How To Use Debase In A Sentence
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When it comes to playing debased, self-destructive women, Leigh is the best actress in Hollywood.
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Instead of being authentic art, music becomes a thing to be bought and sold, which debases the very meaning of the music and defangs the threat.
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For he really did believe capitalism controls the proles not by physical oppression but by bread and circuses, by cultural debasement - or ‘dumbing down’ as we now nervously say.
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This disgusting spectacle provides a revealing insight into the debased nature of what passes for political discussion in Britain today.
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Concepts highly prized by Puritans still exist in debased form in American mass culture.
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Eclecticism flourished in the 19th century and survived, though much debased, in gated communities and suburban tract housing.
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It would be sounded high that he debased human nature, which has a "cognation," so the reverend and learned Doctor Cudworth calls it, with the divine; that the soul of man, immaterial and immortal by its nature, was made to contemplate higher and nobler objects than this sensible world, and even than itself, since it was made to contemplate God and to be united to Him.
Letters to Sir William Windham and Mr. Pope
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So far there has been precious little questioning of this long-term debasement of the world's biggest currency.
David McWilliams: The Dollar's Denial
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Perrin says in the essay that he believes Williams en. wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Williams_ (UK_writer) is less famous than Tolkien or C.S. Lewis partly because he wrote fiction only for adults, not for adults and children: “All Hallows Eve will never be a TV special – or if it is, it will be so debased and vulgarized as to make most TV specials of great books seem works of astonishing fidelity.”
2008 October 23 « One-Minute Book Reviews
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Y: And who turns away from the religion of Abraham but such as debase their souls with folly?
Three Translations of The Koran (Al-Qur'an) side by side
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a debased currency
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Her tendency to deconstruct and debase everything only points to the lack of substance that might be found in her own soul.
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Science and Classical artistic life are good, and the contrary, such as today's popular cultures, are bad per se in respect to their tendency to cause populations to debase, even bestialize themselves, as fascists do, as the violent existentialists of 1968 did, that to the ruinous effects on the culture of the world as a whole, today.
LaRouche's Latest
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The currency was hopelessly debased, the government corrupt, the armies more interested in plundering the provinces than protecting them; many people believed the dissolution of the empire was at hand.
Superversive: Gondor, Byzantium, and Feudalism
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The medical profession has been debased by these revelations.
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Stuart was convinced that society could not afford to debase itself to the level of... his clients.
CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER
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It pollutes and debases the debate in this country, making it harder for us to tackle our problems intelligently or to maintain a sense of commonality as a society.
Evening Buzz: Racism Fueling the Anger at Pres. Obama?
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The holy humble temper of a Christian, both in advancement and debasement, is described: and both poor and rich are directed on what grounds to build their joy and comfort, v. 9-11.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
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Each time, a state in fiscal crisis overissued paper money, causing inflation, debasement of the money, and commercial chaos.
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A man doesn't get delirium tremens even if he smokes more than is good for him; he doesn't become a debased mortal; there is nothing about tobacco which makes a man beat his wife or assault his mother-in-law -- rather the reverse, in fact, for tobacco is a soother and a quietener of the passions, and many a man, I daresay, has been prevented from doing rash things in the way of retaliation, when he has lit his pipe and had a good think over his affairs.
The Social History of Smoking
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Worse, a discouraged, angry, and alienated lower class is directly related to the growing debasement of our popular culture.
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Out of what you call the despicable race of Negroes, debased, demoralized by two hundred years of slavery, 100,000 of them imported into the island within four years, unable to speak a dialect intelligible even to each other.
History of the American Negro in the Great World War His Splendid Record in the Battle Zones of Europe; Including a Resume of His Past Services to his Country in the Wars of the Revolution, of 1812, the War of Rebellion, the Indian Wars on the Frontier, t
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Kitsch, using for raw material the debased and academicized simulacra of genuine culture, welcomes and cultivates this insensibility.
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The doctrines which the sages had associated with the idea of Serapis, debased and degraded by the most contemptible trivialities; lost all their worth and dignity; and after the great
Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works
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French, theretofore regarded as a debased form of Latin, became the official language in 1539, in the reign of François I.
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Currency debasement is a theme unlikely to go away any time soon.
Gold Mania? Not Quite
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Former Republican Senator Alan Simpson also testified in support of the ban stating that a system of unlimited contributions "prostitutes ideas and ideals, demeans democracy, and debases debates.
Fred Wertheimer: 2010 Elections: Secret Financing and the Campaign Finance Reform Battles to Come
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From time immemorial despots have imprisoned their opponents under particularly cruel conditions; they have tortured them, dishonored them, debased and executed them.
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It could be the ultimate alchemy, at least in the debased sense of transmuting the elements.
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She said: "Nudity has always existed in art, and I think that, given the right conditions, it doesn't necessarily 'debase' any more than it celebrates or represents the human body" … … … ….
The First Post: Latest
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It really has become an increasingly debased process of making art.
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He abominated such manifestations of the debasement of the modern age as cars, wireless sets and refrigerators; cherished the past; feared the future; and found in the societies he investigated a way of life and a moral attitude that seemed infinitely more important than anything on offer in the "civilized" West.
Drawn to Harsh Places
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Misguided craven cowards have debased the nobleness of mankind.
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Investors are turning to gold because of fears of long-term inflation and major currency debasement due to fiscal deficits, government debt issuance and quantitative easing.
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_Delight_ is naturally formed by the participle _de_ and _light_, to make light, in the same way as "debase," to make base, "defile," to make foul.
Notes and Queries, Number 38, July 20, 1850
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ÂSome stalwart grad student could write quite a paper on the undertones and resonances of a paragraph like this one: "Through British veins runs the poisonous fake idealism of "human rights" and "sensitivity," of happy-clappy multicultural groveling and sick, weak, deracinated moral universalism -- the rotten fruit of a debased, sentimentalized Christianity.
Richard (RJ) Eskow: England's Ashes - America's Future?
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But if a college culture tolerates and fails to properly investigate, adjudicate, and punish serious sexual misconduct, then it debases campus life, makes a farce of campus "conduct codes," and may leave the college's reputation in ruins.
Bennett L. Gershman: Campus "Justice" Shows a Culture of Complacency
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On the other hand the Negro debased and brutified by a servitude of centuries, has no comprehension or desire for home in any exalted sense.
Afro-American Encyclopaedia; or, The Thoughts, Doings, and Sayings of the Race, Embracing Addresses, Lectures, Biographical Sketches, Sermons, Poems, Names of Universities, Colleges, Seminaries, Newspapers, Books, and a History of the Denominations, Givin
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I expect the Lord Remembrancer, if not the Lord Cetic, will soon expose our pharmacologist and debase him.
THE BROKEN GOD
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For many in the new generation it has become a debased form of personal power seeking.
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Fixing the currency to a finite standard guarantees that it will be necessary to "debase" to accommodate a growing population, growing demand for money itself.
How an Iranian 'Oil Bourse' Threatens the American Empire
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Agit-poppers convinced themselves that rock was archaic and debased, no longer capable of functioning as a medium for radical comment.
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Note, It is just with God to debase those by his judgments who have by sin debased themselves.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
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The lasting war debased the value of the dollar.
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Anguish animates reflection, driving the author deeper into his understanding of the ultimates posed by death's facticity and fueling his rage at a society that debases dying and turns it into a therapeutic event.
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No one could have predicted how debased higher education would become.
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At first, I couldn't bring myself to believe the veracity of the news item until I concluded that the reporter could not have been so debased as to fabricate the news to calumniate college students for no apparent reason.
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Sport is being debased by commercial sponsorship.
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This process is rooted in a constant debasement of humans, deprived of moral and ethical ‘values.’
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Henry suspected that, panicked by the loneliness and debased status of the early months of widowhood, she was already looking for a second husband and was beginning to realize that a seventeen-year-old chairbound son was an obstacle to be carefully weighed by likely candidates against her late husband's money, her own ageing and desperate sexuality.
She Closed Her Eyes
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The mammalian lagena, called a cochlea, is spiral-shaped and drills into the surrounding bone like a corkscrew opening some debased Australian vintage stoppered with bone.
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From time to time, as they hurried on, they encountered, and made wide detours to escape contact with knots of wayfarers -- men debased and begrimed, with dreary and slatternly women, arm in arm, zigzaging widely across the sidewalks, chorusing with sodden voices the burden of some popularized ballad.
The Black Bag
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The silver antoninianus, which had first been coined to replace the debased denarius, was itself debased until it was made of pure copper with a thin silver wash.
Superversive: Gondor, Byzantium, and Feudalism
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I looked for things that debased freedom, promoted license, ridiculed responsibility, and denigrated man and God - but that was all of TV.
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Nor, in her view, did this do much to debase truth-telling as an imperative.
DEATH OF A NYMPH
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No doubt, compared with today's generally debased television fare, the live dramas of the 1950s may seem an idyllic era.
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Sin debases and degrades the persons who commit it.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
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The young in particular see him as a man who will not sell out or be debased by the compromises of politics.
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He reserves special scorn for academic leaders who have debased the academy by pretending that fields like hospitality and gaming studies have a place at university.
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We have seen that, if there was one ambitious scheme in his calculation which, though not absolutely generous and heroic, still might win its way to a certain sympathy in the undebased human mind, it was the hope to restore the fallen fortunes of his ancient house, and repossess himself of the long alienated lands that surrounded the dismal wastes of the mouldering hall.
My Novel — Volume 09
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The unbidden guests examine a row of family portraits, but are too dull to recognize them as men and women, beneath the disguise of a preposterous garb, and with features and expression debased, because inherited through ages of moral and physical decay.
Mosses from an Old Manse
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Patents have made science increasingly profit-focused, a debasement which has led to calls from some scientists to do away with them altogether.
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And with the creep of monetary inflation comes the specter of myriad inflationary effects, currency debasement, and progressive monetary disorder.
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Inflation, which is always politically engineered, devalues currencies, debases trust and takes years to work its way out of investors' perceptions.
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Who deserts his father's race, seeks the black blood to debase, which thro' his own veins doth chase, he be accurst!
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They deny both the justice and expediency of permitting any degree of ignorance or debasement to work the forfeiture of self-ownership, and pronounce slavery continued for such a cause the worst of all, inasmuch as it is the _robbery of the poor because he is poor_.
The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus
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'Tis a shame to give him a place where he can put th 'comether on millions iv people that has had no business thrainin' beyond occasionally handin 'a piece iv debased money to a car conductor on a cold day.
Observations By Mr. Dooley
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Are we so debased in our literary ghetto that we're haters for not cheerleading for the latest "kewl" author?
TEV GIVEAWAY: BEAUTIFUL CHILDREN
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Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine us, by a constant, steady, uniform, insensible operation, like that of the air we breathe in.
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ÂSome stalwart grad student could write quite a paper on the undertones and resonances of a paragraph like this one: "Through British veins runs the poisonous fake idealism of "human rights" and "sensitivity," of happy-clappy multicultural groveling and sick, weak, deracinated moral universalism -- the rotten fruit of a debased, sentimentalized Christianity.
Richard (RJ) Eskow: England's Ashes - America's Future?
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Despite all the worries that quantitative easing will "debase" the greenback, it's still the currency of choice when risk appears.
The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed
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First and foremost, a kind of alchemical transmutation of all mere rationality into true Reason instrumental rationality being only the leaden and debased form of Reason; of the transmutation of mere fantasy into creative imagination, of knowledge into wisdom; and of science into gnosis.
Blake, Nietzsche, and Sri Aurobindo
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_Delight_ is naturally formed by the participle _de_ and _light_, to make light, in the same way as "debase," to make base, "defile," to make foul.
Notes and Queries, Number 38, July 20, 1850
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It describes how every human value is debased and turned into purely cash terms.
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It was fairly easy for laymen to distinguish debased coins from sound coins.
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The rhetoric of movie reviews is a debased currency.
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To paraphrase, better that Britain, heir to the legacy of imperial and civilizational grandezza, recover these fragments than that they be lost to the ignorance and obscurity of an orientalized and debased "second race" whose only claim to them is that they happen to be squatting upon the lands once occupied by a "nobler race" of antique Greeks.
The Ruins of Empire: Nationalism, Art, and Empire in Hemans's Modern Greece
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Just when you thought he couldn't get any lower, Carl once again debased himself and the entire political process," a spokesman for Mr. Cuomo, Josh Vlasto, said.
Cuomo Turns Tables on Paladino
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But now I fain debase myself to all who rail at thee:
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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They came from all directions, travelling on roads known only to a few mad or debased souls.
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Manners are what vex or soothe, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine us by a constant, steady, uniform, invincible operation like that of the air we breathe.
Pushing to the Front
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I have dreamed of a friend, a companion, a protector, with feelings still fresh, undebased by the low round of vulgar dissipation and mean pleasures, -- of a heart so new, that it might restore my own to what it was in its happy spring.
My Novel — Volume 08
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Stuart was convinced that society could not afford to debase itself to the level of... his clients.
CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER
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It is to be hoped that a numerous and enterprising generation of writers will follow and surpass the present one; but it would be better if the stream were stayed, and the roll of our old, honest English books were closed, than that esurient book-makers should continue and debase a brave tradition, and lower, in their own eyes, a famous race.
Essays in the Art of Writing
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The second reason to debase is to consume the debt.
SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page
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The 40th anniversary of the Normandy landings and of V-E and V-J days had filled the air with encomiums to our long-lost martial splendor, and I naively felt bad that B. Bunny had to serve in the debased, modern Marine Corps.
Getting Their Guns Off
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The author prefers to use the term costiveness for the general debased condition of the system from auto-intoxication depending upon proctitis and similar conditions of the intestinal tract.
Intestinal Ills Chronic Constipation, Indigestion, Autogenetic Poisons, Diarrhea, Piles, Etc. Also Auto-Infection, Auto-Intoxication, Anemia, Emaciation, Etc. Due to Proctitis and Colitis
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That doesn't mean that I'm trying to "debase" reading by aligning it with "the essentially passive experience of watching television," it just means that I want my time with a book to be well-spent.
Archive 2007-01-01
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To build quickly or formulaically generally entails the debasement of materials, with a resulting sensory impoverishment.
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Jean Valjean, the reformed criminal, discovers her, is made aware that her debasement is the result of the act of his foreman, and takes her, half dead with misery and sickness, to his own house.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 57, July, 1862
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All social institutions have been adapted to suit the prejudices of a canaille debased beyond any degeneracy that our forefathers could have imagined.
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Why are you always promoting some kind of adulteration or debasement of our culture?
Bad Pat
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a Power it could not see or comprehend was gradually debased into what is now known as Brahminism, and the most repugnant, revolting, cruel, obscene and vicious rites ever practiced by savages or barbarians.
Modern India
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`Thugs," said Kemp, his head swimming only just above swirling soupy water, `now there's a word that's been debased.
IN REMEMBRANCE OF ROSE
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What had once been high art, fashioned by the Romans or Michelangelo, has become debased, mass-culture kitsch.
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Sport is being debased by commercialism.
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Stuart was convinced that society could not afford to debase itself to the level of... his clients.
CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER
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The origin of this criticism is affirmative: it is because Pope believed unshakably in the inherence of truth in nature, that he could express so negatively his anxiety at seeing it debased.
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I feel that those who portray an aggressive, vulgar, debased attitude towards life are conniving in that life, and I think publishers should reject them.
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The medical profession has been debased by these revelations.
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Sport is being debased by commercial sponsorship.
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I expect the Lord Remembrancer, if not the Lord Cetic, will soon expose our pharmacologist and debase him.
THE BROKEN GOD
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They blame pornography for divorce, the dissolution of families, the debasement of sex, and general spiritual dissolution.
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Humes, and the whole nest of 'popular' infidels, to make manifest how precious a thing is the sincere thirst of truth for the sake of truth undebased by vanity, appetite, and the ambition of forming a sect of
The Life of Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1838
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Some argue that money has debased football.
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And meanwhile for you, refuse to play the part of the whining, insecure girlfriend who debases herself by waiting around for a guy who regularly makes her feel like the least important part of his life.
ProWomanProLife » 2010 » June
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Dancing, which is not only rhythmic movement, pure and simple, undebased with any element of utility, but is capable of performance under conditions positively baneful, is for these reasons the most engaging of them all; and if it were but one-half as wicked as the prudes have endeavored by method of naughty suggestion to make it would lack of absolute bliss nothing but the other half.
The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 8 Epigrams, On With the Dance, Negligible Tales
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Only the debased American media could uncritically repeat such outrageous claims.
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But you abused, debased and threatened that woman, threatening her and demeaning her.
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I expect the Lord Remembrancer, if not the Lord Cetic, will soon expose our pharmacologist and debase him.
THE BROKEN GOD
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The sacrality of work persists, albeit in a rather debased form, in the idea of the hobby.
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On stage, he becomes an archetypal embodiment of the debased American dream.
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Agit-poppers convinced themselves that rock was archaic and debased, no longer capable of functioning as a medium for radical comment.
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He had the sultani gold coins debased and reduced in size in response to increased competition with multinational currencies in the Mediterranean.
1682, April 10
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One of the chief lessons he left them wrought well for the casting out of all with which the feudal system had debased the patriarchal; and the poverty shared with the clan had powerfully helped: it was spoken against the growing talionic regard of human relations -- that, namely, the conditions of a bargain fulfilled on both sides, all is fulfilled between the bargaining parties.
What's Mine's Mine — Complete
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I find that in 1631 our house of burgesses desired of the privy council in England, a coin debased to twenty-five per cent.; that in 1645 they forbid dealing by barter for tobacco, and established the Spanish piece of eight at six shillings, as the standard of their currency; that in 1655 they changed it to five shillings sterling.
Notes on the State of Virginia
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Wherever they settled in America, besides the common schools, they turned their attention to high schools or academies, and to colleges, to educate men for all the departments of life, carrying in their emigration, the deep conviction, that without sound and extensive education, there could be no permanence in religious or civil institutions, or any pure and undebased enjoyments of domestic life.
Sketches of North Carolina, Historical and Biographical, Illustrative of the Principles of a Portion of Her Early Settlers
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We expect our television to debase us, empty us, and condescend to us.
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He argued broadly as follows: Nineteenth-Century historicism had debased the currency of traditional architectural forms.
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This is Hindi cinema at its most debased, debauch, dreadful.
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A doubling of prices in three decades called a debasement of the currency?
City Journal
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The young in particular see him as a man who will not sell out or be debased by the compromises of politics.
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The debasement and corruption of the media are profound symptoms of the decomposition of the country's democracy.
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In her might be seen, and in her was seen by the Europeans who attended the levee of that day, what the negro face and form may be when seen in their native climate, unhardened by degradation, undebased by ignorance, unspoiled by oppression -- all peculiarities of feature softened under the refining influence of mind, and all peculiarities of expression called out in their beauty by the free exercise of natural affections.
The Hour and the Man, An Historical Romance
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Yet by the simple instincts of a soul undebased by self-indulgence or low pursuits, he was drawn ever toward things lofty and good; and life went calmly on, bearing Godfrey Wardour toward middle age, unruffled either by anxiety or ambition.
Mary Marston
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It doesn't "enliven" the literary debate, it only debases it.
Book Reviewing
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Other means of paying the debt are either inflation (debasement of the value of money), or economic growth - which is falsely measured because it is based on undervalued exhaustible resources and unvalued pollution.
Herman Daly Festschrift~ Socially Sustainable Economic Degrowth
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One of the tests for someone or something to qualify as an icon—a term so debased by overuse that it needs to be sparingly applied—should be the fifty-year rule.
All The Available Light
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It was far debased from the English she had learned in Cairo during the last century.
Lilith’s Dream: A Tale of the Vampire Life
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While Ignatieff is out of touch and grasps for poll numbers and votes if Stephen Taylor really believes that Canadians are only interested in “jobs and economic recover” he is narrow minded at best and debases all Canadians who work for the betterment of others in Canada and elsewhere.
ProWomanProLife » This sounds a bit too much like defeatism for my taste
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The debasement of the media can be traced in relation to the great political convulsions of the past 30 years.
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Some stalwart grad student could write quite a paper on the undertones and resonances of a paragraph like this one: "Through British veins runs the poisonous fake idealism of "human rights" and "sensitivity," of happy-clappy multicultural groveling and sick, weak, deracinated moral universalism -- the rotten fruit of a debased, sentimentalized Christianity.
Richard (RJ) Eskow: England's Ashes - America's Future?
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Brazil's sharp-tongued Finance Minister Guido Mantega quickly became an international sensation when he coined the phrase "currency wars" to refer to excessive currency manipulation in these times of high volatility and dollar debasement.
Forbes.com: News
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A general consensus exists as to his anxiety to shed a load of cultural baggage - academic formalism, received ideas and above all the debased French tradition of naive musical imitations of nature.
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From the first sip, the drink with cheater ice was like a debased “cocktail lite,” with thin flavors and watery insipidness.
Cold Fusion
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But a Pentagon-supported service group, the Military Order of the Purple Heart, has strongly opposed expanding the definition to include psychological symptoms, saying it would "debase" the honor.
Delaware Watch
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Funny money is a funny thing, the more you expand the supply of it - the more its purchasing power lessens: it is known as the debasement of the currency - it loses value.
WHAT REALLY HAPPENED
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It should be called a debase rather than a debate.
American Beat: The Non-Debate Debate
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They debased the value of the dollar.
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They are simply devaluing further the already debased coin of Irish politics.
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The letter testifies to the debased level of what passes for intellectual life in the United States.
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The infamously debased tabloid press loved it, and ended up giving unprecedented coverage to the issue of debt forgiveness.
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The smug satire of liberal humorists debases our comedy — and our national conversation.
Cheap Laughs
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Setting the question of Christianity aside, experience shows that the attempt to orientalize Occidentals may prove no less disastrous than the attempt to occidentalize Orientals, and that to transport Eastern mysticism to the West is to vulgarize it and to produce a debased form of occultism that frequently ends in moral deterioration or mental derangement. [
Secret Societies And Subversive Movements
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And with the creep of monetary inflation comes the specter of myriad inflationary effects, currency debasement, and progressive monetary disorder.
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I do believe we play some unspecifiable but not inconsiderable part in maintaining a measure of clear thinking in a largely debased intellectual culture.
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Irregular and uncouth in form, rough in texture, and often repulsive in content, it summed up the distinctive traits of grotesque ugliness, standing as a debased counterpoint to exalted, flawless classical perfection.
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Now it's for chuckleheads and debased drunks the world over.
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Our world view has become debased. We no longer have a sense of the sacred.
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Nor, in her view, did this do much to debase truth-telling as an imperative.
DEATH OF A NYMPH
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That the zodial [23] signs are significant records of something worthy of being preserved, is prejudice to deny; and we must be allowed to regard the Gorgons and Hydras of the skies as interesting problems yet unsolved, as well as to consider that the belief in lunar influence is a fragment of a true system of natural philosophy which has become more and more debased in postdiluvian times.
Outlines of a Mechanical Theory of Storms Containing the True Law of Lunar Influence
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There exists an incentive to debase the currency.
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Or consider, Frum says, the debasement of universities, where gay studies, courses on the novels of Louis L'Amour and the frivolities of decon-struction proliferate.
Up From Geniality
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Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine us, by a constant, steady, uniform, insensible operation, like that of the air we breathe in.
The Elements of Character
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In such esteem it continued for many ages, till at length Mesue and some other Arabians began to reject and reprehend it, upon whose authority for many following lustres, it was much debased and quite out of request, held to be poison and no medicine; and is still oppugned to this day by [4225] Crato and some junior physicians.
Anatomy of Melancholy
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The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible.
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When the name of Gail Wynand became a threat in the publishing world, a group of newspaper owners took him aside -- at a city charity affair which all had to attend -- and reproached him for what they called his debasement of the public taste.
The Fountainhead
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Some stalwart grad student could write quite a paper on the undertones and resonances of a paragraph like this one: "Through British veins runs the poisonous fake idealism of "human rights" and "sensitivity," of happy-clappy multicultural groveling and sick, weak, deracinated moral universalism -- the rotten fruit of a debased, sentimentalized Christianity.
Richard (RJ) Eskow: England's Ashes - America's Future?
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Are standards of taste in music, art, or entertainment being raised, maintained or debased?
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Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine, by a constant, steady, uniform and insensible operation, like that of the air we breathe in.
A Manual of Etiquette with Hints on Politeness and Good Breeding
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For it threatens freedom in the name of the most debased conception of democracy.
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For we are all undebased by slavery; and there is no land behind us, nor does even the sea afford a refuge, whilst the Roman fleet hovers around.
The Germany and the Agricola of Tacitus
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Nor, in her view, did this do much to debase truth-telling as an imperative.
DEATH OF A NYMPH
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Maybe the reason for the junkiness of so much of what pretends to entertain us is that we have accepted - indeed, we have helped to articulate - such a narrow, debased concept of entertainment," proposes
GreenCine Daily
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In short, preemption is now a politicized, debased word.
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`Thugs," said Kemp, his head swimming only just above swirling soupy water, `now there's a word that's been debased.
IN REMEMBRANCE OF ROSE
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The young in particular see him as a man who will not sell out or be debased by the compromises of politics.
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Economic transactions would then be conducted through barter rather than via the medium of a debased script.
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Some stalwart grad student could write quite a paper on the undertones and resonances of a paragraph like this one: "Through British veins runs the poisonous fake idealism of "human rights" and "sensitivity," of happy-clappy multicultural groveling and sick, weak, deracinated moral universalism -- the rotten fruit of a debased, sentimentalized Christianity.
Richard (RJ) Eskow: England's Ashes - America's Future?
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The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible.
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Quintilian thinks otherwise, were debased with a mixture of feculency.
De vita Caesarum
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The sweet air of heaven, the blue firmament, and the everlasting hills do not satisfy our poisoned hearts; so we make to ourselves a little tin-pot world of blotted-paper, debased rupees, graded lists, and tinsel honours; we try to feed our lungs on its typhoidal effluvia.
Twenty-One Days in India; and, the Teapot Series
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His pride, if we must call it so, undebased by the least tincture of mere vanity, was intertwined with
MacMillan's Reading Books Book V
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How debased is the public discourse when Donald Trump is the voice of reason?
Think Progress » Donald Trump on Iraq.
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Or does mere public belabouring sometimes debase the very virtues intended for promotion and inoculate public sentiment against subscription?
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Your claim is that "One person one vote" debases the currency of decision-making, by over-printing it and failing to concentrate it in the hands of those who are like yourself.
See One-Man, One-Vote Questioned on National TV, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
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From time immemorial despots have imprisoned their opponents under particularly cruel conditions; they have tortured them, dishonored them, debased and executed them.
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Even in the long debased hyperbole of historic moments in the Northern Ireland peace process, this was a monumental announcement.
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Compared with the conventional array receiver, optimal transmitting beam width decreases and transmitting power requirement is debased in the distributed array receiver.
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Long before Paris Hilton debased the concept of the "celebutante," Brenda Diana Duff Frazier was a glamorous rich girl famous for going to parties and not much else.
Hair of the Dog and Other 'Cures'
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Debased money in modern times in both the U.S. and Europe debases the animating spirit that fueled the Renaissance—the autonomy and liberty that exists quite outside the state.
The Reasons for Europe's Travails
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People didn't even want to have their films previewed on film because video was such a ‘debasement’ of their art.
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Against currency debasement, which is the practice of lowering the value of the currency at the expense of citizens, the best protection remains the precious metals.
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But I have trouble with the irreality of paid shills, whether bloggers, influencers, or everyday people, who debase social intercourse.
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We know that, as with any central bank, the hypothetical Central Bank of Texas would have the power to debase the burrito by printing too much of it or by maladministering our franchise.