ellauri051.html on line 358: The tendency in savages to imagine that natural objects and agencies are animated by spiritual or living essences, is perhaps illustrated by a little fact which I once noticed: my dog, a full grown and very sensible animal, was lying on the lawn during a hot and still day; but at a little distance a slight breeze occasionally moved an open parasol, which would have been wholly disregarded by the dog, had any one stood near it. As it was, every time that the parasol slightly moved, the dog growled fiercely and barked. He must, I think, have reasoned to himself in a rapid and unconscious manner, that movement without any apparent cause indicated the presence of some strange living agent, and no stranger had a right to be on his territory. (Darwin)
ellauri060.html on line 955: After Silverfish lost his face at alt-right, another hooknosed greedy Shylock cobbled together MeWe, a social networking app that claimed to fiercely protect user privacy. The genesis of the name, says Weinstein, is exactly what it sounds like: “My life is composed of me and then my ‘we'. Me and my wee 'thing' love our name. We get a lot of thumbs up on our brand: Make America Habitually Great."
ellauri064.html on line 79: Benjamin maintained a fiercely productive focus on his intellectual mission throughout his life, despite repeatedly complaining of ‘grand-scale defeats’ and lows. After his request for divorce from Dora Pollak was granted in 1932, he suffered 10 paralysing days during which he seriously prepared suicide. Suicidal thoughts endured. He was an elegant, cultivated man who oozed old-world charm, exerting attraction on women but not always enough to give him cunt. Asja Lacis, the Latvian Communist Director of Children's Theatre in the USSR, twice refused, as did later lover Anna Maria Blaupot ten Cate. Lacis suffered relapsing mental illness and was hospitalised with hallucinations when Benjamin rushed to Moscow in 1926, at the brink of Stalinisation. His luminous Moscow Diary records his frustrating two-month experience.
ellauri089.html on line 87: Ginny undoubtedly served as a model for many of his intelligent, fiercely independent female characters. She was a chemist and rocket test engineer, and held a higher rank in the Navy than Heinlein himself. She was also an accomplished college athlete, earning four letter words.
ellauri107.html on line 246: In surveying Billy, “sometimes [Claggart’s] melancholy expression would have in it a touch of soft yearning, as if [he] could even have loved Billy but for fate and ban.” Evidently, Claggart has not fully disguised his private appreciation of Billy; but, because he believes something forbids any future for such feelings, he hardens his heart more and more fiercely toward the object of his desire. What “fate” and what “ban” does his misguided imagination perceive? Do their roles on the ship or elsewhere in society somehow doom any intimacy between them? Or does Claggart just presume Billy could never reciprocate his feelings? Might the Master at Arms simply despise sexuality in general and homosexuality in particular and, as a result, find himself driven all the more mad by his uncontrollable “yearning”? Whatever the accurate diagnosis, it is clear that Claggart distorts any positive feelings he possesses for Billy into negative ones with terrible consequences.
ellauri142.html on line 211: If you’re interested in membership, be prepared to be a fiercely loyal member, because new initiates are still sworn to the same rites and secrecy as Scotland’s William Schaw and former President George Washington.
ellauri159.html on line 748: While the prevailing view among anthropologists was long that hunter/gatherer tribes were very peaceful — bucolic, noble savages — many modern researchers like Wrangham, Napoleon Chagnon, and Steven Pinker convincingly argue that just the opposite is true. Amongst premodern peoples who lived in proximity to neighboring tribes, there is strong evidence that conflict was in fact continual and quite bloody. Primitive human males literally aped their ancestors — forming small gangs, competing for status, and fiercely maintaining boundaries. In the few tribes that did allow women to take part in raiding parties, just like as with the chimpanzees, typically only one or two childless women would choose to come along.
ellauri333.html on line 370: Mahatma Gandhi fiercely opposed a separate electorate for untouchables, saying he feared that such an arrangement would "divide the Hindu community." LOL.Vitun ruipelo! Aina kun asiat ei menneet sen mielen mukaan se aloitti nälkälakon ja pidätti henkeä. Kuka välittää?
ellauri389.html on line 79: In fact it was both the soil and a mastery of firing techniques, bolstered by a fiercely protectionist economy, that maintained Chinese porcelain superiority for so long. For much of the eighteenth century, British porcelain manufacturers were unable to replicate the intense heats required to properly fire porcelain. In addition, China further strained British market development by requiring all payment to be in specie and by remaining closed to foreign traders. As a result, when in the late eighteenth century the firing process was finally mastered by domestic china makers such as Wedgwood, Minton, and Spode, China's fierce restrictions against import trade still prevented the British competitors from threatening the supremacy of Chinese industry. A British mission to open China, for example, was stalled as late as 1816. Ironically, this disadvantageous balance of trade between Britain and China actually added to porcelain's appeal.
ellauri490.html on line 131: Despite its House passage, the bill was fiercely criticized for violating civil liberties. Opponents, including the ACLU and many legal scholars, argued it violated:
ellauri494.html on line 258: This swinger of a Moby Dick had a "complex" relationship with Emerson's ideas. While Melville acknowledged Emerson’s intellect, he fiercely rejected his relentless optimism regarding human nature.
ellauri494.html on line 271: Andrews Norton, a prominent Harvard theologian, fiercely attacked Emerson in print, calling his address "the latest form of infidelity." For decades afterward, the conservative academic and religious elite viewed Emerson not as a genius, but as a dangerous radical preaching self-absorbed nonsense.
ellauri501.html on line 631: 1. The Nearsighted Journalist (The Mockery of Euclides da Cunha)The Real Person: Euclides da Cunha was a brilliant, highly politically engaged civil engineer and journalist. He went to Canudos, realized the state was committing an atrocious massacre against poor people, and wrote a masterpiece (Os Sertões) to fiercely denounce the government.
ellauri501.html on line 645: Meanwhile Gabo fiercely defended his socialist beliefs, stating that his goal was always about creating “a government which would make the poor happy.” He viewed Llosa’s right-wing transformation as a betrayal of Latin America's working class and a submission to Western imperialism. Which was exactly what it was.
ellauri505.html on line 298: Albert Burgh (1675), a former pupil turned zealous Catholic, wrote a public letter fiercely lambasting Spinoza, calling his philosophy a "mretched delusion" and pleading with him to throw off his "monstrous errors."
ellauri507.html on line 147: Unlike Kafka, García Márquez had a robust, highly functional social and romantic life. He was a charismatic journalist, a massive music lover, a close friend to world leaders, and was happily married to his wife, Mercedes Benz, for 56 years. Mercedes Barcha was fiercely protective of her husband´s legacy and their domestic life. She acted as the family´s chief of staff and gatekeeper. She never publicly spoke about or acknowledged her husband´s affairs or any marital discord, preferring absolute discretion. Only after her death did it come out that Gabo had fucked up an extramarital daughter behind her back.
xxx/ellauri103.html on line 283: I made this same point in relation to gender in Melbourne last week: both as writers and as people, we should be seeking to push beyond the constraining categories into which we have been arbitrarily dropped by birth. If we embrace narrow group-based identities too fiercely, we cling to the very cages in which others would seek to trap us. We pigeonhole ourselves. We limit our own notion of who we are, and in presenting ourselves as one of a membership, a representative of our type, an ambassador of an amalgam, we ask not to be seen. I have done my best to stretch my female identity, and after years of strenuous stretching it is in fact almost as long already as that of my drummer boy's.
xxx/ellauri139.html on line 1079: During his trial, he fiercely defended his crimes as a valid protest against social injustice. He turned the judicial proceedings into a theatrical event and his prison cell into a salon. He made a lasting impression upon French society and upon several writers, such as Balzac and Dostoevsky.
xxx/ellauri199.html on line 1061: Writing in The Guardian, the political journalist Gaby Hinsliff described Strange Death as "gentrified xenophobia" and "Chapter after chapter circles around the same repetitive themes: migrants raping and murdering and terrorising; paeans to Christianity; long polemics about how Europe is too ´exhausted by history´ and colonial guilt to face another battle, and is thus letting itself be rolled over by invaders fiercely confident in their own beliefs", while also pointing out that Murray offers little definition of the European culture he claims is under threat. Pankaj Mishra´s review in The New York Times described the book as "a handy digest of far-right clichés". In The Intercept, Murtaza Hussain criticized the "relentlessly paranoid tenor" of Murray´s work and said that its claims of mass crime perpetuated by immigrants were "blinkered to the point of being propaganda", while noting the book´s appeal to the far right. In Middle East Eye, Georgetown professor Ian Almond called the book "a staggeringly one-sided flow of statistics, interviews and examples, reflecting a clear decision to make the book a rhetorical claim that Europe is doomed to self-destruction".
xxx/ellauri235.html on line 787: Up jumped the cunning spider, and fiercely held her fast. Kiero hämähäkki hyppäsi, ja verkkoihinsa kietoi sen.
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xxx/ellauri492.html on line 168: Instead, sever the emotional ties that bind you to him. Accept that he may be a cowpat in your family dynamic. You are not responsible for his happiness, and his happiness doesn’t define your worth. Prioritize as usual your own emotional well-being and health. Invest in activities that bring you joy, nurture relationships that nourish your soul, and practice self-satisfaction fiercely. It’s up to the adult child of the narcissist to set boundaries, seek support, and prioritize communication to safeguard the marriage. If you question whether your father-in-law is a narcissist, trust your instincts.
xxx/ellauri506.html on line 317: Originally she played in the Pro-Zelenskyy & Pro-Western team. 2019–2022, Mendel was a central figure on Zelenskyy’s team. She managed his international image, coordinated with Western media, and fiercely defended his administration. Even after leaving her post in late 2021, she published a memoir in 2022 titled The Fight of Our Lives, which heavily praised Zelenskyy as a "breath of fresh air" leading Ukraine's battle for democracy. But even this much bottom licking did not get her status back.
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