01-11T05:00:00Z Toneri plans to destroy the Earth, which he sees as corrupt and debased. Elaborate 'Last' in Naruto series packs visual punch 2015-02-20T05:00:00Z It’s hard to even get your head around just how debased the political culture is now because of Trump. ‘The Wire’ at 20: ‘This Show Will Live Forever’ 2022-05-31T04:00:00Z But given the debased standards of action cinema these days this might be enough to make "The Town" a hit. "The Town": Ben Affleck's Boston fantasy 2010-09-17T14:01:00Z Hanson’s work is a synthesis of two impulses: the wish to record, to educate, and to protest, and the wish to find an arresting sort of beauty in even these debased places. Poisoned Landscapes 2016-03-11T05:00:00Z But Downsizing shows this utopian project promptly being debased by human nature and, more specifically, by American capitalism. Alexander Payne on Downsizing: ‘The film isn’t a major statement – it’s a metaphor’ 2018-01-07T05:00:00Z They charge modernist art not only with fostering the spiritual climate for Hitler and Stalin but also with allowing popular culture to run amok and become debased. The war on culture: How conservatives and progressives joined forces to crush art 2021-12-25T05:00:00Z In the plays, Vanek is variously debased and demeaned: the artist is, in effect, made to become an alien in his own country. Vaclav Havel: An Intertwining of Artist and Politician 2011-12-19T10:10:08Z However, the society is so debased and degraded at this point that she will no doubt win the Nobel Prize 40 years from now for golden nuggets like "Shake it Off." Taylor Swift, Entering a New Era, Sticks to a Safe Space: Tumblr 2017-11-08T05:00:00Z “When we meet him it’s evident that he’s somewhat emotionally arrested, he’s shut down, he’s withdrawn and debased,” Bell says. With ‘Turn,’ AMC goes from meth and zombies to 1776 spies 2014-04-02T23:42:25Z However "well-intentioned" the moviemaker, the basic effect of this debased dependency is not changeable. Creating a spectacle of slaughter at the movies: Ambush at Kamikaze Pass 2019-08-17T04:00:00Z "I felt pretty debased and lost," he told the Guardian in 2008. Letterman banned Harmony Korine from his show in the 90s for trying to steal from Meryl Streep 2013-03-27T12:10:42Z Mapplethorpe both exalted and debased the black models who posed for him, an artistic relationship that should invite reassessment for its uneven power dynamic. Review | In three parts, an artistic reexamination of Robert Mapplethorpe 2019-04-07T04:00:00Z Beyond stewing in debased words and sentiments, Mr. Trump also uses strikingly simple language. What We Talk About When We Talk About and Exactly Like Trump 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z The Ayn Rand winner-take-all ethos and the thoroughly disproved trickle-down theory, which holds that helping those who need no help will somehow lift everyone up, continue to be trotted out in debased, zombified form. Joe Biden's economy is, honestly, pretty amazing: How come he doesn't get credit? 2023-11-13T05:00:00Z “He was a man who debased other human beings,” he said. Boston councilmember wants hearing to consider renaming Faneuil Hall due to slavery ties 2023-10-24T04:00:00Z Fellow MP and shadow immigration minister Stephen Kinnock laid into the "clown show that is currently governing our country" who he said had "debased our politics" at their conference last week in Manchester. Labour election rally buzzing - up to a point 2023-10-10T04:00:00Z Humanists held that humankind was inherently rational, beautiful, and noble, rather than debased, wicked, or weak. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z And in this debasement and definition of Black people, they debased and defamed themselves. On Tucker Carlson, Jordan Neely and "how white men fight" 2023-05-05T04:00:00Z Scottish National Party MP John Nicolson said the post was "nauseating" and that it "cheapened and debased" politics. Sir Keir Starmer: 'I stand by every word' says Labour leader on Rishi Sunak attack ad 2023-04-09T04:00:00Z So he was again Tuesday, a day that epitomized the perverse fascination with the former president and the degree to which he has debased the high office he once held. Analysis | Donald Trump, a tawdry case and a nation still mired in his chaos 2023-04-04T04:00:00Z Meanwhile, the tenor of public debate was steadily debased. French pension reforms: Is Macron's government doomed by crisis? 2023-03-18T04:00:00Z Disagreements with Professor Wax, he added, make you feel that “you are a fundamentally debased human being.” UPenn Accuses a Law Professor of Racist Statements. Should She Be Fired? 2023-03-13T04:00:00Z The "joke" is that being a woman is a debased position. The trouble with GOP hypocrisy: Why Jessa Duggar's abortion and Bill Lee's drag aren't "gotchas" 2023-03-03T05:00:00Z At the time, I was intrigued, especially as nearly every metric shows American culture sliding off the edge of sanity into debased, post-Christian chaos. Prayer, revival and ‘Jesus Revolution’: Is our rotting culture on the verge of something big? 2023-03-01T05:00:00Z The burden of being publicly debased felt a tiny bit lighter because she understood how humiliated I felt. Lessons of the audio leak: Solidarity is dead. Let's ditch the label 'people of color' 2022-11-21T05:00:00Z Vegenerates: The debased, un-American sort who would order plant-based sausage at Cracker Barrel. Style Invitational Week 1504: All set — anagram all 100 Scrabble tiles 2022-09-01T04:00:00Z Critics said it was a long-overdue comeuppance for a politician who debased British politics with his populist disregard for ethics and the truth. As Boris Johnson departs, UK takes stock of his messy legacy 2022-08-24T04:00:00Z Poets and philosophers continued to debate whether humanity was exalted or debased by the new views of science. Astronomy 2016-10-13T00:00:00Z She argues that finding shared solutions to these many challenges has been made exceptionally difficult because truth and reality itself have been debased and rejected by the global right. Extremism expert Stephanie Foggett: How the far right is winning the "information war" 2022-08-22T04:00:00Z The attempted murder of Salman Rushdie, 33 years after Iran’s then-supreme leader, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, issued a religious edict calling for his death, is only the latest manifestation of the Islamic Republic’s debased soft power. Salman Rushdie attack shows the hard truths of Iran’s soft power 2022-08-19T04:00:00Z At the end of the day, whether he is praised or debased, he will be like Jack Sparrow: "You have heard of me." Donald Trump gets his revenge on Liz Cheney — but it may be short-lived 2022-08-18T04:00:00Z Extremely online academics embrace a debased intellectual Darwinism: survival of the briefest. Opinion | Blaming social media for academia’s ruin misses a larger, darker truth 2022-07-29T04:00:00Z "These are really high purity gold, whereas the Iron Age gold coins circulating at that time is quite debased - they knew good Roman gold when they saw it," he said. 'Exceptional' Roman gold coin hoard found near Norwich 2022-07-01T04:00:00Z Watching these artists workshop a grocery-store pantomime — or perform debased foodie stunts straight out of “Top Chef: Salò” — you might find your initial laughter giving way to fascination, even appreciation. Review: The wickedly funny ‘Flux Gourmet’ serves up food, poop, orgies, satire — and soul 2022-06-22T04:00:00Z The Supreme Court is an illegitimate and debased institution that is eating away at our democracy. Jan. 6 committee finally zeroes in on Ginni Thomas — but will the Supreme Court? 2022-06-16T04:00:00Z “The Benson Center has debased the standards of this institution with the annual appointment of visiting scholars who frequently champion harmful language and actions — including attending the January 6 insurrection,” the petition adds. Progressives demand CU Boulder close conservative center over ‘White supremacy culture’ 2022-04-20T04:00:00Z But to be so ethically debased as to say this to the face of a grieving sibling? Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Unvaccinated brother dies, and they call it ‘natural selection’ 2022-03-30T04:00:00Z Many had internalized the popular backlash against memoir as a debased form: clickbait, self-absorbed, a kind of narcissist’s public therapy pursued in lieu of writing Big Important Novels. More navel-gazing, please. Melissa Febos thinks personal essays can change the world 2022-03-11T05:00:00Z Political discourse, she warned, had been “debased to the level of … hate and character assassination.” Opinion | The GOP hounding of Liz Cheney recalls the McCarthy-era smearing of another woman who took a stand 2022-02-08T05:00:00Z In a world in which politics and celebrity have become so debased, where winning often seems like the only thing that matters, it’s a stirring sight when athletes flip the moral script. Nadal, Djokovic and how character shaped the plot of the Australian Open 2022-01-30T05:00:00Z “No one deserves to have a beautiful piece of art that is based on a beautiful human to be debased in that way. No matter what your views are,” Kidd said. MLK mural on Central District restaurant defaced, but plans are in place to restore it 2022-01-20T05:00:00Z Fans of the show have had to make do with a stinging lampoon of the debased billionaire class. The major miscalculation behind 'Succession's' unspectacular season 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z For the entirety of the 20th century, advertising had relied on a debased image of Black life to sell things to white people who held all the presumed market power. The Original Black Media King 2021-10-22T04:00:00Z The revengers are often destroyed and debased by their own violence; you don’t leave “The Last House on the Left” with the sense that justice has been done. Review: Justice or revenge? Why not both, in Stephen Graham Jones' new meta slasher novel 2021-08-30T04:00:00Z As debased and depraved as those had already become, they have now been supplanted by much darker principles, which have deadly real-world consequences and pose an existential threat to what remains of American democracy. The dark history of the "Great Replacement": Tucker Carlson's racist fantasy has deep roots 2021-08-21T04:00:00Z Trump and his regime debased America's democracy and political culture, elevating neofascism and white supremacy in an attempt to create a new form of apartheid. Follow the money: Understanding the deep roots of Donald Trump's coup attempt 2021-08-10T04:00:00Z “It has completely debased the legitimacy of this commission because clearly they are not searching for the truth.” House GOP: Pelosi seeks to ‘cover up the facts’ of Jan. 6 2021-07-27T04:00:00Z All those lies and inventions debased our public life. Review | Faith that the truth can still defeat misinformation 2021-07-07T04:00:00Z It's a debased truism of our decaying two-party system: Every moment of political conflict is an apocalypse waiting to happen. America on the knife's edge: Will the next year determine the fate of democracy? 2021-05-02T04:00:00Z As a result, Chinese immigrants were frequently degraded and debased, even though their contributions to America's success were essential. Anti-Asian violence is nothing new: It has a long, disturbing history in the United States 2021-04-18T04:00:00Z Limbaugh is gone now, but we are stuck living in the debased, toxic political environment spun from his hectoring voice. Limbaugh’s legacy 2021-02-18T05:00:00Z The show centered on Kudrow’s Valerie Cherish as she tried to revive her career — and regularly debased herself in front of a reality TV crew while appearing on a new sitcom. Could 'The Comeback' make another comeback? 'Everybody wants to do it' 2021-02-01T05:00:00Z From that point on, almost every step he took and word he uttered undermined, weakened and debased our nation, and just a few weeks ago, it grievously threatened us. Opinion | On accepting a new president as your president 2021-01-22T05:00:00Z Instead, he has taken to the favorite medium of our debased age — Twitter — to polish his battered reputation and preen for the possible pursuit of the presidency. Opinion | ‘Pinocchio’ Pompeo is trying to rewrite the history of the past four years 2021-01-05T05:00:00Z "Trump issued the pardon only after Barr debased the Department of Justice by filing a disingenuous motion to dismiss," he told The New York Times. Trump's pardon of Flynn may be "broader" than Ford's pardon of Nixon, legal expert says 2020-12-02T05:00:00Z “Trump issued the pardon only after Barr debased the Department of Justice by filing a disingenuous motion to dismiss,” Mr. Weissmann said. Citing Pardon, Justice Dept. Asks Judge to ‘Immediately’ Dismiss Flynn Case 2020-11-30T05:00:00Z In the final chapters of the Trump era, she took to wearing all white, as if to lay claim to purity and wholesomeness, protecting her personal brand while the administration became more brazenly debased. Bye-Don: a farewell to the Trump aesthetic 2020-11-11T05:00:00Z In place of all this, what today’s debased conservatism now boils down to is anti-liberalism. Opinion | Goodbye Principled Conservatism 2020-10-30T04:00:00Z Fountain’s book, derived from articles commissioned by the Guardian, broods about an ideal America that Trump has defiled and debased, perhaps irreparably. Eight of the best books about Donald Trump 2020-11-01T04:00:00Z “Patterson’s actions as an attorney and as a judge tarnished and debased the judicial system,” Attorney General Steve Marshall said in a statement. Former Alabama judge pleads guilty to theft, abuse of power 2020-10-31T04:00:00Z Such a lack of moral curiosity is especially troubling in our debased times, when the cover of neutrality is daily abused by partisans and charlatans. Review: Woodward's Trump exposé 'Rage' reflects the lazy thinking that got us into this mess 2020-09-15T04:00:00Z “He has, in short, debased the office he holds and the entire nation with his endless lying.” The bully pulpit: Trump pushes Washington, but virus resists 2020-08-22T04:00:00Z But it tells you a lot about the debased state of the GOP that a Hogan victory in the Republican primaries would be a lot more surprising than a Carlson victory. Opinion | The GOP’s future looks more like Tucker Carlson than Larry Hogan 2020-07-13T04:00:00Z But now, he’s being debased the same way, the three-dimensionality of his pain flattened into a punchline. This Profile of Charlie Kaufman Has Changed 2020-07-02T04:00:00Z Authoritarian politics and authoritarian religion are just two sides of the same debased coin. Why do Muslim states stay silent over China’s abuse of the Uighurs? | Nick Cohen 2020-07-04T04:00:00Z But there is something uniquely debased about a commander in chief who receives the salutes of soldiers while his administration does nothing about credible information on a plot to kill them. Opinion | Trump’s diminished moral capacity is on full display 2020-06-29T04:00:00Z "Last century, they debased themselves before a German tyrant. This century, it's a Chinese one. When will they ever learn?" China puts pressure on EU to soften report about COVID-19 disinformation, threatening retaliation: report 2020-04-27T04:00:00Z When you grow up immersed in Black culture, your first encounters with white cultures tell you that the normal you grew up living is wrong, inferior, debased. Zora Neale Hurston’s new collection highlights her unapologetic celebration of Black culture 2020-02-27T05:00:00Z Following the lead of the political aides and allies who came before them, during the past two weeks it has been the lawyers who have debased themselves. Opinion | George Conway: Don’t let the defense fool you. This impeachment is all about corruption. 2020-01-30T05:00:00Z "Politics has been debased and diminished by these two political silos which have almost balkanised the Northern Ireland that I live in." Obituary: Seamus Mallon 2020-01-24T05:00:00Z “Their fixation on damaging the President has trivialized the momentous act of impeachment, debased the standards of impeachable conduct, and perverted the power of impeachment by turning it into a partisan, election-year political tool.” White House calls for Trump acquittal in ‘rigged’ impeachment as Senate prepares for swift trial 2020-01-20T05:00:00Z “Fool Us” is, in other words, an island of civility and generosity in our cruel, contentious and otherwise debased times. Letter of Recommendation: ‘Penn & Teller: Fool Us’ 2019-11-26T05:00:00Z In an interview, he called Mr. Trump a “grave risk to our democracy,” who is conducting an “amoral presidency” and has debased his office with “infantile” insults. Adam Schiff, a Trump Punching Bag, Takes His Case to a Bigger Ring 2019-11-03T04:00:00Z For example, see how capitalism has debased and distorted and lied about Martin Luther King Jr. and used his image and legacy to sell fast food and other consumer products. Cornel West on hope and resistance in the age of Trump: We must "find joy in the struggle" 2019-11-03T04:00:00Z That so lofty a goal might be debased by Giuliani’s machinations to influence U.S. elections disgusted some of these officials. Impeachment Goes Public 2019-11-03T04:00:00Z The Senate was correct in stopping short of removing the president from office in 1999, but Clinton’s conduct debased his office to the extent that an impeachment inquiry and a vote to impeach were warranted. Opinion | Why are Republicans who voted to impeach Clinton so unmoved by Trump’s actions? 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z “If Trump ever did uncover an instance of true treason, no one would believe him because he has so debased the meaning of that word.” As Impeachment Moves Forward, Trump’s Language Turns Darker 2019-10-01T04:00:00Z Truth and empirical reality itself have been debased, twisted, and corrupted by the Trump movement and the global New Right. Impeachment and emotional whiplash: Can Americans rise up in hope and courage? 2019-10-01T04:00:00Z What we can be sure is that McConnell is so craven, so debased he will do anything to maintain power. Opinion | Mr. President, a Few Questions 2019-09-27T04:00:00Z “We’ve got a guy in the White House who has debased the office of president,” she highlighted. Kamala Harris insists she's still a 'top tier' 2020 contender; claims Trump has 'debased' the presidency 2019-09-07T04:00:00Z The court should not permit its processes to be debased by such political grandstanding. Opinion | A brief in a gun-control case was more ‘incendiary’ than ‘amicus’ 2019-08-21T04:00:00Z Pelosi said Thursday that both President Trump and the Israeli government debased their offices when they pushed back on plans by the two freshman congresswomen to visit the Middle Eastern ally. Sen. McSally blasts Omar, Tlaib's 'dangerous' rhetoric and actions, calls on US to stand with Israel 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said that both President Trump and the Israeli government debased their offices when they pushed back on plans by two freshman congresswomen critical of Israel to visit the Mideast ally. Pelosi calls decision to ban 'Squad' members 'beneath the dignity' of Israel 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z He tweeted in May that “BBC News is so debased and biased, it should be replaced by a new independent news service”. ‘Loud, obsessive, tribal’: the radicalisation of remain 2019-08-13T04:00:00Z He has wittingly and maliciously debased democratic institutions, inflamed anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim animus, given comfort to enemies of people of color, detached the United States from its allies and wrapped tyrants in his warm embrace. Opinion | All these wannabe Democratic nominees are wasting everybody’s time 2019-06-21T04:00:00Z Under this debased standard if it is not indictable is it none of our business? Cory Booker's 2020 Ambitions could be weighed down by his rise to power in the Soprano State 2019-02-19T05:00:00Z The Democratic senators’ juvenile tactics will not stop Rao’s confirmation, but they are lowering the already debased national discourse. Opinion | In attacking Neomi Rao, Democrats are arguing against progress — in more ways than one 2019-02-05T05:00:00Z She understands what it is to be debased but can’t see Cole clearly enough to grasp that he can also be humiliated. Rage and Recovery in “Blue Ridge” 2019-01-14T05:00:00Z But there is no question his presidency has debased and demeaned us, revealing things we didn’t want to look at but probably needed to see. Another crazy Christmas with Donald Trump: But he can't wreck it, because he doesn't understand it 2018-12-22T05:00:00Z I debased my work, I accepted humiliation so I could reach my goal, but nothing worked. Opinion | I Got Rejected 101 Times 2018-12-14T05:00:00Z "The prosecution of each convicted person was corrupted in a manner which debased fundamental premises of the criminal justice system," the judgement said. Gangland lawyer named as police informant 2018-12-03T05:00:00Z Worse than being a case of the job-rich getting richer is knowing the many communities — “winners” included — that debased themselves with tax incentives only to yield this familiar ending. Overrated/Underrated: Adam Sandler's surprising stand-up in '100% Fresh' and the global sound of Maisha 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z Someone must be offended when national ideals are debased by cruelty and corruption. Opinion | Will a Republican candidate stand up against Trump in 2020? 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z The G.O.P. is now Ted Cruz writ large, a political party that has debased itself in the image of its standard-bearer. The Midterm Elections Are a Referendum on Donald Trump 2018-10-26T04:00:00Z “But back in the writer's room, we firmly decided against anything cowardly or far-fetched, anything that would make the fierce matriarch of the Conners seem pathetic or debased.” 'The Conners' showrunner talks writing off Roseanne in a way that wasn't 'cowardly' 2018-10-17T04:00:00Z We will shatter the porcelain of diplomatic composure and fan the anger of our population with debased facts until every issue you raise is about just one issue – China’s national dignity. China’s new diplomacy in Europe has a name: broken porcelain | David Bandurski 2018-10-17T04:00:00Z Yet even by that debased standard, Mr. Trump’s latest Twitter tantrum against Mr. Sessions, on Monday, set a new low, providing a kind of anti-civics lesson for the nation he’s supposed to lead. Editorial Roundup: Excerpts from recent editorials 2018-09-05T04:00:00Z Meanwhile, on economic policy, you could argue that Trump has debased libertarianism rather than disavowing it, following many prior Republicans in using the rhetoric of capitalism to champion businessmen rather than markets. Libertarians in the age of Trump 2018-07-23T04:00:00Z Meanwhile, on economic policy, you could argue that Trump has debased libertarianism rather than disavowing it, following many prior Republicans in using the rhetoric of capitalism to champion favored business interests rather than free markets. Opinion | Libertarians in the Age of Trump 2018-07-21T04:00:00Z The wonder is that we Americans continue to allow our laws to be flouted and our citizenship debased. Opinion | Citizenship shouldn’t be a birthright 2018-07-18T04:00:00Z Personally, I’ve thrown up my hands in despair at the debased state of the GOP. Opinion | I left the Republican Party. Now I want Democrats to take over. 2018-07-03T04:00:00Z But it’s also useless to slice and dice the degrees of prevarication in a way that sort of, kind of, almost shoehorns Trump into the admittedly debased tradition of democratic discourse. Is Donald Trump a liar? Maybe not — and that’s when it really gets scary 2018-06-23T04:00:00Z Despite that debased state of democracy in Wisconsin, Roberts and the court used a standing technicality to decide that these voters had not been harmed within their individual districts. After the Supreme Court’s artful dodge, expect the 2020 gerrymander to be much, much worse 2018-06-19T04:00:00Z But, until he died, he allowed us to inhabit his righteous and turgid, pure and debased universe, which he filled with the true and fake news of who we were, if only we would listen. The Aural Dissonance of Reza Abdoh 2018-06-18T04:00:00Z Here the fundamental value and meaning of human life is debased and warped; Homo sapiens becomes Homo economicus. Donald Trump’s empire of disorientation: Where the future is the past, made worse 2018-06-08T04:00:00Z The presidency, he said, has been “debased by a figure who has a seemingly bottomless appetite for destruction and division.” Trump’s war of attrition against Mueller bears fruit among Republicans 2018-05-26T04:00:00Z But under the emperor Nero, starting in 64 A.D., the proportion of silver was reduced to 80 percent and the state made a tidy profit by recycling the all-silver denarii into debased ones. An Ice Core Reveals the Economic Health of the Roman Empire 2018-05-14T04:00:00Z No matter how debased the behavior of a given individual or group, no matter how much legitimate anger that genuinely evil actions might inspire, dehumanizing others always leads us down a dangerous path. Opinion | No one is an ‘animal’ 2018-05-20T04:00:00Z The term genius has become debased through overuse today. Where Did Picasso’s Genius Come From? 2018-04-14T04:00:00Z Our politics really is debased when a former intelligence chief intimates that a President will be destroyed based on some information yet to be disclosed. The McCabe March Madness 2018-03-18T04:00:00Z Expertise, personal integrity and public service have all been debased and devalued by the culture. Analysis | The Daily 202: Trump is supercharging the celebrification of politics 2018-03-07T05:00:00Z That’s an interesting use of the word “need,” since I’m not sure that anyone actually “needs” to see a real person pushed to the most debased extremes. A new Netflix show wants to manipulate people into committing murder 2018-02-20T05:00:00Z New York-based Human Rights Watch criticized the award, saying Indonesian government debased the rule of law by awarding dela Rosa its highest honor. Indonesian police defend award to Philippine police chief 2018-02-15T05:00:00Z Eventually, our currency becomes debased, interest rates escalate, and rampant inflation ensues. Opinion | Americans will pay for deficit spending down the road 2018-02-11T05:00:00Z Never ending QE has debased the US dollar and “good paying jobs” are gone. Homeland Security Increasingly Means Putting Agents Outside the Homeland 2017-12-26T05:00:00Z Those latter three were staunch critics of Trump during the primaries, yet they've caved to this craven and debased person showing no hint of a backbone. F.B.I. Director Wants to Move Forward, but the President Is Making His Job Harder 2017-12-22T05:00:00Z I know that some of the deepest regret I have is how much I immersed myself and debased myself for romantic love. 'Crazy Ex-Girlfriend' creators weigh in on the exploration of Rebecca's mental health 2017-12-08T05:00:00Z They want power to inflict their debased views on everyone who disagrees with their warped thinking. Militants Kill 235 at Sufi Mosque in Egypt’s Deadliest Terrorist Attack 2017-11-24T05:00:00Z First and foremost, because I do not like the debased and degraded tone which President Trump has set for our Nation and the Republican Party. With Virginia, Voters Give Democrats First Big Wins of the Trump Era 2017-11-07T05:00:00Z Such spectacles debased music with Jewish commercialism, or so thought Richard Wagner. The story of Jewishness, told through fascinating characters 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z What this underlines is how debased Britain’s welfare politics have become compared with much of the rest of Europe. A basic income for everyone? Yes, Finland shows it really can work | Aditya Chakrabortty 2017-10-31T04:00:00Z Leadership does not knowingly encourage or feed ugly and debased appetites in us. Read Sen. Jeff Flake's speech announcing he will not seek reelection: 'I will not be complicit' 2017-10-24T04:00:00Z In a series of television interviews earlier in the day, Mr Corker accused the president of lying, adding that he debased the US and weakened its global standing. Republican quits with attack on Trump 2017-10-24T04:00:00Z Mr Corker accused the president of lying in a series of television interviews, adding that he debased the US and weakened its global standing. Republican senator: Trump speaks 'untruths' 2017-10-24T04:00:00Z Critics said Trump has not only coarsened and debased the nation’s dialogue, but also that he has promoted xenophobia and anti-Semitism. RTs = endorsements? Trump’s retweets of outlandish memes a signal to his base 2017-09-17T04:00:00Z With every crass utterance from the West Wing, the office long viewed as a sacred trust becomes more debased. Defining presidential deviancy down: Trump builds on Nixon and Clinton’s legacy — and multiplies it 2017-08-01T04:00:00Z Has our culture become so debased that it’s hard for people to find the kind of enduring values that could give a solid foundation to their lives? Editorials from around New England 2017-07-07T04:00:00Z It is myopic to think that Britain is alone in its debased new politics, galvanising to see the patterns in authoritarian politics everywhere. Homophobia is back – it’s no accident that nationalism is too | Zoe Williams 2017-07-02T04:00:00Z But far more often they leave their participants debased unless they’re forgotten altogether: George Foreman, still nursing the psychological wounds of Zaire, taking on five hopelessly shopworn opponents in one night in 1975. The Mayweather-McGregor farce is the event our idiocracy deserves 2017-06-15T04:00:00Z “Sensation” and its Young British Artists dominated the art conversation, enraptured the tabloids, and relegated British portraiture to the debased realm of one-note arguments and conceptual gimmicks. Lynette Yiadom-Boakye’s Imaginary Portraits 2017-06-12T04:00:00Z But most often she seems merely debased here — disheveled and mumbling and saying sorry. Amazon's 'I Love Dick' makes an uneasy transition from page to screen 2017-05-11T04:00:00Z One explanation for our debased civic discourse may be the decline of a sense of community that the old local columnists once helped provide. Jimmy Breslin and the Lost Voice of the People 2017-03-20T04:00:00Z No other sport will ever displace for me the beauty of baseball, and the game does not need to be distorted and debased to try to appease a hypothetical generation with attention deficits. Is Baseball Too Slow? Here’s How Readers Would Fix the Game, or Not 2017-03-02T05:00:00Z He wants liberals to treat all his supporters as if they are as debased as he is. Trump’s lies are not the problem. It’s the millions who swallow them who really matter | Nick Cohen 2017-02-04T05:00:00Z The lawsuit, which Ms Zervos announced at a news conference, alleges Mr Trump is a "liar and misogynist" who "debased and denigrated" her. Trump sued for defamation by former Apprentice Summer Zervos - BBC News 2017-01-17T05:00:00Z “What did Donald Trump, the liar and misogynist do, to cover up up his lies? He lied again, and debased and denigrated Ms Zervos with false statements about her.” Apprentice contestant Summer Zervos sues Donald Trump for defamation 2017-01-17T05:00:00Z In this debased, violated state, the suit is the most visceral of relics. Jackie Kennedy’s pink wool suit and the dark side of First Lady fashion 2017-01-17T05:00:00Z Yes, that remains idealistic as we live in a world where criticism is debased to stars, to a TripAdvisor mentality that requires no thought or knowledge whatsoever, the precursor to the sneering at experts mentality. I do not recognise the stereotype of John Berger as a dour Marxist – his work embodied hope 2017-01-04T05:00:00Z Douglas Murray, an associate editor at The Spectator magazine, says the word is so debased in reality it only conveys one impression. Populism: Pantomime politics or the public fighting back? - BBC News 2016-12-28T05:00:00Z The OCR’s debased definition of harassment, meanwhile, has led to absurdities such as a feminist professor being investigated for criticizing Northwestern University’s Title IX efforts in a newspaper column. Time to Reform the Kangaroo Courts on Campus 2016-12-27T05:00:00Z As Jonathan Merritt documented, Pat Robertson called Bill Clinton a “debauched, debased, and defamed” politician. Donald Trump and the Transformation of White Evangelicals 2016-11-19T05:00:00Z This was the first major vote in the era of post-truth politics: the listless remain campaign attempted to fight fantasy with facts, but quickly found that the currency of fact had been badly debased. How technology disrupted the truth | Katharine Viner 2016-07-12T04:00:00Z “Women of the Wall today offended thousands of male and female worshippers when they held a mixed prayer protest in the women’s section, and debased Torah scrolls,” said Western Wall Rabbi Shmuel Rabinovich. Despite Israeli PM's plea, liberal Jews protest at holy site 2016-11-02T04:00:00Z Allowing the traditions and honor of the party of Lincoln to be so horribly debased is definitely deplorable. Rudy Giuliani is 2016’s Mr. Deplorable 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z But instead of the military-industrial complex or “the Man,” it was a secular society viewed as debased, demon-inspired and virulently anti-Christian. Jack T. Chick, cartoonist of conspiracy-minded attacks, dies at 92 2016-10-25T04:00:00Z “I am putting each and every one of you on notice,” Mr. Christie said in a 2002 speech, taking aim at his home state’s notoriously debased political culture. For Cuomo and Christie, Parallel Paths to the Top, and Trouble When They Got There 2016-09-25T04:00:00Z “He debased French people, who are our allies in NATO,” lawmaker Jan Grabiec, the party’s spokesman, said. Polish official: French 'learned to eat with a fork from us' 2016-10-12T04:00:00Z Not merely because I belong to the same, debased trade as Gatti and do not share my friends’ enthusiasm for the novelist. Why the prissy reaction to Ferrante being unmasked? | Catherine Bennett 2016-10-08T04:00:00Z I may be a debased human being, but I miss it. Gawker’s Gone. Long Live Gawker. 2016-08-24T04:00:00Z Frankly, the anthem is debased by its overuse at for-profit sporting events. Megan Rapinoe’s Protest Leads to Division on and Off the Pitch 2016-09-19T04:00:00Z Those readers or reviewers who focus on Eileen’s unlikability, she believes, “probably felt ashamed” when reading the book, and are unable to confront their own more debased impulses. Ottessa Moshfegh interview: ‘Eileen started out as a joke – also I’m broke, also I want to be famous’ 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z One needs only look at Chris Christie who debased himself at Trump’s feet for months in the hopes of being chosen for VP only to be spurned and embarrassed when he was passed over. The 2020 race has already begun: Ted Cruz turns the RNC upside down — and starts a new race to the White House 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z The general opinion was that Christie had debased himself and had gotten nothing for it. Chris Christie: Human Tumult Machine 2016-07-20T04:00:00Z Naturally, she must therefore be debased and destroyed. MOVIE REVIEW: ‘The Neon Demon’ is a depraved exploitation film masquerading as art 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z It arrives when a nation’s civic culture has become so debased that the nation no longer has “the virtues necessary to sustain republican government.” Republicans: Save your party, don’t give to Trump 2016-06-22T04:00:00Z Rapid growth, especially in the past decade, has debased much restaurant cooking, drowning the tastes and textures of dishes like fish-fragrant eggplant in gobs of acrid chili, oil and monosodium glutamate. Sichuan cuisine: A culinary heritage in crisis 2016-06-20T04:00:00Z Faced with the cacophony of competing sound bites, it is tempting to throw one’s hands up in despair and simply bemoan the debased state of political discourse. After Orlando, a Long War 2016-06-17T04:00:00Z The currency of facts will be debased, that of stunts inflated, that of conviction sidelined. The Nigel Farage Show 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z Sweet quotes Basil Wright, a documentary film-maker of the time, calling them "a great dreary mass of tasteless ill-made films which debased the spectators if they didn't send them to sleep". Will streaming quota make for great art? - BBC News 2016-06-15T04:00:00Z African-American life is thereby — again — debased, and the nation, shamed. George Zimmerman takes a victory lap on a dead boy’s grave 2016-05-18T04:00:00Z To him, these are debased versions of the typical sign-up, sharing, shopping, checkout and download processes that are standard practice online. When Websites Won’t Take No for an Answer 2016-05-14T04:00:00Z Although the Arizona senator debased himself in 2008 when he nominated a buffoonish celebrity as his running mate, he’s still a respected figure in Washington, a man with enough cachet to resist the political winds. John McCain gives in: The senator’s slow, awkward surrender to Trump is likely the first of many on the Republican side 2016-05-09T04:00:00Z Mr. Del Toro said he believes that too often female characters are “debased” or put on a pedestal: either humiliated by their creators’ lack of ingenuity or simply he objects of admiration. Guillermo Del Toro begins Ebertfest 2016 with ‘Crimson Peak’ screening 2016-04-14T04:00:00Z Ryan told of his concern that politics has drifted away from debates over ideas and attempts to unify the country and is now debased by personal insults and toxic rhetoric. Clinton calls out Trump and Cruz for 'dangerous' national security agendas 2016-03-23T04:00:00Z In many media and coastal-elite eyes, poorer and lower-middle-class white communities are seen as debased or, at best, wrongheaded—instead of as people of a threatened and shrinking culture in search of a savior. This is why Donald Trump’s winning: The GOP thinks their base is backward — now they’re showing them who’s in charge 2016-03-13T05:00:00Z Those who could not live up to the coastal anglophone ideal were ignored or seen as debased anomalies. This is a war for America’s soul: Donald Trump reflects frustrations of an embittered white America 2016-02-27T05:00:00Z What’s vital is that the new incumbent in some way proves his greater worth for the role than his debased predecessor. Manchester United and the problem of moving on from an all-powerful leader | Jonathan Wilson 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z He said political discourse over refugees in Australia had been debased by political sloganeering and the calculated dehumanisation and demonisation of asylum seekers. Asylum policies 'brutal and shameful', authors tell Turnbull and Dutton 2016-02-05T05:00:00Z In recent decades, the evangelical community has steadily debased itself for votes, choosing political power over religious integrity. The religious right exposed: Donald Trump’s speech at Liberty University proves just how gullible evangelical voters are 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z The presidential election is still nearly a year away, which means there’s plenty more time to build on the surreal and debased politicking that marked the last six months of 2015. Irrational hopes for 2016: Some political pipe dreams for a dreadful election year 2016-01-01T05:00:00Z Our discourse is not civilized, it’s not reasonable, and it’s only gotten more debased in the 30 years I’ve been on this planet. Has politically correct culture gone too far? 2015-12-14T05:00:00Z Its government was debased, but it was Nauru’s people who suffered. This is Abyan's story, and it is Australia's story 2015-10-27T04:00:00Z No caption – it’s a commentary on our debased popular culture. New Yorker cartoons are easy to mock – but could you create one yourself? 2015-09-27T04:00:00Z They have debased the currency of governing to the point that right now experience in office produces no dividends. Scott Walker’s exit puts a focus on a fickle GOP electorate 2015-09-22T04:00:00Z Many a bitcoin die-hard will tell you that the virtual currency is not only a currency, but also one of the few available for use that can’t be debased by greedy governments. U.S. Government Is Calling Bitcoin Anything But a Currency 2015-09-18T04:00:00Z While neither man evinced Madison Grant’s racial obsessions, they shared his eagerness to champion an admirable “nature” against a debased humanity that had flourished beyond its proper limits. Environmentalism's Racist History 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z “Jew money has debased us, bought us and sold us,” wrote Thomas Watson, who used his Jeffersonian newspaper to attack Frank. A century after lynching, town still wrestles over history 2015-08-09T04:00:00Z The Republican brand has been so debased in recent years that they are losing potential voters who you might think are at the sweet spot for the party,” Amandi said. The Trump effect: immigration remarks push GOP contenders sharply right 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z This country has a repressive political environment , economic chaos, flight of population, strict exchange controls, high inflation and a seriously debased currency. IRAN, ARGENTINA, VENEZUELA - WHAT THEY HAVE IN COMMON 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z And that he did the work of critiquing and fact-checking Fox and others on the right who helped create this debased media culture? Camille Paglia takes on Jon Stewart, Trump, Sanders: “Liberals think of themselves as very open-minded, but that’s simply not true!” 2015-07-29T04:00:00Z Her team will produce a “message,” one of the most corrosive, debased words in the lexicon of contemporary politics — an alleged synonym for belief or conviction, it signifies nothing more than a branded marketing strategy. She rides by van: The Hillary Clinton launch 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z Even supporters of al-Shabaab are turning their backs on the group in the light of their debased attacks. After Garissa, Kenyans and Somalis Face Divided Future 2015-04-07T04:00:00Z With lavish celebrations of the seventieth anniversary of V-E Day just weeks away, Russia was hailed as the Continent’s protector against this new, squishy, mongrelized, morally debased version of the Second World War-era threat. A Hateful Sort of Love 2015-03-24T04:00:00Z “When hurtful stereotypes — of any group — are wielded to delegitimize others, we are all debased.” In U.C.L.A. Debate Over Jewish Student, Echoes on Campus of Old Biases 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z Not only do we privilege it, but we've developed on the one hand the most exalted conception of this form of human contact, and on the other the most debased. Does technology make people touch each other less? 2015-01-30T05:00:00Z It’s not clear whether Roberts had a debased view of the importance of the job of Solicitor General—or an outsized view of the importance of a private litigator. The Supreme Court’s Advocacy Gap 2015-01-06T05:00:00Z I’m sure more innovative types like, say, Shakespeare or Beethoven will come along at some point to create great things even in this debased new economic and technological era. 'The Newsroom,' The New Republic and the New Tech Media Owner 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z "I will not contribute neither time nor money to such a morally debased enterprise," Hill said. U. of I. rehiring of controversial prof imperils donor funds 2014-11-30T05:00:00Z “A lot of my work is reclaiming that which has been debased.” Twine, the Video-Game Technology For All 2014-11-19T05:00:00Z When the greenback is debased, money flees into hard assets, including commodities. What Washington Politicians -- and Those of Other Countries -- Can Learn from the U.S. Energy Miracle 2014-11-05T05:00:00Z By Gordon’s definition, a heavily used currency, one that is abundant in terms of “supply,” is apparently a debased currency. David Gordon Takes Aim At Steve Forbes, But Hits Ludwig von Mises 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z But on Columbus Day, it’s worth considering whether the standards of this particular history lesson have been debased by patriotism itself, and whether we’ve turned a false history into an inappropriate holiday. In 1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue ... and slaughtered the indigenous peoples he found 2014-10-13T04:00:00Z The buyer is taking a chance you are a con man with debased coins that will fool his testing equipment. We Buy Gold 2014-10-06T04:00:00Z It is well past the time that an American government enhanced that advantage rather than debased it. Three Steps to Protect US Intellectual Property 2014-09-30T04:00:00Z Certain women are permitted, and others are presumed desirable; certain women are valued and others are automatically wanton; only certain women are debased and objectified. If a black woman in Hollywood can't kiss her white husband in public, have we gotten anywhere on interracial love? 2014-09-15T04:00:00Z Today, dominated by pay-per-view, as corrupt as ever but lacking the stars to redeem it or at least distract from its ugliest sides, the sport may seem debased, even squalid. I am Ali: rolling with the punches of Muhammad Ali's life and myth 2014-09-11T04:00:00Z Her books examined not only how grand social forces limit individuals’ expectations, but also how some teachers, religious leaders and parents enforce those limits, burdening children with debased views of themselves. Lillian B. Rubin, 90, Dies; Wrote on Impact of Gender and Class Norms 2014-07-01T04:00:00Z But it’s noteworthy that even in its dumbest and most debased form, religion still finds a way to attack liberal orthodoxy at its weak point. America: Stupidly stuck between religion and science 2014-04-12T16:30:00Z Even important words with a long and positive tradition become debased: The Surprisingly High Cost Of Fictions In Today's Workplace 2013-12-16T16:29:00Z But it debased the craft skills and turned human beings with very personal ideas and emotions into mere machine feeders. Imagine a world without shops or factories 2013-10-11T00:50:46Z Purists also say the ceremony has been debased by overuse, and they lament the growing encroachment of team sponsors and paying customers on the playing field. Baseball’s First Pitch Loses Its Exclusivity 2013-05-29T01:20:00Z That’s one possible way of looking at the situation, but it is a debased one. Jane Austen, Game Theorist 2013-05-10T15:39:47Z Living in a country, using this technology—invented by the ultimate , Mark Zuckerberg—some were apparently being lured by the West’s debased popular culture. http://www.jihad.com 2013-05-06T08:45:00Z Even more worrying, the state-led, investment-obsessed system spawns too much debt and too many factories, leading to wasted resources and a debased financial sector. The Real Reason To Worry About China 2013-04-29T02:46:04Z I should think some Flat purists are probably frothing at the mouth about such a well-bred beast being debased at this level. Talking Horses: The best bets and latest racing news 2013-02-20T11:45:19Z For centuries, Richard III has skulked in the shadows of the English imagination, a debased villain guilty of the worst crimes. Richard III's Bones: Should One of History's Losers Be Redeemed? 2013-02-05T03:35:25Z All of this means that as easy as they are to acquire, Likes are a debased currency. Facebook Graph Search Runs On Likes That Advertisers Have Already Paid For 2013-01-21T14:41:21Z "Arrant puns" were the subject of attacks by the likes of Joseph Addison, 18th Century London's pre-eminent literary tastemaker. as debased witticisms and exulted that they had been "banished out of the learned world". The pun conundrum 2013-01-16T00:55:26Z Pelé's pursuit of the line that they are equals not merely confirms his debased status as a pundit, but is actually counter-productive, heaping pressure on Neymar and deflecting attention from far more significant issues. Olympics exposed flaw at the heart of Brazilian football 2012-08-14T09:32:50Z Because since arriving in 1996, Diamond has debased what was a venerable, Quaker-founded high-street institution into something else entirely: a financially precarious outfit with a reputation for dodging taxes and fixing interest rates. The wrecking of Barclays is one of organised looting by those at the very top 2012-07-09T19:00:06Z To ennoble, the mind must be noble; if debased, it can only debase. Principles of Decorative Design Fourth Edition 2012-05-22T15:16:52.423Z Games of chance, divining by arrows, drunkenness and sorcery debased the brains of these men, all otherwise remarkably gifted. The Life of Mohammad The Prophet of Allah 2012-04-25T02:01:04.030Z Thus Queensland was saved from the double peril of paralysed credit and a debased paper currency. Our First Half-Century: A Review of Queensland Progress Based Upon Official Information 2012-04-22T02:00:09.320Z The dropping of one drop can absorb a soul: its alchemy traps a man: so, we, reduced, debased, encompassed, are carried to sea, to finality, ourselves made useless, noiseless, like a million others. Voices from the Past 2012-04-19T02:00:30.787Z In modern armory the pendants are all but invariably reduced to three, which, in debased examples, are given a dovetailed form while the ends of the fillet are cut off. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 3 "Helmont, Jean" to "Hernosand" 2012-04-14T02:00:23.707Z Falsity and the untrue appear in natural juxtaposition with the debased and the vulgar. Principles of Decorative Design Fourth Edition 2012-05-22T15:16:52.423Z As for Abu Sufyan and his wife, Hind, in despair at the death of their son, Hanzalah, and debased by the defeat, they showed themselves conspicuously as being athirst for vengeance. The Life of Mohammad The Prophet of Allah 2012-04-25T02:01:04.030Z With despised and rejected, the sick, the forsworn, Shalt thou walk, Zedekiah, debased and forlorn, Consorting with lepers, with halt and with lame, Among outcasts the poorest. Jeremiah A Drama in Nine Scenes 2012-04-10T02:00:19.943Z But when this regard is debased by a desire to please and ingratiate oneself, men are precipitated into the unseemly expressions of a spurious manhood. The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Genesis 2012-04-08T02:00:21.793Z A Neapolitan, strayed somehow as far north as Florence, she was a specimen of the classical type—a little debased. Mortal Coils 2012-04-06T02:00:30.740Z The old fellow looked cunning and greedy, but not debased. Wyndham's Pal 2012-04-04T02:00:54.360Z Satan in the first carving has rather a benevolent human face, in the second a debased beast face, unknown to natural history. The Grotesque in Church Art 2012-03-27T02:00:18.973Z For the same reason, to pay for wars, the currency was debased under Philip III; and the Crown held monopolies on spirits, tobacco, pottery, glass, cloth, and other necessities, a system always bad for commerce. Heroic Spain 2012-03-26T02:00:38.797Z Alloyed with inferior metal; debased; as, base coin; base bullion. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) 2012-03-24T02:00:19.387Z “Know you not,” cries the apostle to the once debased Corinthians, “that you are God’s temple, and that the Spirit of God dwells in you?” The Expositor's Bible: Ephesians 2012-03-20T02:00:11.133Z The moral, social, and political condition of China was almost hopelessly wretched and debased. Ti-Ping Tien-Kwoh The History of the Ti-Ping Revolution (Volume I) 2012-03-19T02:00:25.027Z Leadership has become so debased as to have become budget management. SchoolBook: Poll Finds Most City Voters Support Release of Teacher Ratings 2012-03-14T03:54:54Z Until this debased cosa de Espa�a is done away with it will remain a stumbling block to even the most sympathetic of travelers. Heroic Spain 2012-03-26T02:00:38.797Z Mozart's Cantabile, as contrasted with the strict school, and Pleyel's divertimento style, had diluted and debased it; and to Beethoven, the hero, do we owe its regeneration now and for ever. Life of Beethoven 2012-03-12T03:00:21.693Z They must have felt the utmost astonishment and horror when they beheld the sacred stream changed and polluted, and the divinity which they worshipped so shamefully soiled and debased. Curiosities of Medical Experience 2012-03-09T03:00:20.410Z In other words, while you can use a debased currency for the payment of debts, if a legislative decree requires that you shall accept it, you can not use it for any other purpose. Money: Speech of Hon. John P. Jones, of Nevada, On the Free Coinage of Silver; in the United States Senate, May 12 and 13, 1890 2012-02-29T03:00:21.727Z But we are here confronted with the contention that the text of the Cursives is of a debased character. The Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels 2012-02-24T03:00:31.020Z It is asserted that no spot of American soil contained so debased a community as this. Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast 2012-02-22T03:00:25.113Z How else could it be that even worldlings, not wholly debased, will contemplate the man of simple and disinterested goodness with contradictory feelings of pity and respect. Transcendentalism in New England A History 2012-02-18T03:00:16.210Z It is curious that the influence of custom makes itself felt slowly but surely among the most debased of the villains. Villainage in England Essays in English Mediaeval History 2012-02-15T03:00:35.553Z If the members of the inferior priesthood were debased and wicked, who made them so? My Lords of Strogue, Vol. II (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union 2012-02-15T03:00:26.817Z They gave impressive details of the nauseous place, of the rank food, the vermin, the dark cells, and the debased associations. Comrade Yetta 2012-02-15T03:00:24.213Z Thou art totally debased by sin, and thy iniquities abound. The Iron Furnace Slavery and Secession 2012-02-14T03:00:24.963Z Poor soul, had she not been herself a concubine, and debased by pernicious surroundings? The Curse of Koshiu A Chronicle of Old Japan 2012-02-14T03:00:23.467Z It was considered as a note of servile descent, and the man free by blood was supposed to be always exempted from it, however debased his position in every other respect. Villainage in England Essays in English Mediaeval History 2012-02-15T03:00:35.553Z There was the fresher, purer air of Christianity, however debased and corrupted. Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume I (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs 2012-02-12T03:00:15.857Z Man had not fallen but he had risen from such debased beginnings that he had not got far. Behind the Mirrors The Psychology of Disintegration at Washington 2012-02-11T03:03:55.693Z I felt like a guilty and condemned creature, debased in my own eyes, and humbled before the woman I adored. The Monctons A Novel: Volume 2 (of 2) 2012-02-11T03:03:50.943Z That type, maintained in the Restoration period, though with modifications and innovations, had now become conventionalized, debased, sterile. Tragedy 2012-01-31T03:00:19.343Z Rococo, rō-kō′kō, n. a debased style of architecture and decoration in the 18th century, marked by endless multiplication of ornamental details. Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) 2012-01-30T03:00:13.887Z Am I to hear,' he asked with honest indignation, 'that one of you has debased himself to an apology?' Parson Kelly 2012-01-28T03:00:30.303Z Save for its size, the house made no brave show, being merely one of many hundreds of mansions built in the seventeenth century, of a debased classic type. The Brighton Road The Classic Highway to the South 2012-01-24T03:00:26.933Z These relics were thrown into the ditch—the corpses—not the articles of gold, however debased by their juxtaposition. Dealings with the Dead, Volume I (of 2) 2012-01-17T03:00:17.977Z These plays are interesting as an illustration of the survival on the stage of a dramatic species in a debased form. Tragedy 2012-01-31T03:00:19.343Z I would not so have debased and degraded myself before any man to save my own life—what is my life worth me, after all?—but to save Christina, to save Christina, to save Christina! Strange Stories 2012-01-16T03:00:05.067Z The latter became more debased, coarser, and more servile. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z We find this institution in the course of time and in various countries debased by polygamy, and corrupted by concubinage. Church and State as Seen in the Formation of Christendom 2012-01-11T03:00:30.173Z Persons dwelling in regions which slavery has not debased can hardly imagine the malice and ferocity manifested by the rebel vixens of the slave states. Nurse and Spy in the Union Army The Adventures and Experiences of a Woman in Hospitals, Camps, and Battle-Fields 2012-01-07T03:00:15.907Z The higher ideas of the Creator were held only by a few, the many adopted a lower and more debased view. Ancient Pagan and Modern Christian Symbolism With an Essay on Baal Worship, On The Assyrian Sacred "Grove," And Other 2012-01-05T03:00:28.663Z A word, I thought further, debased by moralists from its primary ecstatic content. San Crist?bal de la Habana 2012-01-01T03:00:08.773Z “If investors continue to gravitate toward it as a currency in lieu of other fiat currencies that are in the process of being debased by many central governments around the world.” Stocks Rally on Economic Data as Euro Erases Drop Versus Dollar 2011-12-30T07:17:37Z Kingdoms debased, and thrones that starward yearn, All are but ghouls that batten on the past. The Star-Treader and other poems 2011-12-27T03:00:09.977Z If a currency is silver, and part of it is debased and part left good there is bimetallic action, and the good disappears. The History of Currency, 1252 to 1896 2011-12-24T03:07:52.717Z When addressed kindly at her door, and told of "goodness and mercy," she was subdued at once; and communicated the secret of her debased condition. The Man with the Book or, The Bible Among the People. 2011-12-19T03:00:47.530Z Personally, since I had no hopes to save or plans to protect, I hadn't the desire, like Sampson, to pull down the pillars of the roof on their debased heads. San Crist?bal de la Habana 2012-01-01T03:00:08.773Z The church of granite is richly sculptured throughout; but in a debased Perpendicular style. Cornwall 2011-12-05T03:00:38.530Z The most perfect race of animals may be debased by improper mixture, or injured by improper treatment. A Treatise on Sheep: The Best Means for their Improvement, General Management, and the Treatment of their Diseases. 2011-12-04T03:00:03.890Z Let its working be ennobled, and not debased, by the material afforded to it. Household Education 2011-12-02T03:00:25.437Z That visit was not lost, as the woman, who kept a beer-shop in the "Dials," was recovered from her debased condition, and with her husband became morally reformed. The Man with the Book or, The Bible Among the People. 2011-12-19T03:00:47.530Z Mycenaean art continues, here and there, in a debased form down to the 9th century, a date to which we can trace back the beginnings of the later Greek art. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 4 "Grasshopper" to "Greek Language" 2011-11-28T03:00:19.517Z By this change the whole moral attitude of the family became debased. The Life of Thomas Wanless, Peasant 2011-11-27T03:00:11.777Z But the coinage of love about the Court had grown as debased as did the paper money of the Republic later on. Maid of the Mist 2011-11-21T03:00:11.937Z Even the pagan is not destitute of a religion of some sort, however debased it may be. Nature and Culture 2011-11-17T03:00:34.107Z At many of the doors women of debased countenances were squatted, smoking short pipes. The Man with the Book or, The Bible Among the People. 2011-12-19T03:00:47.530Z What now can compensate me for the humiliation of being thought by him so shameless and debased? An Oregon Girl A Tale of American Life in the New West 2011-11-17T03:00:31.330Z They see the rich exalted, and the poor debased; they find a house of pride, instead of a house of prayer. Stones of the Temple Lessons from the Fabric and Furniture of the Church 2011-11-11T03:00:36.693Z She is more callous, ruthless, wanton and debased. Feminism and Sex-Extinction 2011-11-11T03:00:29.100Z Oxford sank into an organ of the High Church and Tory party, and debased herself by servile manifestos in favour of government by prerogative. Oxford and Her Colleges 2011-11-02T02:00:09.560Z Whole families inhabit the small cabins, and they have been described in the British Parliament as the most ignorant and debased of the people. The Man with the Book or, The Bible Among the People. 2011-12-19T03:00:47.530Z This was not an ignorant, debased, corrupt, unrighteous people; but it was even better in everything that makes a people great and good than the former generation which had given the country Washington and Jefferson. The Brothers' War 2011-11-01T02:00:24.007Z But this was made at a time when sepulchral monuments were frequently of a very debased character. Stones of the Temple Lessons from the Fabric and Furniture of the Church 2011-11-11T03:00:36.693Z If the women are educated, the men cannot remain ignorant; if the women are enlightened in religion, the men cannot remain debased and degraded Christians. Incidents of Travel in Greece, Turkey, Russia, and Poland, Vol. I (of 2) 2011-11-01T02:00:22.197Z He harkened to the Arab in him and made a bacchanal of color; he remembered his one-time poverty and debased the hauteur of gold to the humility of wood and clay and stone. Saul of Tarsus A Tale of the Early Christians 2011-10-28T02:00:22.437Z Their object was to see the stuffed skin of the monster, and they, for so respectable a house, formed a ragged, dirty, and debased company. The Man with the Book or, The Bible Among the People. 2011-12-19T03:00:47.530Z The importation of ignorant debased foreigners to do the work that the American born not only won't do himself, but won't, in his haste to get rich, allow to remain undone. The Open Question a tale of two temperaments 2011-10-25T02:00:22.173Z It has debased their natural sentiments, as well as it has depressed and perverted their natural talents and virtues. Martyria or Andersonville Prison 2011-10-22T02:00:28.563Z It was a wooden house, perhaps originally a box; of rather debased architecture, it must be conceded. Notwithstanding 2011-10-19T02:00:22.340Z The charm of riches is debased because of its great prevalence, since every one hath his honor to sell, and honor commands the highest price. Saul of Tarsus A Tale of the Early Christians 2011-10-28T02:00:22.437Z Its religion is a debased lamaism and idolatry, which replace the high moral teaching of Buddha. Life in an Indian Outpost 2011-10-19T02:00:19.943Z As for the women, the power of human endurance was in them not glorified, as the foolish had thought, but debased, brutalized, a thing for scorn and pointing. The Open Question a tale of two temperaments 2011-10-25T02:00:22.173Z Nature has planted certain instincts in the bosoms of all the different races of the globe alike; and these become developed according to cultivation, or debased according to degrading influences. Martyria or Andersonville Prison 2011-10-22T02:00:28.563Z A debased campaign will only harm France and further imperil the global economy. France’s Socialists Get Real on Europe’s Economic Crisis: View 2011-10-19T00:23:01Z Several prominent Republicans attacked the Fed last November for its $600 billion bond-buying program, known as quantitative easing, which they said risked inflation and debased the U.S. dollar. Fed audit due but impact likely to be muffled 2011-10-16T17:14:57Z We have stifled our language, we have debased it, we have been afraid of it. Atlantic Classics 2011-10-16T02:00:18.497Z A large octagon-shaped lamp of debased Moorish design hung in the hall, and the light came through the eight panes of parti-colored glass with a cheerful, even festive, effect. The Open Question a tale of two temperaments 2011-10-25T02:00:22.173Z And never has it reappeared, except among those nations who have become debased from avarice, or depraved by ambition. Martyria or Andersonville Prison 2011-10-22T02:00:28.563Z It is useless to argue with them, simply because their minds are completely saturated with deep-rooted prejudice, and narrow, debased, selfish views. The Hindoos as they Are A Description of the Manners, Customs and the Inner Life of Hindoo Society in Bengal 2011-10-13T02:00:35.977Z The portion of this which is in the nave is debased Renaissance, but that in the aisles is earlier and much better. Cathedral Cities of Italy 2011-10-12T02:00:42.597Z Long oppression had not, on the whole, either blunted their intellects or debased their morals. Creed And Deed A Series of Discourses 2011-10-12T02:00:40.147Z It is by distortedly exalting some men, that others are distortedly debased. 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 The good has been exalted; the bad has been debased. Vondel's Lucifer 2011-10-09T02:00:28.557Z It is generally supposed that the Hebrew women were debased to the level of slaves. The Jew 2011-10-06T02:00:34.840Z It was his duty to superintend the recoining of the money of England, which had been debased by dishonest officials at the mint. The Story of Great Inventions 2011-10-05T02:00:16.353Z Yet his heart of hearts sank within him, for it was still not utterly debased, and his compact with this ruffian was a heaviness to him. Denis Dent A Novel 2011-10-04T02:00:16.973Z He had at his command some of the most desperate and inhuman characters by which society was ever debased. Secret History of the Court of England, from the Accession of George the Third to the Death of George the Fourth, Volume I (of 2) Including, Among Other Important Matters, Full Particulars of the Mysterious Death of the Princess Charlotte 2011-10-01T02:00:31.450Z Lucifer: The majesty Of God and of the Godhead is debased, If with the blood of man his nature ever Unites, combines, or otherwise is bound. Vondel's Lucifer 2011-10-09T02:00:28.557Z However much debased he may be, a man exacts instinctively respect for his character as a man. The House of the Dead or Prison Life in Siberia with an introduction by Julius Bramont 2011-09-27T02:00:18.213Z "That may be, but in such case they are the full brethren of all those who purposely and of old have debased the community." Whirlpools A Novel of Modern Poland 2011-09-16T02:00:19.893Z If souls were debased under Louis, he must be held in large part responsible. Louis XIV and La Grande Mademoiselle 1652-1693 2011-09-14T02:00:48.383Z Even debased natures will respond to such appeal; and if they see that good is expected from them, that will go far to evoke it. The Expositor's Bible: Colossians and Philemon 2011-09-09T02:01:07.157Z That class of subjects constituted the staple of such work—generally rude and artistically debased—as continued to be cultivated under the Byzantine empire down to nearly the epoch of the Renaissance. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 5 "Gassendi, Pierre" to "Geocentric" 2011-09-02T02:00:20.450Z This debased use of the word is not an Americanism, nor is it modern. Stage-coach and Tavern Days 2011-08-31T02:01:27.587Z To-day the aspect of this ch�teau is no less formidable than of yore, though it has been debased and the moat has disappeared to make room for a roadway and the railroad. Castles and Chateaux of Old Touraine and the Loire Country 2011-08-27T02:00:22.057Z It developed into a civilization from which, at a later period, a benighted and debased Christianity relighted its torch. Telepathy and the Subliminal Self 2011-08-26T02:00:28.567Z Fear for their own lives and property had debased people to such a degree that they were affable to the invaders, and hurried to keep up their good humor. The Deluge, Vol. I. (of 2) An Historical Novel of Poland, Sweden, and Russia. 2011-08-26T02:00:24.433Z You were admitted into what, however wretched and debased it may seem to you, was our home, and all we had to offer you was at your service. Lost Sir Massingberd, v. 1/2 A Romance of Real Life 2011-08-25T02:00:34.720Z However, if it were so plentiful that we could all live in it, it would be so common that its beautiful lustre would probably be debased by ordinary paint. Colorado?The Bright Romance of American History 2011-08-25T02:00:28.183Z The architecture is a peculiar and debased imitation of classic style, attributed by architects to the 2nd century A.D. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 4 "G" to "Gaskell, Elizabeth" 2011-08-24T02:00:20.690Z So the IPL has not only downgraded the performances of India's Test players, it has also debased the integrity of the five-day game. Five things we learned from England's 4-0 series win over India 2011-08-22T19:56:39Z We must remember that it leaves untouched the question, what restrictions may be necessary for men who have depraved and debased their own appetites, until innocent indulgence does reach the heart and pervert it. The Gospel According to St. Mark 2011-08-20T02:00:14.427Z No matter how sorry, how debased, how failed, how banal our own lives may be, at least there are not as sorry, debased, failed and banal as this. Gavin Henson is more at home in The Bachelor than on the rugby field 2011-08-19T13:26:00Z Then there was the poor old greenhouse, sagging in every slender timber, broken as to every other cobwebbed pane, empty and debased within; they could not bring themselves to enter here. The Thousandth Woman 2011-08-15T02:00:25.383Z Hebrew inscriptions also occur, and the carved work of the cornices and capitals is rich though debased. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 4 "G" to "Gaskell, Elizabeth" 2011-08-24T02:00:20.690Z With infinite art, and, if the term is not debased by its application, with no little ability, she accomplished her wishes, principally through the agency of the ambitious and the self-interested, among Mary’s ministers. Life of Mary Queen of Scots, Volume I (of 2) 2011-08-14T02:00:25.307Z If we are only debased duplicates of the Poor Islanders, then our experiment here is a failure, and our continued existence is not worth while. Americanisms and Briticisms with other essays on other isms 2011-08-12T02:00:23.033Z The consequence of this policy was, that the bishops were worldly and greedy men, and were hated by the natives, the clergy were ignorant and debased, and the people resisted the claims of the Church. The English Church in the Middle Ages 2011-08-01T02:00:14.773Z His ambition sated, he was anxious now to satisfy that other craving of his debased soul, the love of riches. For the Right 2011-08-01T02:00:10.250Z The native, or Creole population, are, for the most part, shamefully ignorant and debased, and, with few exceptions, destitute of moral principle. Rambles by Land and Water or Notes of Travel in Cuba and Mexico 2011-07-29T02:00:23.127Z Eldest of creatures, the progenitor of all below him, personally one and imperishable in essence, if debased forms appear in nature, these are consequent on man's degeneracy prior to their genesis. Tablets 2011-07-25T02:00:17.487Z The Romanesco spoken in Rome by the people is a debased Italian, not a real dialect. Rome 2011-07-24T02:00:10.227Z In plots of so coarse a character there is neither beauty nor poetry, and the vogue of music-dramas having subjects so debased is likely to be fleeting. A Book About the Theater 2011-07-21T02:00:23.843Z I should have been as little inclined to aid in reforming a debased man as a base woman, but at that time the prisoners were principally political criminals. A Twofold Life 2011-07-21T02:00:21.433Z It is the demand of the household that determines whether the labour of this country shall be employed on debased articles of sham luxury or on well made and artistic goods. Household Administration Its Place in the Higher Education of Women 2011-07-20T02:00:13.547Z Like morality, it is something possessed long before we are aware of it, and it becomes perfect or debased with our growth. The Teacher Essays and Addresses on Education 2011-07-19T02:00:17.220Z Little have you considered that his acts were due to ignorance, resentment for what he fancied were wrongs, and to having been reared in a mutilated and debased form of Christianity. A Book of Ghosts 2011-07-08T02:00:19.203Z I will not foully and basely sell them my soul and my will's freedom, to breathe the air in a larger prison, like a debased, mean-spirited slave. The Childhood of King Erik Menved An Historical Romance 2011-07-07T02:00:35.757Z Behold how that life spoke for itself: how his books were covered with dust; how the fine, manly rigor of the room had been debased by contact with the habits of a luxurious dependent woman! The Cup of Trembling and Other Stories 2011-07-07T02:00:29.180Z I will not think one I have esteemed honorable to a proverb, so debased. The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 3, October, 1851 2011-07-02T02:00:11.323Z O woman of a light mind and a debased appetite," said Abdulla, "thy wits have gone astray, and thou babblest like one asleep, confounding the things that are not with the things that are. All Men are Ghosts 2011-06-28T02:00:12.497Z When a soldier has been debased by stripes he cares little for his own reputation or for the honor of his country. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, vol 1-98, 1850-1899 None 2011-06-27T02:01:02.870Z It was the culminating evil of a manhood debased by a long period of loose, vicious living. The Trail of the Axe A Story of Red Sand Valley 2011-06-27T02:00:56.823Z Even debased and decaying Hellenism could produce poetry too good for the ablest disciples to rival, too subtle for any other tongue to express. Problems in Greek history 2011-06-09T02:00:18.427Z The skin would become black and fetid; the hair woolly, the nose flat, the forehead low and debased. In Both Worlds 2011-06-08T02:00:17.360Z Most of these monastic writers composed in a debased Latinity of their own, bald and barbarous, but which had grown up with the age; their diction bears a rude sort of simplicity. Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature 2011-06-03T02:00:19.227Z But, that manhood is debased and degraded under such adverse conditions, does not make man cease to be man. The Plurality of Worlds 2011-06-01T02:00:23.787Z He only saw with a brain debased to the level of the animal. The Trail of the Axe A Story of Red Sand Valley 2011-06-27T02:00:56.823Z Poetry is a heavenly gift, and is to be contemned only when abused and debased. A History of Literary Criticism in the Renaissance With special reference to the influence of Italy in the formation and development of modern classicism 2011-05-30T02:00:13.147Z "Silas, you greatest of scoundrels," he said, "you thoroughly debased villain, loafer, and liar, I love you." The Mystery of the Locks 2011-05-29T02:00:08.800Z He waited, tremulous with eagerness; for he loved his art, although he debased it. The Shooting of Dan McGrew, A Novel Based on the Famous Poem of Robert Service 2011-05-28T02:00:24.557Z Yet the people of Calabria are rather to be charged with a confusion of moral sense than with a completely debased morality. Essays in the Study of Folk-Songs (1886) 2011-05-28T02:00:21.687Z Our popular taste by the tyros debased Paints each barnyard a grove of Diana! Hoosier Lyrics 2011-05-20T02:00:38.353Z Thus was the Lady Clare debased To sack cloth and around her waist A rope the jeweled belt replaced. Songs and Satires 2011-05-20T02:00:37.050Z There are large Armenian and Jewish colonies, that of the Jews, of course, being the most squalid, unhealthy and debased. Cities of the Dawn 2011-05-13T02:00:10.047Z Now, by any body of men not utterly debased by the influences of slavery, this language would have been construed into an invitation to stay at home. The Impending Crisis of the South How to Meet It 2011-05-10T02:00:59.100Z The populace, fed for ages on public doles and the terrible gaiety of gladiatorial shows had become thoroughly debased, and unable to work out their own bettering. Heroines That Every Child Should Know Tales for Young People of the World's Heroines of All Ages 2011-05-04T02:00:19.257Z Looking out, we saw in a window, not a pistol-shot off, three debased women, sitting in the broad daylight, absolutely nude, as far as we could see of them. Notes on Old Edinburgh 2011-05-03T02:00:17.180Z For the ornament of a person that is advanced to an eminent post must be answerable to its greatness, and not debased to the inclination of his former meanness. The History of Don Quixote de la Mancha 2011-05-01T02:00:10.977Z A more debased population than the peoples thus struggling for supremacy could scarcely be conceived. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 6 "Foraminifera" to "Fox, Edward" 2011-04-22T02:00:08.637Z If they can, then indeed has slavery debased them to a lower deep than we care to contemplate. The Impending Crisis of the South How to Meet It 2011-05-10T02:00:59.100Z The demons are perhaps even more awful than Orcagna's; and, in some of the expressions of debased humanity in its utmost despair, the English painter is at least equalled. The Seven Lamps of Architecture 2011-04-20T02:00:20.760Z But, be assured, my dear, there can be no true generosity without it; and that the most enlarged and liberal mind will find itself not debased but ennobled by it. Letters on the Improvement of the Mind, Addressed to a Lady 2011-04-19T02:00:19.607Z It would seem as though no event had ever destroyed so much of the precious heritage of mankind, confused so many of the clearest intellects or so thoroughly debased what is highest. Reflections on War and Death 2011-04-17T02:00:03.777Z I am well aware that my crew is composed of the lowest and most debased part of society, and often feel ashamed of the concessions I am obliged to make them. Tales from Blackwood Volume 9 2011-04-15T02:00:18.057Z The epithet Jacobean has sometimes been given to the very latest stage of the Elizabethan, differing from the Elizabethan proper in showing a greater admixture of debased Italian forms. The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 2: Ebert to Estremadura 2011-04-14T02:00:56.200Z They are noticed by Mr. Whewell as forming the figure of the fleur-de-lis, always a mark, when in tracery bars, of the most debased flamboyant. The Seven Lamps of Architecture 2011-04-20T02:00:20.760Z But the word "custodian" is being debased and its principles need to be reclaimed. Stan Kroenke is a custodian of Arsenal with a different view of values 2011-04-12T06:59:01Z But the angelic nature, once debased, Can never more to purity return: It sinned with science and corrupted taste: Whence in despair incurable we burn. Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) 2011-04-09T02:00:14.990Z The most cherished institutions were debased to their purposes. When the Ku Klux Rode 2011-04-06T02:00:03.767Z And yet this man, so debased and degraded, had been once a scholar of the University, and carried off its prizes from men whose names stood high among the great and valued of the land. The Knight Of Gwynne, Vol. I (of II) 2011-04-04T02:00:09.197Z Not so with the evils of a debased coin, a depreciated paper currency, or a depressed and falling public credit. The American Quarterly Review No. XVIII, June 1831 (Vol 9) 2011-04-02T02:00:12.460Z But it’s not because they are debased gore junkies. The Kill Team Pics: 'Trophy Shots' Are Nothing New 2011-04-01T17:04:47Z Where Wit will run continually, the Spring is apt to fail; so that it groweth vulgar, and the more it is practiced, the more it is debased. A Character of King Charles the Second 2011-03-31T02:00:18.840Z This debased Latin formed the solid foundation of the literary language of France of to-day. France 2011-03-27T02:00:11.847Z I say this, and I repeat it here to-night, I do not want them to come back to this Union a degraded and debased people. The Struggle between President Johnson and Congress over Reconstruction 2011-03-26T02:00:12.183Z The value system is debased and morality is misplaced. Stealing babies 2011-03-15T12:10:58Z I have found wrong so exalted, and right so debased—I have seen and known of so much misery, that the faith in good has shivered within me. Cannibals all! or, Slaves without masters 2011-03-06T03:00:21.020Z In the literature of the classical ages, we were debased into mere servants of pleasure, alternately the objects of loose incense or coarse invective. The Romance of Biography (Vol 2 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. 2011-03-01T03:00:48.107Z If the public taste in any direction, in politics, in letters, or any of the other Arts grows debased, and current critical opinion follows the debasement, Literature can only stand apart, or loftily reprehend them. The Bridling of Pegasus Prose Papers on Poetry 2011-02-26T03:00:51.130Z And as the civil part is intentionally debased by the choice of a trifling action; so should the metaphysical by the application of some very extravagant system. Mysteries of the Rosie Cross Or, the History of that Curious Sect of the Middle Ages, Known as the Rosicrucians; with Examples of their Pretensions and Claims as Set Forth in the Writings of Their Leaders and Disciples 2011-02-23T03:00:32.190Z I felt sure he must be a victim of some political cabal, and not a criminal; for not a trace of crime or remorse debased that calm brow, and those clear, honest eyes. The Ravens and the Angels With Other Stories and Parables 2011-02-23T03:00:29.860Z You are quite shocked to see the nobility thus debased, and struggle with them to relieve them of their burden. The Thistle and the Cedar of Lebanon 2011-02-20T03:00:13.767Z There's nothing like seeing the private tendernesses of fellow human beings wrenched out of context and being forced to turn a profit in shoddy, debased and Belgian-fondant-selling ways. These cuts don't go far enough ? it's time we taxed Colin Firth's Bafta 2011-02-20T00:05:26Z But I should have felt debased if I had excited one feeling of jealousy in a husband's heart, and my manner was so cold to De Walden that he complained of it to my mother. A Wife's Duty A Tale 2011-02-17T03:00:19.313Z Much of the old poetry should be discouraged for it is debased and undemocratic. The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z The touch of holy hands is on us, and shall we be debased to secular uses? The Ravens and the Angels With Other Stories and Parables 2011-02-23T03:00:29.860Z As a soldier and leader he was the bravest of the brave, skillful and high-souled; but in his social relations he was a moral coward, deceptive, mean-spirited, and debased. Harper's New Monthly Magazine No. XVI.?September, 1851?Vol. III. 2011-02-15T03:00:16.383Z But there are millions of other Italians, both male and female, who believe the media mogul's personal life has debased women, making Italy a laughing stock, and that he should now stand aside. Women in anti-Berlusconi rallies 2011-02-13T12:56:05Z Here are to be seen no debased copies of Greek or Roman orders; which is something to be thankful for. The Cathedrals of Southern France 2011-02-10T03:00:54.597Z The most brutal and debased human being in the world still admires manly courage and magnanimity. The Fatal Cord And The Falcon Rover 2011-02-09T03:00:44.167Z "What of the slaying of that debased killer of my cow, O sahib?" he asked. The Three Sapphires 2011-02-07T03:00:24.770Z It can scarcely be doubted that their use arose from the desire of defaulting monarchs to ease their indebtedness by forcing upon creditors a debased coinage. Readings in Money and Banking Selected and Adapted 2011-02-01T03:00:14.553Z Devoted to the offices of religion, they proved the sincerity of their faith by their eleemosynary services to sick and dying men and women in prison and to debased mariners in port. The Century of Columbus 2011-01-29T03:00:17.380Z But one day a monk, a demon, Fra Girard, took possession of the mind of unhappy Herv�, dominated it, led it astray, corrupted it, and debased it forever! The Pocket Bible or Christian the Printer A Tale of the Sixteenth Century 2011-01-27T03:00:40.940Z And the Fed—America's guardian against a debased currency—felt little pressure to make major shifts in monetary policy with inflation quiescent. In Case of Tech Bubble, Do Not Break Glass 2011-01-24T02:36:00Z "Excuse me, masters, I am upset by that debased tiger." The Three Sapphires 2011-02-07T03:00:24.770Z I stole money to possess it myself,... and the deed has so degraded me, and debased me, that I now have no more courage left nor love.... Abb? Aubain and Mosaics 2011-01-21T03:00:12.617Z Whenever musical taste has been debased and men have gone seeking after novelty and bizarre effects and over-decoration, Palestrina has been neglected. The Century of Columbus 2011-01-29T03:00:17.380Z When ownership is reduced to a few seconds and is dependent on algorithms, all notion of investor stewardship and active engagement in long-term value creation is debased beyond recognition. Letters: Letters: Fleeting Ownership 2011-01-15T20:01:19Z But Tieck had no use for those of his imitators who caught only the extravagance of his figures and debased his Titanic creations into bizarre contortions by over-emfasis on mere muscle. Tieck's Essay on the Boydell Shakspere Gallery 2011-01-14T03:00:49.540Z By a variety of devices the parliament of English Protestants was debased to a corrupt and ignoble servitude. Irish Nationality 2011-01-11T03:00:30.560Z He first introduces the two patented theatres, Drury Lane and Covent Garden, as rivals only in that debased dramatic form the pantomime. The Scribleriad and The Difference Between Verbal and Practical Virtue 2011-01-05T03:00:54.800Z This transformation of German society seemed further to entangle the political threads which had already debased the quality of Napoleon's strategy. The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. IV. (of IV.) 2011-01-05T03:00:52.520Z She did not ask herself whether she was lifted beyond him, or whether he was debased and weakened, or if he really called with the old intensity. She Buildeth Her House 2011-01-04T03:01:05.167Z Tortured, debased, undone in her own eyes, she left the hall at the side of her yawning husband. The Song of Songs 2011-01-01T03:00:25.907Z If the name of God alone is to be hallowed, then thy name must be debased and thy haughtiness be pulled down. True Christianity 2010-12-25T03:00:12.817Z In the very next paragraph this writer tells us certain things about Red Eagle which forbid us to believe that he was a drunkard, a debased creature, a glutton, or a brute. Red Eagle and the Wars With the Creek Indians of Alabama. 2010-12-20T17:12:28.183Z The explorer had seen Niger savages and Fuegians, but neither had the debased, abject look of these men. Adventures Among the Red Indians Romantic Incidents and Perils Amongst the Indians of North and South America 2010-12-20T17:12:20.420Z Once I played a freak part—that was my greater degradation—debased my soul by making my body look worse than it is. She Buildeth Her House 2011-01-04T03:01:05.167Z Each taught you to look down upon your fellow-beings with vigorous pride, and despise them as a blunted, debased, tortured and enslaved mass. The Song of Songs 2011-01-01T03:00:25.907Z But during the subprime bubble, it had debased itself to maintain that No. 1 position, becoming a hotbed of fraud and predatory lending. Talking Business: Big Problem for Banks: Due Process 2010-10-23T00:26:00Z Maybe the once unthinkably debased nature of America's partisan politics has become impossible to render more horrible no matter how much fake blood one uses. An oil-stained BP uniform is the Halloween outfit for 2010 2010-10-13T07:59:00Z A third factor is that currencies are being debased in the developed world, where sovereign debt is at record levels and bearish commentators fear the dollar could slump 20% in the next two years. The bulls head the global stampede for gold bullion - but will it last? 2010-10-09T23:07:00Z All the sacred fortifications of self seemed broken, even the soul's integrity debased, when Bellingham crushed his way in and forced her to obey. She Buildeth Her House 2011-01-04T03:01:05.167Z Why would it matter if UNESCO’s currency were debased? UNESCO's world heritage sites: A danger list in danger 2010-08-26T10:50:00Z He was a debased flunky for corporate lobbyists then and he has not changed. Democrats deserve credit -- not blame -- on ethics 2010-08-05T21:06:00Z The National Review's Rich Lowry recently explained just how debased and vulgar the entire WWE phenomenon is. Joe Lieberman still flirting with endorsing Linda McMahon 2010-06-08T20:01:00Z Huge structures employed numbingly endless columns and redundant motifs in a debased version of the Palladian ideal that reduced a glorious tradition to embalmed monotony. A Golden Age and Its Heirs 2010-05-25T01:47:00Z The talent levels of the artists speak for themselves; the drawings appear to be a debased incarnation of Egyptian hieroglyphs. Microphone madness 2010-03-19T00:20:00Z Communist-imposed modernity defaced and debased cityscapes, language, manners and much more in the last century. Europe.view: Struggles, suffering and Skype 2010-03-04T06:29:00Z The will of one fined already of one half his empire by the divine Hand which raised up the most abject of savages to punish a debased Christian realm. The Formation of Christendom, Volume VII The Panama treasury fortunately contained at that time a sum of $140,000 in debased Colombian coinage, worth about $56,000 in gold. The Panama Canal A history and description of the enterprise They were too often devoted to gladiatorial shows and other exhibitions which only debased the spectators. Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius Se�or," said the boy, proudly, "though you will deride such vanity in poor barbarians of the desert, yet did we ever think ourselves, who had always been free and unenslaved, debased by servitude. Calavar or The Knight of The Conquest, A Romance of Mexico The columns of the nave and aisles are extremely stunted in proportion, and their capitals are of a very debased type, copied by inferior artists from Byzantine models. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 4 "Aram, Eugene" to "Arcueil" We must accordingly allow that not to love dogs is not a sign of a black heart or p. 220a debased nature. Rustic Sounds and Other Studies in Literature and Natural History Its currency was debased, its treasury empty, its debt rapidly increasing through a large annual deficit. The Panama Canal A history and description of the enterprise His shrewd if debased intellect had told him from the first that nothing but the direst need would bring a Dudley to his door on any sort of mission whatsoever. The Man from Jericho However debauched he might have been by the habit which chained him, he had always dressed with scrupulous care, and he had never associated with those whom he regarded as low and debased. The Man Who Rose Again Is it comforting for a father to anticipate with certainty that all the vices which have corrupted his life, blighted his home and debased his moral nature are to be transmitted to his offspring? What a Young Husband Ought to Know If the masters of commerce are liberal and enlightened, their servants will be thriving, and will have the virtues which wait upon self-respect: if the contrary, they will be debased. How to Observe Morals and Manners The entrance displays columns and an entablature of debased but not unpleasing Renaissance architecture, and the building altogether resembles an English Elizabethan or Jacobean building to a greater extent than most Scottish designs. Architecture Gothic and Renaissance It is a very large building, and the domes from a distance are very effective, but the interior is in the worst and most debased style. Glories of Spain As an illustration, Laborde mentions some coined silver sent home in the year 1654, which was paid away by the Spanish merchants, and was subsequently discovered to have been debased. An Architect's Note-Book in Spain principally illustrating the domestic architecture of that country. Wherefore all the less should we from those mistakes infer a new motion, or let the noble magnetick nature of the earth be debased for an opinion so lightly conceived. On the magnet, magnetick bodies also, and on the great magnet the earth a new physiology, demonstrated by many arguments & experiments Marriage is debased by being considered the one worldly object in life,—that on which maintenance, consequence, and power depend. How to Observe Morals and Manners Page 88—achitecture amended to architecture—"... their architecture, though certainly Gothic, is debased in style." Architecture Gothic and Renaissance I shall be grateful if my readers will accept it as such rather than as an idealized or debased presentation of my own existence up to the age of twenty-three. Sinister Street, vol. 2 "I think experience makes the setting, and according to the experience the personality is perfected or debased, but nothing can destroy personality, not even death," she murmured, far away for a moment from this orchard. Sinister Street, vol. 1 |
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