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Aubrey has been criticised for his evident credulousness in this and other works ; on the other hand, he knew Thomas Hobbes, Bacon's fellow-philosopher and friend.
Nicolette Jones of The Times UK said ' Pratchett ’ s one-liners, the comic dialogue of the Feegles, the satire about teenagers and the credulousness of ordinary folk, and the reworking of the Orpheus myth, make for a characteristically entertaining mix.

distaste and for
During the next five years liberal leaders in the United States sank in the cumulative confusion attendant upon and manifested in a negative policy of Containment -- and the bitterest irony -- enforced and enforceable only by threat of a weapon that we felt the greatest distaste for but could not abandon: the atom bomb.
Despite his personal distaste for obesity ( `` disgusting '' ), Dr. Keys has only an incidental interest in how much Americans eat.
there had been lessons in French from a small Polish nobleman with a really profound distaste for his pupils ; ;
Surprisingly, considering the later French distaste for castrati they certainly existed in France at this time also, being known of in Paris, Orléans, Picardy and Normandy, though they were not abundant: the King of France himself had difficulty in obtaining them.
Though he maintains his distaste for abortions, he continues Dr. Larch's legacy of honoring the choice of his patients, and he dreams of the day when abortions are free, legal, and safe, so he'll no longer feel obliged to offer them.
Echols and Baldwin were close friends, and bonded over their similar tastes in music and fiction, and over their shared distaste for the prevailing cultural climate of West Memphis, situated in the Bible Belt.
Freud suggests that Hamlet's apparent " distaste for sexuality "— articulated in his " nunnery " conversation with Ophelia — accords with this interpretation.
Kemp also noted a distaste for the vast fundraising necessary for a Presidential campaign.
" Baum mentions his characters ' distaste for a Hopi snake dance in Aunt Jane's Nieces and Uncle John, but also deplores the horrible situation of Indian Reservations.
In Justice League # 2, Batman notes that he and Superman have at least one thing in common: both of them speak openly of their distaste for Luthor.
In 1941, the faculty illustrated its distaste with Kaplan by penning a unanimous letter to the professor of homiletics, expressing complete disgust with Kaplan's The New Haggadah for the Passover Seder.
Immediately after the release of the debut album in 1974, Rutsey was forced to leave the band due to health difficulties ( stemming from diabetes ) and his general distaste for touring.
Thucydides admired Pericles, approving of his power over the people and showing a marked distaste for the demagogues who followed him.
In Spain, distaste for the treaty was even greater ; the courtiers were unified in opposing partition, but were divided on whether the throne should go to a Habsburg or a Bourbon.
Although he reserved a distaste for abstract and dogmatic religions founded around personality cults, he was attracted to the type of people he met at the Golden Dawn.
These changes reflected Pound's distaste for Victorian prosody.
Later at the bar, owner Nat voices his distaste for how Don treats Helen and another girl who hangs out at the bar.
In Granger's autobiography he writes of his distaste for the film's script, while Kelly later confided to Hedda Hopper, " It wasn't pleasant.
# The Quadruple Alliance of March 1813 ( renewed on November 20, 1815 ); between the United Kingdom, Austria, Prussia, and Russia, aimed at upholding the settlement following the Napoleonic Wars: with France's admission in 1818, it became the Quintuple Alliance, though British government distaste for the other allies ' reactionary policies meant that it lapsed into ineffectiveness after the mid-1820s.
Russia continues to have a strong public distaste for Western BMD initiatives, presumably because proprietary operative BMD systems could exceed their technical and financial resources, and therefore degrade their larger military standing and sense of security in a post-MAD environment.
" Linking the concept of indigo children with the distaste for the use of Ritalin to control ADHD, Robert Todd Carroll states " The hype and near-hysteria surrounding the use of Ritalin has contributed to an atmosphere that makes it possible for a book like Indigo Children to be taken seriously.
Another group, the Slavophiles, enthusiastically favored the Slavs and their culture and customs, and had a distaste for westerners and their culture and customs.

distaste and reliance
Although remembered as a major force in British psychiatry in the post-war years, his enthusiasm for discredited treatments such as insulin shock therapy and deep sleep treatment, his distaste for all forms of psychotherapy, and his reliance on dogma rather than clinical evidence have left him as a controversial figure whose work is seldom cited in modern psychiatric texts.

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Expected to make use of devices with which listeners could press a button to indicate whether they liked or disliked a particular piece of music, Adorno bristled with distaste and astonishment: “ I reflected that culture was simply the condition that precluded a mentality that tried to measure it .” Thus Adorno suggested using individual interviews to determine listener reactions and, only three months after meeting Lasarzfeld, completed a 160-page memorandum on the Project ’ s topic, “ Music in Radio .” Adorno was primarily interested in how the musical material was affected by its distribution through the medium of radio and thought it imperative to understand how music was affected by its becoming part of daily life.
because the first one is that of logic … and as I cannot object to the premise " that all people have the right to eat ", I must defer to all the conclusions …. The second of the two compelling voices, of which I am talking, is even more powerful than the first, because it is the voice of hatred, the hatred I dedicate to this common enemy that constitutes the most distinctive contrast to communism and that will oppose the angry giant already at the first instance – I am talking about the party of the so-called advocates of nationality in Germany, about those false patriots whose love for the fatherland only exists in the shape of imbecile distaste of foreign countries and neighbouring peoples and who daily pour their bile especially on France ".
When William left for Ireland in June 1690 Marlborough became commander of all troops and militia in England, and was appointed a member of the Council of Nine to advise Mary on military matters in the King's absence ; but she made scant effort to disguise her distaste at his appointment – " I can neither trust or esteem him ," she wrote to William.
Other noteworthy topics that appear frequently in Extropist writings is the focus on equal rights for LGBT couples and individuals and a general distaste for organized religiosity.
His distaste for Aberhart's social credit government — and in particular its contention, which Brownlee viewed as unfair, that the UFA had left the government bankrupt — did not prevent him from advising it behind the scenes on a number of issues, most notably Alberta's submission to the Rowell-Sirois Commission, The Case for Alberta.
At the outset of the administration, Tumulty convinced Wilson, who was known for his distaste of the press, to hold news conferences on a regularized schedule, sometimes as much as twice every week.
Marx's distaste for Hyndman was shared by Friedrich Engels, who succeeded his close friend as his literary executor at Marx's death on 14 March 1883.
In fact it has been argued that to prevent some pathologies related to the time inconsistency of monetary policy implementation ( in particular excessive inflation ), the head of a central bank should have a larger distaste for inflation than the rest of the economy on average.
He retired shortly afterwards, owing to his distaste for the lawless habits of his comrades in the irregulars, and after long waiting in poverty for a regular commission he was at last made a captain in one of the frontier regiments, spending the next ten years in half-military, half-administrative work in the Karlovac district on the Military Frontier.
Opponents showed their distaste for the regime by hanging signs on the gates that read: " Home of the King's whore ".
He referenced this aesthetic distaste when he praised the poet Antonio Machado, in the preface to his 1983 translation of Machado's poetry, Times Alone, for " his emphasis on the suffering of others rather than his own ".
He has revealed that his personal distaste for the anti-immigration Sweden Democrats party is based on his partly African ancestry.
Much ink has been spilled on Usamah ibn Munqidhs supposed distaste of European medicine, but as anyone who reads the entire text of his autobiography will notice, his first-hand experience with European medicine is positive-he describes a European doctor successfully treating infected wounds with vinegar and recommends a treatment for scrofula demonstrated to him by an unnamed " Frank ".
Due to a general distaste for Democratic nominee Grover Cleveland, and the North Carolina Democratic Party's ruling that no voter could vote on a " split ticket ", Butler led a mass exodus of Alliance members and followers to the Populist, or " People's Party " in 1892.
By the time the band finished the recording of its debut EP, Come on Down, Turner decided to leave the group, citing his distaste with Ament and Gossard's heavy metal leanings.
He wrote in terms making clear his distaste for the too-publicised emphasis on a small part of the territory.
In 1948, he travelled to South Africa to cover the England cricket team's tour for the BBC, and openly voiced his distaste for the country's apartheid policy., When asked to mark his race on an immigration form-whether " white, Indian, coloured, black ", Arlott wrote " human ".
Only six days after their introduction, on May 12, Rowland Hill wrote that ; I fear we shall have to substitute some other stamp for that design by Mulready ... the public have shown their disregard and even distaste for beauty, and within two months a decision had been made to replace the Mulready designed stationery.
By the time the band finished the recording of its debut EP, Come on Down, Turner decided to leave the group, citing his distaste with Ament and Gossard's heavy metal leanings.
* Hugh /" Shug " portrayed by Sean Scanlan: A relative of the Nesbitts, Hugh feigns Englishness or at least pretends to be a middle-class Scot from Berwick-upon-Tweed due to Scottish cultural cringe and the distaste displayed at anything working-class and / or Scottish on the part of his wife Phoebe
The pak ' ma ' ra took on the role as couriers for the ISA Rangers because of the distaste other species had for them, and their tendency to be on every major world in numbers but be ignored.

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