On stage, he becomes an archetypal embodiment of the debased American dream. |
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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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Economic transactions would then be conducted through barter rather than via the medium of a debased script. |
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It could be the ultimate alchemy, at least in the debased sense of transmuting the elements. |
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It was fairly easy for laymen to distinguish debased coins from sound coins. |
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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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The letter testifies to the debased level of what passes for intellectual life in the United States. |
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For many in the new generation it has become a debased form of personal power seeking. |
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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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Even in the long debased hyperbole of historic moments in the Northern Ireland peace process, this was a monumental announcement. |
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For it threatens freedom in the name of the most debased conception of democracy. |
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They are simply devaluing further the already debased coin of Irish politics. |
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The US financed the war through printing extra dollars and so it debased its own currency. |
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Are standards of taste in music, art, or entertainment being raised, maintained or debased? |
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Their minds are debased and evirated by effeminacy, lasciviousness, and fondness for loose pleasures. |
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It wouldn't do to mix their blue blood with the debased genes of commoners! |
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It should be noted that the coinage was often debased and strategically revalued. |
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But you abused, debased and threatened that woman, threatening her and demeaning her. |
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It describes how every human value is debased and turned into purely cash terms. |
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These are the sort of values that Australian people cherish, are entitled to but are being debased by this government. |
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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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But it does so through the methods of politics, however corrupted and debased these have become in our country. |
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It was reprehensible the way they debased the institutions of government to fund the '96 campaign. |
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This skewed history is the result of an oral culture being debased and devalued through the past century. |
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Public life has been debased by the rancid culture of personality politics. |
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The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible. |
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Sayles shows us characters peddling debased versions of history and culture put to the service of marketing. |
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He is representative of the debased and semi-criminal character of the oligarchy that rules the country. |
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His message spoke directly to a people who had been utterly debased by the country's white-supremacist society. |
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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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Only the debased American media could uncritically repeat such outrageous claims. |
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Concepts highly prized by Puritans still exist in debased form in American mass culture. |
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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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The monetary system of western Europe had evolved towards monometallism, at first based on an increasingly debased gold coinage and in due course on silver. |
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The whole world of criticism and reviewing has been debased because the critic now is pressured to perform as part publicist. |
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Latinas are debased by their poverty, thus making them accessible to any man with a few bucks. |
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It really has become an increasingly debased process of making art. |
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The original plan has been too debased for it to be rehabilitated, and eugenically speaking we are in uncharted waters. |
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The tales in the Faustbuch were narrated crudely and were further debased with clodhopping humour at the expense of Faust's dupes. |
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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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Rather, it assumes a more traditional role in which art becomes a privatized sphere of reality, seen in opposition to a world debased by common values. |
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This is Hindi cinema at its most debased, debauch, dreadful. |
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No one could have predicted how debased higher education would become. |
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Most men are apt to take texts on trust, even to prefer a familiar version, however debased or unauthentic, to the true one. |
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The roundels contain geometric fretwork, alternating with a debased blazon. |
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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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He was a born leader who feared nobody, debased himself before no one and never lost his sense of humour. |
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How that could possibly be, given all the debased fiat currency sloshing around, the Yes camp has not explained. |
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Clearly, the government's actions destroyed families, reputations and communities, and debased our moral sensibility. |
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Ceramic lamp with four nozzles and a large handle, which has a debased animal's head at the end. |
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Human life is being debased by despots, dictators and fundamentalists of all types. |
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My Holy Heart is crying for everything that has been so readily debased during the centuries that followed My First Coming on Man's Earth. |
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They take the risk because they find it personally intolerable that the humanity of others is debased. |
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More and more often, in a growing number of countries, individual liberties are violated and the notion of human dignity is debased. |
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The rim is decorated with a debased wave border, executed in blue and black. |
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Chardonnay, perhaps one of the most debased varieties in the world, here brings delicious elegance to wines of this region. |
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What followed was a spiralling proliferation of increasingly spurious credit instruments denominated in a debased currency. |
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If being different is a purely formal goal of the design, then the unifying elements are debased. |
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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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We see the bad with the good, the debased and decadent with the sound and vital. |
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And it makes you wonder if journalism has not been so debased that foreign policy has become impossible. |
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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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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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Now it's for chuckleheads and debased drunks the world over. |
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After that time the exiled Empire of Nicea continued to strike a debased hyperpyron nomisma. |
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The new member states of the Council of Europe offer an enormous wealth of cultural treasures. This offer should not be squandered nor its value debased. |
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Judicial systems debased by bribery undermine confidence in governance by facilitating corruption across all sectors of government, starting at the helm of power. |
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Efforts to revive the Byzantine economy only resulted in inflation and a debased gold coinage. |
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Woman is dethroned as the primary and supreme sex, debased into inseminable hetaera. |
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I've seen it debased four times during my lifetime. |
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It was widely believed that Wood would need to flood Ireland with debased coinage in order to make a profit. |
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Given that they've been marrying now for almost two years, to what extent are you of the opinion that the institution has been debased since, following the theory that you're espousing? |
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In order to maintain his enlarged military he debased the Roman currency drastically. |
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The value that people attributed to coins was originally based upon the value of the metal unless they were token issues or had been debased. |
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Nevertheless, the following year he debased the denarius substantially because of rising military expenditures. |
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We are living in an era in which politics has become debased and in which democracies suffer from a lack of political commitment on the part of their citizens. |
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Social morality has declined and our educational system is debased. |
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It seems absurd to fear that workers will be debased by automation. |
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Over the years, the penny was gradually debased until by the 16th century it contained about a third the silver content of a proper troy 24 grain pennyweight. |
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The Crown had profited a small amount in 1526 when Wolsey had put England onto a gold, rather than silver, standard, and had debased the currency slightly. |
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Emperors of the Antonine and Severan dynasties overall debased the currency, particularly the denarius, under the pressures of meeting military payrolls. |
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In December, 1988, a group of debased silver diobols, of the types found at the Black Sea settlements of Mesembria and Apollonia Pontika, appeared in the ancient coin market. |
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Instability caused economic deterioration, and there was a rapid rise in inflation as the government debased the currency in order to meet expenses. |
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By this time, the solidus was worth 275,000 increasingly debased denarii. |
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