How To Use Hara-kiri In A Sentence
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From the 17th to 19th centuries, hara-kiri was a form of death penalty, disguised as suicide, for accused individuals of Japan's warrior class.
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Bxc6+ is called "hara-kiri" by Emms because of 13...bxc6 14.
Lubomir Kavalek: The World Chess Hall of Fame
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I had in my mind the spectacle of Okinawa island, where many thousands of Japanese, rather than surrender, had drawn up in line and destroyed themselves by hand-grenades after their leaders had solemnly performed the rite of hara-kiri.
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Disgrace and defeat were atoned by committing hara-kiri or seppuku.
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In the final, disarmingly quiet scene of The Sun, the emperor is informed that the young sound technician who recorded his speech of renunciation has committed hara-kiri.
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I came to a startling conclusion that I was being set up to commit hara-kiri, a ritual suicide.
Patrick Takahashi: Suicide Dreams
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Reflecting the extent of anger in Congress over AIG, the normally placid Republican senator Charles Grassley today refused to apologise for suggesting AIG executives commit hara-kiri.
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He even pledged he would commit hara-kiri if he could not offer evidence of this five days before polling day.
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Now the question could well be, ‘Do you want me to commit hara-kiri?’
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After earnest consideration, the ronin were ordered to commit hara-kiri.
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Yet every time Tariana Turia tried it, the worm all but committed hara-kiri.
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But now Harry Reid, the electorally doomed Majority Leader, is said to be signaling his willingness to commit hara-kiri for Obama.
Matthew Yglesias » Endgame
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He would probably have been compelled to commit punk hara-kiri by impaling himself on a winklepicker.
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But hopefully with my advice you won't be reduced to returning home in a depressed state and committing hara-kiri in your bathtub.
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Japanese soldier: Open one gun to wounded companion or killed the woman children of people on one's own side completely, tossed the rifle again next, look for a small knife hara-kiri.
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Coming out in such an environment would be professional hara-kiri.
To Be Gay In Indian Business
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The day after the surrender, he committed hara-kiri or suicide.
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After failing to launch a military coup in 1970, he committed hara-kiri, ritually disembowelling himself.
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A council was held, and the prisoner was given over to the safeguard of a daimio, called Tamura Ukiyo no Daibu, who kept him in close custody in his own house, to the great grief of his wife and of his retainers; and when the deliberations of the council were completed, it was decided that, as he had committed an outrage and attacked another man within the precincts of the palace, he must perform hara-kiri,--that is, commit suicide by disembowelling; his goods must be confiscated, and his family ruined.
Tales of Old Japan
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Ito sukashi dairi Hamamatsu, adj. itzebu dai-sho hanami jaburan dai-sho-no-soroimono hanamichi janken hanashika jigotai dan haniwa jimigaki daruma haori jingu do happi-coat jinja dojo harai goshi jinkai senjitsu dotaku hara-kiri jinricksha emakimono hashigakari jinrikisha Eta Hashimoto's jinriksha fuchi hatamoto jito fugu hayashi jiu-jitsu fuji hechima Jodo Fukuoka, adj.
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol IX No 1
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Nagase said he had also hoped to meet an elderly female resident in the area who had reportedly said her wartime lover, a Japanese soldier, had committed hara-kiri there.
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Alejandro Ferretis plays a middle-aged painter who has retired to a secluded and primitive village to commit suicide (this hara-kiri is perhaps a key to the enigmatic title).
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From the 12th to 17th centuries, hara-kiri was a form of ritual suicide in Japan.
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‘A samurai apologises for his sins by performing hara-kiri,’ Mr Nambu told the Japan Times.
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If she found any, she would say it would be ignominious to be dirty when I was beheaded (it is sometimes honorable for a samurai to commit hara-kiri and then be beheaded).
Osamu Shimomura - Autobiography
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He was recovering his health after a hara-kiri attempt.
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Its typical modus operandi is not to bid but threaten effectively to liquidate the trust, a vote of corporate hara-kiri.
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After failing to launch a right-wing military coup in 1970, he committed hara-kiri, ritually disembowelling himself before being decapitated by an assistant.
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Goaded by Kira, Asana draws his sword inside the Shogun's castle, an act prohibited by law, and is forced to commit hara-kiri, leaving his family and samurai retainers dishonored.
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The title affixed to this bit of self-expression was Oh, Dearie, Round-Eyes Hara-Kiri: The Wretched Act.
Over the Edge
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All of this means that Japan is rushing toward a demographic hara-kiri.
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The Japanese commander, Saito, committed hara-kiri and left his troops without leadership.
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When Pinkerton finally reappears, bringing his American wife with him, Butterfly bids a desperate farewell to her boy before retiring behind a screen to commit hara-kiri.
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Can I reach out, steal one, and perform hara-kiri in the marble bathtub?
Alex Geana: Fashion Writer Down
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He does this by undertaking a quest: he will find the sword with which the novelist performed seppuku, or what we refer to with the words that mean ‘belly cut’: hara-kiri.
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Ito sukashi dairi Hamamatsu, adj. itzebu dai-sho hanami jaburan dai-sho-no-soroimono hanamichi janken hanashika jigotai dan haniwa jimigaki daruma haori jingu do happi-coat jinja dojo harai goshi jinkai senjitsu dotaku hara-kiri jinricksha emakimono hashigakari jinrikisha Eta Hashimoto's jinriksha fuchi hatamoto jito fugu hayashi jiu-jitsu fuji hechima Jodo Fukuoka, adj.
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol IX No 1
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Dearest Glenda Becky, those who practice hara-kiri use swords, not knives you feckless fcuking degenerate MORON.
Think Progress » Glenn Beck: ‘There aren’t enough knives’ for ‘dishonored’ climate scientists to kill themselves.
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New Jersey Governor Chris Christie today announced that he will NOT run for president in 2012 -- a fact Christie had previously tried to prove by threatening to commit hara-kiri on national television.
HUFFPOST HILL - Dems Promote Dem Bill By Making It Less Dem-y
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This man has been ordered by the lord, for his own reasons, to commit hara-kiri.
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A frequent reason for committing hara-kiri was in a lost battle to avoid the disgrace of falling into the hands of an enemy.
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For a while I was afraid she was going to commit hara-kiri by eating one of her own concoctions.
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Aaaah, more “Christian” views from the teabagging terrorist hick leader: Who Would Jesus hara-kiri?
Think Progress » Glenn Beck: ‘There aren’t enough knives’ for ‘dishonored’ climate scientists to kill themselves.
