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  • Since we conservative Christians (cCs) are quick to question the belief of a person who says they are a Christian but who readily and consciously engages in adulterous behavior, one should not be surprise if cCs question the belief of one who engages in homosexual behavior. Think Progress » Archdiocese responds to controversy over its decision to kick children with lesbian parents out of school.
  • At dusk on July 17, 1996, on a deserted Long Island beach, a man and a woman engage in adulterous sex in front of a video camera. Night Fall: Summary and book reviews of Night Fall by Nelson DeMille.
  • Kerry Fox and Mark Rylance star as a couple whose wordless, adulterous affair descends into paranoia and self-destruction.
  • He skilfully convinces Othello that his wife Desdemona has been adulterous with Cassio.
  • The Republicans were quick to try and get Bill Clinton impeached for infidelity - now they're trying their darnedest to keep their own adulterous politicians in office and downplay it! Steele: Sanford, Ensign affairs 'old news, old school'
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  • The veneer of middle-class respectability is laid bare for the cheating, backstabbing and adulterous world it really is in Leslie Darbon's play.
  • Yes ... 'twould be about ten years since she'd dropped Cumming's acquaintance abruptly, and my lurid imagination could conjure up the scene in some silken nest of sin around South Audley Street, circa 1880, Cumming all moustachioed and masterful in his long combinations and my adulterous angel bursting proudly out of her corset as they slanged each other across the crumpled sheets of shame. Watershed
  • Three disconsolate tai-tais, wealthy wives with adulterous husbands, go off to a pleasure palace north of Hong Kong—in other words, on the supposedly puritanical mainland--where they compete for the love of a superstud gigolo. Bullets, Love and Beijing's Heavy Hand
  • he behaved adulterously
  • It turns out that Hermanus is an adulterous hotbed of extramarital affairs.
  • Smelly, ugly, rude, indelicate, and adulterous are just a few of the ‘nicer’ comments made about Caroline of Brunswick.
  • An important point under Scots law is that an adulterous spouse cannot raise a divorce action, and it may not be in the best interests of the aggrieved spouse to do so.
  • Although I hear the minimum system requirements are a joke and you really need an alien computer from the future in order to play it in its full-featured adulterous glory.
  • Some men earn their keep by prying into the lives of others, to inform their clients for fee whether those overseen or overheard are criminal, adulterous, employable.
  • In particular, engaging in adulterous/cheating relationship will result in a disturbed and an unfocused mind, vulnerable to bribery as one will be more intent to hide the wrong relationship. Meghan McCain: Sanford affair is 'private matter'
  • The first part of the essay is a story which her mother tells her about her allegedly adulterous aunt, villainized and accused of harlotry.
  • In fact, she said, it's a part of the whole extra-marital mating ritual, according to Wysocki, who said adulterous interactions that begin online seem to follow a regular pattern.
  • He had an adulterous relationship with his wife's best friend.
  • Voyeuristic views of activities in apartment and office buildings imply domestic abuse, adulterous affairs, satanic rituals, suicide and criminal action.
  • And for a man who for so long struggled to find fulfilment in love - even in an adulterous affair - the loss of the illusion might be hard to bear.
  • Agent reports flooded into bureau offices complaining that the freed men and women persisted in “the disgusting practice of living together as man and wife without proper marriage,” “living together and calling themselves man and wife as long as it conveniently suits them,” and maintaining bigamous or adulterous relationships. A Renegade History of the United States
  • In 1995 the Dean was accused in a consistory court of having had an adulterous affair with a former verger, nearly 30 years his junior.
  • The term adulterous, I conceive, may chiefly relate to the Jews, who being nationally espoused to God by covenant, every sin of theirs was in a peculiar manner spiritual adultery. Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. I.
  • From two monologues we hear many voices describing the lovers' adulterous affair and their plan to kill Kesa's husband.
  • That is why they had been reluctant to give their adulterous sister a proper burial.
  • That nation and generation might be called adulterous literally; for what else, I beseech you, was their irreligious polygamy than continual adultery? From the Talmud and Hebraica
  • an adulterous relationship
  • The last clause in the addendum was a beauty: the company could discharge Swanson for any reason if “at any time in the future, through no fault of Famous Players-Lasky and/or without its connivance and consent, first party shall be charged with adulterous conduct or immoral relations with men other than her husband, and such charges or any of them are published in the public press, the waiver herein contained shall be null and void and of no force and effect.” Empire of Dreams
  • The protagonist of this novel, married young to a much older man, embarks on an adulterous liaison with one of his friends.
  • He lives in the smartest house in the area, and is unhappily married to the beautiful Solema, a teacher of radical views and adulterous instincts.
  • He was the result of an adulterous wartime affair.
  • He skilfully convinces Othello that his wife Desdemona has been adulterous with Cassio.
  • An outsider, because of her birth (the result of her father's adulterous relationship) and by nature, she confides in her diary, which is read by her sister-in-law with unfortunate consequences.
  • Other men are deceived by wives who bear children through adulterous liaisons and who mislead them into thinking that the children are theirs.
  • The ban covered all friendly mingling with former enemy nationals, but the term "fraternization" quickly became synonymous with illicit and adulterous sex. Miss Yourlovin: GIs, Gender, and Domesticity during World War II
  • adulterous husbands and wives
  • Even the ones who threatened a wobbly lower lip and adulterous quick beating of the heart proved to be a thorough anti-climax.
  • As he said this, a man entered into the women's apartment and opened the two doors; whence there issued a libidinous effluvium, which had a stench like mire; this arose from polygamical love, which is connubial, and at the same time adulterous; so I rose and shut the doors. The Delights of Wisdom Pertaining to Conjugial Love
  • Then punish the adulterous man as harshly, for that is just as effective a deterrent as punishing the woman.
  • Stubbes, regretfully concluding that his ideal punishment was unacceptable -- that convicted prostitutes should be "made to drinke a full draught of Moyses cuppe, that is, tast [e] of present death" -- went on to suggest the next best thing: branding, on the cheek or forehead, "to the end [that] honest and chast Christians might be discerned from the adulterous Children of Sathan. Wrong Side of the River: London's disreputable South Bank in the sixteenth and seventeenth century. Jessica A. Browner
  • Eddy dangles a very tempting adulterous carrot in front of Richard and suggests a convivial evening of wife swapping.
  • It was the same in Sind when husbands were assured that they would be hanged for cutting down adulterous wives: at once after its conquest the women broke loose; and in The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
  • According to Bayle, because she thinks the man is her husband, the wife, in ceding him those rights, not only is inculpable of an act that otherwise would be adulterous, but actually performs her duty. This, About The Man I Met Out Here In Nearly Nowhere
  • They reasoned that after an adulterous three-year affair he was simply trying to do the right thing.
  • His tie to her will last longer than most adulterous liaisons.
  • Here evil characterized as adulterous has actually come to a place of leadership in the Church. Quiet Talks on the Crowned Christ of Revelation
  • The book also documents the family feud over the poet's brother's long-term adulterous affair which divided the family, and after Emily Dickinson's death, extended into a feud over her legacy and the publication of her poems. Biography Speculates Emily Dickinson Had Epilepsy
  • The opera deals with a Protestant minister who publicly forgives his wife after discovering she has had an adulterous affair in his absence.
  • Author of the anti-abortion Hyde Amendment, Rep. Henry Hyde pleaded "youthful indiscretion" regarding his long-term adulterous affair in his '40s. Michele Swenson: Male Entitlement: Church & State Preserve Male Prerogatives, Female Punishments
  • It was to have been a straight-forward contract killing arranged by an adulterous couple to rid them of the man's wife.
  • After all, I thought, she had made me feel as if there was something polluted about me because I had been born a child out of an adulterous affair, even if the adulterer was her own mother. Into the Garden
  • The threat of which arrives in the person of Zhang (Sun Honglei), a taciturn detective hired by Wang to kill the adulterous couple.
  • The leadership of the family values Right is hopelessly compromised by its long-term adulterous affair with the Republican Party. An Empire of Widows and Orphans
  • The book is also about Dickinson's brother's long-term adulterous affair, which led to a feud within the family that carried over into a fight over Emily Dickinson's poems and her legacy after her death. Billy Collins: A Poet's Affection For Emily Dickinson
  • And at the heart of the book lies one of the most marvellous depictions of an adulterous affair in fiction.
  • Actually, it seems to me that in medievalism (depictions of the medieval in the modern world), non-adulterous obstacles are more common. Literary Adultery
  • Assume this to be a joke, an illness or a cover for an adulterous affair.
  • Well, I mean, it's very rare you see the defense bringing in adulterous affairs on the part of their client!
  • A denying Peter, a persecuting Paul, an adulterous cruel David, have been received; an apostate Solomon may be converted; no sin at all but impenitency, can give testimony of final reprobation. Anatomy of Melancholy
  • Not only is Jimmy adulterous, alcoholic, womanizing, and guilty of incest, he has astonishing contempt for his wife.
  • Matthew Paris insisted that she and her husband were vicious and adulterous and that John threatened to hang her gallants over her bed.
  • The weathered face on TV, the weathered voice on radio, the Camel cigarette, his decision to end his adulterous affair with Pamela Churchill when his son was born, his savvy baritone as he righteously confronted Sen. Joseph McCarthy. Cool Is as Cool Was
  • If a man or woman is tempted to indulge in adulterous sex, for example, masturbating is a much better alternative to committing a sin.
  • His tie to her will last longer than most adulterous liaisons.
  • Its realistic portrayal of an adulterous affair was also very daring for the time.
  • It was still an adulterous affair, but the time-travel device distanced the audience from the fact.
  • Their adulterous love affair was discovered by the woman's husband.
  • Why, to nerve herself for an adulterous affair, does she reread The Red and the Black in English?
  • Kilpatrick and Betty appears in court to deny that afterward has the adulterous love affair.
  • This ballet is a tale of romance, courtship, and adulterous encounters amidst the glitz and glamour of the belle époque. The Merry Widow at PNB
  • How many parents realize that the currently popular Jennifer is derived from Guinevere (King Arthur's adulterous queen) or that the name Pamela became popular through Samuel Richardson's Pamela; or Virtue Rewarded (1740)? VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XXIII No 4
  • Given the nature of the protagonists, it was hard to believe the tales of a torrid, adulterous affair were true.
  • And an adoptive mother, while sympathetic to her child's need to connect with a birthparent, said the tug of that love felt like an "adulterous" betrayal. The Tug Of Love, No Winners Here, A Father's Lame
  • Perhaps he feared that John might have forced him to give up his adulterous affair with his brother's wife Herodias?
  • In his short fiction Man-Eating Cats, he describes an adulterous affair not in terms of mere love but as total and complete empathy.
  • And Rudy, shocked down to his adulterous Underoos, went off on a rampaging fit of Comstockery that made even ardent supporters think he was an overreaching jerkbag. December 2006
  • One of the factors that intensifies the excitement and tension of an adulterous affair is the danger of being caught.

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