How To Use Transgression In A Sentence

At the same time, transgression of norms (getting pregnant) elicits punishment and ostracism from family, peers, partners, and the broader community.
There must then be obedience to an infinite law, or _infinite_ punishment for transgression. The Way of Salvation in the Lutheran Church
But the Law of Moses under which the Jews, as evidenced by their circumcision, are supposed to live under is very rigid and proscribes up to death for many transgressions. The Volokh Conspiracy » Ann Coulter, Christian Chauvinist:
Overeating and drunkenness both violated social moral codes, although the latter appears to have been a much weightier transgression: intoxication is frequently listed among the serious crimes — "pleasurable living," adultery, theft — mentioned by Sahagún's informants. 47 Indigenous drinking practices also shocked Spaniards who had their own ideals of moderation when it came to alcohol consumption, a topic that we look at in Chapter 4. Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico
A woman is permitted to chat or babble, but speaking in public with authority is still the greatest transgression.

For this cause also God has banished from His presence him who did of his own accord stealthily sow the tares, that is, him who brought about the transgression; [4433] but He took compassion upon man, who, through want of care no doubt, but still wickedly [on the part of another], became involved in disobedience; and ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus
Early in the film, Janice's transgressions already resonate on a specific historical level and tap into older notions regarding the feminine.
The confessional language is stunning in its clarity: ‘I know my transgressions, and my sin is ever before me.’
If he indeed were guilty of such an execrable transgression, this newspaper would be among the first to condemn, and not defend, him and his broadcaster.
That the portraits of Beethoven did not bear much likeness to the composer could be deemed a deliberate transgression.
None of these characters is evil, none commits the transgression that precipitates the suicide, but all are driven, understandably yet horrifyingly, to behave in devious ways that wound others badly. Cover to Cover
To the same purport is v. 8, for the transgression of my people was he smitten, the stroke was upon him that should have been upon us; and so some read it, He was cut off for the iniquity of my people, unto whom the stroke belonged, or was due. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
This time the alleged transgressions involve a violation of constitutional protections that really matter in a democracy.
Tickled by the notion of this souvenir of my transgression, I paid the surcharge, and keep the photo in my album to this day.
They sometimes afflicted people with fits or staggers or palsies for transgressions such as emptying a bucket of foul water in the wrong place. Wildfire
In a matter of decades, Makiki's artistic focus had shifted from the virtues of the Madonna to the transgressions of the whore.
Engle makes Sherry adorably effective as an effable, devoted (brings his lunch to work) wife who deals reasonably well with that pesky little transgression and is funny as hell when she learns while drunk that Joe's old flame is married to the renegade preacher. James Scarborough: Bail Me Out, the Hudson Guild Theatre
The first sequence spoke to me of how merciful God is for absolving my transgressions.
And whereas that some of those who bear this auld and honourable name may take scorn that it ariseth from the tilling of the ground, quhilk men account a slavish occupation, yet we ought to honour the pleugh and spade, seeing we all derive our being from our father Adam, whose lot it became to cultivate the earth, in respect of his fall and transgression. Chronicles of the Canongate
-- In this solemn and impressive prayer, in which they make public confession of their sins, and deprecate the judgments due to the transgressions of their fathers, they begin with a profound adoration of God, whose supreme majesty and omnipotence is acknowledged in the creation, preservation, and government of all. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
This time the alleged transgressions involve a violation of constitutional protections that really matter in a democracy.
Two vodkas with soda water later is my only transgression.
Every past or present Israeli transgression is evidence of its wickedness, whereas Arab ones, if they are acknowledged at all, are “understandable.” Think Progress » Gingrich: ‘This Is, In Fact, World War III’ And The U.S. ‘Ought To Be Helping’
And your transgressional fiction sounds really cool! The Panda on Muppet on Porn
He certainly knew what another meant, and did not relish the idea of being blown to kingdom come for his transgressions.
And non-observance does not lead to a state of transgression; it brings one back under the jurisdiction of the law.
For the last six years, he has found himself reviled and disparaged by most of America, with every transgression in and out of the ring adding to the image of an unpleasant human being.
If the radio operator kept his mouth shut, the transgression might not get to the ears of his superiors.
Note, A true penitent is willing to know the worst of himself; and we should all desire to know what our transgressions are, that we may be particular in the confession of them and on our guard against them for the future. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)
The children shall not be punished for the father's transgression" (Daniel Defoe). As it refers to the breaking of a statute.
The process of step-and-stair transgression thus continues until hydrostatic equilibrium is established as the intrusion tapers out at the zero isopach.
Increasing intolerance for transgressions against the rule of biology.
This time the alleged transgressions involve a violation of constitutional protections that really matter in a democracy.
In this taxonomy of transgression, original sin merited less punishment than did actual sins, as noted by the monk William in his debate with the heresiarch Henry of Lausanne (minori pena teneantur). A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries
In each case the scenario was exactly the same: traffic altercations where some minor (in two cases imagined) transgression was blown out of proportion by the Frenchman.
‘O Allah, I swear by Thy Greatness and Thy Glory, I meant not through my disobedience to transgress against Thee; for indeed I am not ignorant of Thee; but my fault is one Thou didst foreordain to me from eternity without beginning; 357 so do Thou pardon my transgression, for indeed I disobeyed Thee of my ignorance!’ The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
The Rabbis learn from the plural “damim” that she saved him from two transgressions: from committing bloodshed, and from having relations with her when she was menstrually impure (BT Megillah loc. cit.). Abigail: Midrash and Aggadah.
Mobiles ringing in the dressing room, lateness and the wrong kit are all transgressions that can lead to coughing up dollars.
And whereas that some of those who bear this auld and honourable name may take scorn that it ariseth from the tilling of the ground, quhilk men account a slavish occupation, yet we ought to honour the pleugh and spade, seeing we all derive our being from our father Adam, whose lot it became to cultivate the earth, in respect of his fall and transgression. Chronicles of the Canongate
Their main transgression involves the use of so-called robo-signers, bank employees who signed foreclosure affidavits without properly checking the required loan documentation. The Stealth Stimulus of Defaulters Living for Free
In the logic of the play, Iona is cast as a politically dangerous figure because of her perverse erotic engagements, although Shelley wisely never particularizes the full range of Iona's so-called perversity; and the ultimate crime that all of Iona's transgressions metaphorizeSwellfoot's "castration" is punished even before it is committed, since Swellfoot calls for the beheading of the Queen before she confronts him directly with her own demands for political power. Shelley
Moreover, the actions of individuals who repeat rather than question, watch out for, punish, and sanction transgressions, lend these norms their strength.
That's a mortal trespass, an unforgivable transgression that must be stopped.
Frequently they convey some Communist moral transgression to the Jewish leaders.
When a sick person died, the tohunga would blame it on the patient, saying they had breached tapu or had committed a spiritual transgression.
Within taboo and transgression the interplay between the profane and the sacred is a dangerous one.
This contravenes the movies' typical treatment of cads, who are usually punished for their moral transgressions or transformed into dullards by the power of love.
All our life we live knowing that God's justice demands satisfaction for our transgression of God's law.
I am not observant and in fact have many, many transgressions to my credit, yet I am wealthy and content with my life.
You mentioned language and its multiple meaning, metaphorical asides, its evocative transgressions and endearing intentionality.
Media organizations need to be punished for their transgressions by whatever means possible.
When Stores could not, they were prone to steal vegetables, melons and poultry from the convicts, a transgression Ross punished as severely as if the larceny were the other way around. Morgan’s Run
The Mich Dem party brain trust is sure that the DNC will seat the delegates, in spite of the transgression of party rules. Archive 2008-01-01
Longshore drift transported sediment from this eroding rocky coastline to these embayments following the culmination of the post-glacial marine transgression some 7 ka ago.
Redemer to be very God and very man, because he was to underlie the punischment due for our transgressiouns, and to present himselfe in the presence of his Fathers Judgment, as in our persone, to suffer for our transgression and inobedience, [662] be death to overcome him that was author of death. The Creeds of the Evangelical Protestant Churches.
One transgression, no matter how minor, and she'll be gone while her footprints are still warm on the floor. THE HUNDREDTH MAN
The double-barrelled question is a clear instance of the transgression of this rule, but in addition there is the case of a question like.
An organic-rich shaly horizon of this age can be traced into continental Europe and possibly into North and South America; the stratigraphy suggests regional transgression and deepening.
Perhaps she might be excused for her transgressions due to the fact that she was born with ataxic cerebral palsy. Lee Brenner: The Top 10 Stories From 2011 Missing From All the Top 10 Lists
There could be no more profound a transgression, for a society whose self-definition is caste, than marrying across caste.
Tales of the candidate's alleged past transgressions have begun springing up.
In all well-attempered governments there is nothing which should be more jealously maintained than the spirit of obedience to law, more especially in small matters; for transgression creeps in unperceived and at last ruins the state, just as the constant recurrence of small expenses in time eats up a fortune. Politics
The first time my own transgressions were revealed to me by this handy gizmo, I nearly swooned from the shame, but we needn’t discuss that. The Case of the Mysterious ¶ or Things Your Creative Writing Instructor Never Told You
This is evidence of a transgression, meaning that as the Bright Angel Shale was being deposited the sea gradually moved landward.
And so he comes, through these various transgressions, into conflict with the mandates of the ethnic group and religion to which he belongs by birth.
My advice, if you permit, would be to consider avoiding succumbing to the natural human proclivity towards racism or even "revanchist" actions (for past, historically racist transgressions made by other groups - which you call "whites") and thereby refraining from posting entries - using strong language - just against any other outside groups indiscriminately, without solid considerations ... Home
I and my kind were cast out, for some transgression we can no longer even recall, and we are still in search of our redemption. NIGHT SISTERS
But in the field of human rights the evidence of heinous transgressions would not even induce a formal reprimand, except when it subserves other interests.
Note 26: William, pp. 47 — 48: "Ex transgressione enim Ade complexio tota fuit debilitata et corrupta in pena peccati." back A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries
So that it may, I confess, give temporal impunity to such as transgress upon this account, but for all that, it can never by so doing warrant the transgression itself; it may indeed indemnify the person, but cannot take away the guilt, which, resulting from the very nature of the action, is inseparable from it. Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. IV.
Also, here, desire and transgression are articulated through a systematic presentation of opposites.
Strambo, and the other intimate friends of Pasquino, having noted in what manner she used the Sage, and this appearing as her utmost refuge, either to acquit or condemne her: in presence of the Judge they smiled thereat, mocking and deriding whatsoever she saide, or did, and desiring (the more earnestly) the sentence of death against her, that her body might be consumed with fire, as a just punishment for her abhominable transgression. The Decameron
Such transgressions exposed the community's food supply to grave peril, for uncleansed ndzhaka would "close the sky" (kupfala tilo), "seize the rain" (kukhoma mpfula) and cause drought that would "kill the land" (kudlaya tiko). Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique
Limestone deposition will then result by retrogradation from the adjoining shelf during continuous transgression.
It is connected with the former of them by the recurrence of the same word, which in the first petition was rendered 'cleanse' -- or, more accurately, 'clear' -- and in this final clause is to be rendered accurately, 'I shall be _clear_ from the great transgression.' Expositions of Holy Scripture Psalms
Because transgression is vice, because we must control our passions, because vice is self-indulgence, because passion can only be controlled by reason, because reason is control, because control is virtue. Stoicism, Sophistry and Sodomy
This would seem to contradict, however, the notion of major transgressions being the much-delayed after-effects of an orogeny.
She's a quintessential bookworm, a ferocious autodidact - someone who, whatever her missteps and transgressions, commands our respect and attention.
Any sense of transgression she might have had was now inextricably fused with a sense of the inevitable naturalness of her actions. DREAMS OF INNOCENCE
Any sense of transgression she might have had was now inextricably fused with a sense of the inevitable naturalness of her actions. DREAMS OF INNOCENCE
He was far too indulgent of players' transgressions and inevitably an element of indiscipline crept into the play.
the boy was punished for the transgressions of his father
The measure was taken in response to security concerns and is not intended to punish inmates for their fellows cons ' transgressions.
The author devotes separate chapters to the different situations in which transgression from the expected norm was most likely to take place.
It he is right, then stage transgressions seemed to have spoken to immediate temptations in diverse ways.
Neogene marine transgressions, palaeogeography and biogeographic transitions on the Thai-Malay Peninsula. Biological diversity in Indo-Burma
When a sick person died, the tohunga would blame it on the patient, saying they had breached tapu or had committed a spiritual transgression.
However, it has so far opened the Eyes of my Understanding, as to know that nothing but a sincere Repentance will attone for my Transgressions. The Lining of the Patch-Work Screen
It is connected with the former of them by the recurrence of the same word, which in the first petition was rendered 'cleanse' -- or, more accurately, 'clear' -- and in this final clause is to be rendered accurately, 'I shall be _clear_ from the great transgression.' Expositions of Holy Scripture Psalms
Debates about ethics have often accompanied well-known, not to say infamous, cases of alleged ethical transgression.
The Cup of Decadence" as transgressional fantasy fiction. "The Cup of Decadence" as transgressional fantasy fiction.
The revelations about Foley are nothing to do with his repressed pent-up "drives" (the steam-boiler analog for human sexuality); they are our peek at privilege and power that the rulers are now obliged to claim "nauseates" them as a way of denying that exploitative, power-trip sex is the norm in this society ... and that these transgressions are an entitlement of their power. Stan Goff: Pyongyang, Foley, and Mass Death
Scientist said that Halong bay has experienced at least 500 million years in various of ancient geographic condition such as orogeny, marine transgression and marine regression. The News is NowPublic.com - NowPublic.com: The News is Now Public
She regards the androgyny, same-sex sexuality, or misogynist attitudes of the various male protagonists in these authors' works as transgressions of the two-gender model.
What worries me at the core, I think, is the idea that a moral dicta imposed around “rape”, proscribing its “casual” use as vulgar, rendering it an act of moral transgression to speak this word flippantly, while it might serve to affirm the gravity of the crime, might at the same time, for that very reason, prime that word for exaptation into the realm of swearing proper. On Profanity: 4
Here the craftsman's labor is a medium of likeness between man and the divine Artifex as well as a means of transgression that, when it overreaches its limit through an impossible copying of what is beyond it, produces the greater unlikeness of the hyper-mimetic hybrid as a secondary, grotesque creation. Archive 2008-02-01
To enact social transgression and a kind of hyperrealism, obscene language fetishizes certain words related to sex; the obscene word substitutes for the body part in question but, in the process, acquires the status of a fetish.
It was the least of his transgressions in a career notable for its paranoia, deceptions, moral vacuum and megalomania.
The measure was taken in response to security concerns and is not intended to punish inmates for their fellows cons ' transgressions.
We slip away, like the deer, before our transgression is noticed.
They are the spirits, the low spirits and melancholy forebodings, of fallen souls that once in human shape night-walked the earth and did the deeds of darkness, now expiating their sins with their wailing hymns or threnodies in the scenery of their transgressions. Walden
I roll in and she fails to introduce me, so I take her aside and upbraid her for this transgression. Get Laid or Die Trying
Are not sin, transgression and iniquity dread diseases that lead to spiritual death?
Rituals of transgression, sensationalist violation and titillating naughtiness became the stock-in-trade of popular news reporting in the late nineteenth century.
She was a stickler for formality and any transgression against the rules and regulations angered her.
How do sexism, heterosexism and homophobia work together to constrain sexuality and gender and to punish transgression of these categories?
There have always been transgressive artworks; transgressions are as old - almost as old - as the rules they violate or the proprieties they offend.
Unprepared for such transgressions, the sort of penances handed out by the confession booths suddenly seemed rather trifling.
When the lovely daughter tries to lay the blame for her own transgression on a bewitchment, Nell and her grandmother suffer terrible consequences from the frenzied folly of a superstitious community.
This state is described in Psalm 51 as the result of transgressions, iniquity, sin, and evil.
History will not remember what illegitimate excuse they used, other than as a derogative footnote; but history will remember their transgression against freedom, and it is upon this that posterity shall judge them. ProWomanProLife » Note to the administration: They’re not backing down
This proficiency is certainly essential in preventing boundary transgressions and violations in treatment, but it is also important in avoiding diagnostic errors of overemphasis or underemphasis.
In an expiatory sacrifice the blood which is shed is regarded as wiping out a transgression.
And therefore it is, that accountableness covers the whole field of human agency, and God holds us responsible for our thoughtless sin, as well as for our deliberate transgression. Sermons to the Natural Man
Per the initiative's blueprint, pastors from around the country purported to exercise their freedoms of speech and religion by endorsing political candidates in brazen violation of the current tax code; they then sent those sermons directly to the IRS to tout their civic transgression. Stuart Whatley: Pulpit Politicking Returns for 2010 Election Cycle
In this way the exorciser proceeds to enumerate an exceedingly long list of sins -- no less than one hundred -- most of which are ethical misdemeanors, while others are merely ceremonial transgressions. The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria
The scandal lies also in the fact that the transgression is visible, appearing like a strange hieroglyph on her face that others contemplate with fear and trepidation.
A miracle is ‘a transgression of a law of nature by a particular volition of the Deity, or by the interposition of some invisible agent’.
But, like I said, what I hate more is people who do not own up to their transgressions.
Neogene marine transgressions, palaeogeography and biogeographic transitions on the Thai-Malay Peninsula. Biological diversity in Indo-Burma
The latter, a series of ferruginous shelly sands, are the only preserved in situ product of the late Miocene-early Pliocene marine transgression.
Transgression of this boundary was the act of a criminal and a heroic nature.
In such a mentality, “wrongness” is understood as transgression, which is understood as deviance from the “natural order”, which is understood in terms of the received wisdom of norms-as-law. Bukiet on Brooklyn Books
Upon the report whereof, Ricciardo becomming likewise a widdower, and grieving extraordinarily for his haynous transgression, penitently betooke himselfe to live in a wildernesse, where (not long after) he ended his dayes. The Decameron
The abusers are a crafty sort, often charming and engaging to the point of distraction, and their transgressions can go unnoticed or be perceived as almost insignificant. Randi Miller: Seeing Red
But this is that universal perfection of God, which, when he exercises [it] in punishing the transgressions of his creatures, is called vindicatory justice; for whatever there be in God perpetually inherent, whatever excellence there be essential to his nature, which occasions his displeasure with sin, and which necessarily occasions this displeasure, this is that justice of which we are speaking. A Dissertation on Divine Justice
Jones undertakes to examine defamation and related ‘expressive transgressions’ such as invasion of privacy and intentional infliction of emotional distress.
Just what turrible transgression did you commit, you wee wicked hoyden? The Devil Wears Plaid
When haemolysis , haemoglobin from the transgression inside the cell, dissolve in plasma, right now haemoglobin carries aerobic ability to lose.
Just as the novel rewards villainous behavior, so it promotes guilty identification that allows the reader to enjoy moral transgression by association.
One admits to a crime, a transgression, not an illness, unless the illness is a crime, and depression is not.
Discipline occurred most often for verbal infractions and social transgressions.
Isaiah assures us that God ‘blots out’ our transgressions and forgets our sin.
Some are legalists who continue to insist that the war was launched without justification in international law and wish to punish those responsible for their transgressions.
Miocene littoral and sublittoral deposits on the western side of the Atlantic showed the continuation of the transgression had begun in earlier times.
Holomisa's "admissions" should be investigated independently by the SAPS, like any other citizen's possible transgressions, the NP said. urger reported on Thursday that i inquiries about the matter to the office of the police commissioner, the SAPS said it had ANC Daily News Briefing
The double-barrelled question is a clear instance of the transgression of this rule, but in addition there is the case of a question like.
Such creative transgressions urge us to abandon the obsession with stylistic consistency and recognisability that trammels, for many viewers, the experience of looking at paintings.
As where a law exacteth a pecuniary mulct of them that take the name of God in vain, the payment of the mulct is not the price of a dispensation to swear, but the punishment of the transgression of a law indispensable. Leviathan
The rest of us are reprimanded for even the smallest transgression, while he can get away with murder.
And when Dr. Martineau talks of the "natural penalties for guilt," and adds that "sin being there, it would be simply monstrous that there should be no suffering and would fully justify the despair which now raises its sickly cry of complaint against the retributory wretchedness of human transgression" (_Study_ II., p. 106), the reply is that there are no such things as "_natural_ penalties for guilt. Theism or Atheism The Great Alternative
Part of the transgression of a sin is using something holy for an unholy purpose.
why do politicians always develop selective amnesia when questioned about their transgressions?
That is true; I John 3:4 says that sin is the transgression of the law, and it is transgressing God's Law that defiles us.
More to the point, the technical distinction between levels of impossibility is simply not that relevant in terms of how these quirks function; temporal or metaphysical, what we're dealing with is the impossible; novum, erratum or chimera are just different flavours of quirk; and, functionally speaking, these different types of transgression play the same way in most readings. Notes on Strange Fiction: Seams
May my life be laid down for the transgressions of such as transgress against Thee, for through them the breath of Thy grace and the fragrance of Thy loving-kindness are made known and diffused amongst men. Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh
If the commandment be true and righteous, every transgressions of the commandment is an error, as grounded upon a mistake; every wicked practice takes rise from some corrupt principle; it is a deviation from the rule we are to work by, the way we are to walk in. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)
_I answer that, _ The term transgression is derived from bodily movement and applied to moral actions. Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province
So, under the assumption that he's a nice guy, I'm willing to forgive Smith's under-interview transgressions and just take his album for what it is: a pretty neat modern psych album.
He declares with regard to the tares, "The tares are the children of the wicked one," [4436] it must be affirmed that He has ascribed all who are of the apostasy to him who is the ringleader of this transgression. ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus
I'm not a priest do not confess your sins and transgressions to me.
A suggestion is implanted while people are in an ‘Alpha state’ to give more hours, work harder, and forgive transgressions such as no bonuses.
To be sure, Pentheus hubristic decrees forbidding the Bacchic rites to take place in his city are transgressions of the natural order, rupturae on a higher level. Archive 2009-06-01
The Cup of Decadence" as transgressional fantasy ... Currently reading and watching.
There is a solemn curse inwrapping the whole wrath annexed to the law, with reference to the transgression thereof; and from this are we wholly at liberty. Of Communion with God the Father, Son and Holy Ghost
Were their offences unsportsmanlike conduct, violent play or, perhaps, a transgression of a philosophical nature? Times, Sunday Times
The pattern of Ashgill brachiopod provincialism can be traced back to the early Caradoc (Nemagraptus gracilis Biozone) during the major global sea level rise and marine transgression.
No good turn will be forgotten, Joe, and no transgression unavenged.
In China's high-context, morally-relative cultural universe, "understatement" -- i.e., knowing when to turn a blind eye to transgression -- is both a skill of advancement and contributor to social order. Tom Doctoroff: Illegal DVDs in China: Here to Stay
A "transgressor" is another word for "sinner" (in Ga 2: 17), for "sin is the transgression of the law. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
At late Cretaceous, resulting from transgression from west to east in Southwestern Tarim Basin, continental clasts decreased eastwardly, while marine facies took dominance.
For two millennia, exogamy was a major transgression for Jews.
Rituals of transgression, sensationalist violation and titillating naughtiness became the stock-in-trade of popular news reporting in the late nineteenth century.
Confront transgressions as they occur with the assumption that your corrections are guidance.
Both times I was belted it was for transgressions committed by other children.
If the transgression is a result of error rather than impulse or intent, the wrongness is not "in" us. The Stain of Sin
To censure when censured and assail the assailer, are grave transgressions in the case of a Brahmana. The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 Books 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18
Such a transgression is probably good for at least a week in the doghouse. 2007 February « Hyperpat’s HyperDay
I don't think it's hard to see how a reader's reaction to the strange may add exactly this sort of boulomaic modality, particularly with Horror, where the strange becomes the uncanny, where the transgression is as much moral as nomological, where the events not only "could not have happened" but "should not have happened Archive 2008-01-01
The rest of us are reprimanded for even the smallest transgression, while he can get away with murder.
Its many civil liberties transgressions include the issuance by the executive branch of National Security Letters a form of administrative subpoena without a court order, and the forbiddance of American citizens from mentioning that they have received one of these letters at the risk of jail. Why Ron Paul Matters
Anna, as she entered the studio, had a sudden sense of transgression. DREAMS OF INNOCENCE
I certainly thought the ending, in which Will 'forgives' his mother for the same transgression that was allegedly his reason for attacking his ex, suggested that when free of the ghosts' influence, Will isn't inclined towards misogyny. The Horror
(and, to flip the story line, it's no wonder the dominatrix is a pornographic and sexual staple - embarassingly literal images of transgression do tend to go hand in hand with the erotic). Feministe
Man's original nature, contaminated by Adam's transgression, would be restored to full glory.
Thou wilt bring eternal doom on all frowardness and transgression, and Thy righteousness will stand revealed in the sight of all Thou hast made.
In Lenin's day, 'reformism' was the ultimate transgression for Communists: now it is their saving grace. Reform or Revolution?
For two millennia, exogamy was a major transgression for Jews.
A companion rule will also allow officials to move a driver 10 places back on the grid as punishment for driving transgressions in the previous race.
I relish the roots of the genre, and agree with James that it's a vital part of what makes sf and, indeed, f, a transgressional thrill. Why Science Fiction Authors Can't Win
The orgiastic reaches a licentious, contagious and unrestrainable climax in the festal - those moments occasioning transgressions of imposed morality.
In many circles of the Qawwal, tribute is paid to the mystic in words that entail transgression in terms of polytheism.
I've done as little gardening as possible since I was a boy because my housemaster used to punish my transgressions by making me go and spend hours weeding his garden.
Are gay students going to be the only students whose transgressions would be kept secret from their parents?
Much transgressional fiction deals with searches for self-identity, inner peace and/or personal freedom. "The Cup of Decadence" as transgressional fantasy fiction.
But transgression, by definition, requires a firm set of rules.
We slip away, like the deer, before our transgression is noticed.
In researching and surfing this morning it occurred to me that what I have in mind for "Cups" is a mutant hybrid of historical fiction, occult mysticism and transgressional fiction. "The Cup of Decadence" as transgressional fantasy fiction.
Honestly, because of the focus of my own fiction writing (horror & transgressional fiction — ala Marquis de Sade — without moral boundaries in many cases), my overly-conservative teachers have tried to force their moral superiority on me. Three Techniques to Avoid Being a Boring Writer | Write to Done
Ms. Harrison has hit upon something more biblically abhorrent even than incest: She's discovered brotherly betrayal, an archetypal transgression intimately associated with the word blazoned on the cover of this novel. A Novel of Brotherly Betrayal, By a Sexpert on Family Matters
Aside from one transgression last summer, he has handled himself in a manner that has made him a role model for many people.
In thus reifying as law what had been done in practice, the Court gave legal sanction to further transgressions against the remaining Native American communities.
That does not make the transgressions which have been brought to light in the United States, less bad or more pardonable, nor do I mean to offer it as an example of how such things should be handled, but it does bear a certain relevancy from the point of view of "relativity. An International Survey
Many of the transgressions recorded in said credit records are simple oversights or no fault of the transgressor.

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