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This shameless and scandalous boy died in Egypt when the court was there ; and forthwith his Imperial Majesty issued out an order or edict strictly requiring and commanding his loving subjects to acknowledge his departed page a deity and to pay him his quota of divine reverences and honours as such: a resolution and act which did more effectually publish and testify to the world how entirely the Emperor's unnatural passion survived the foul object of it ; and how much his master was devoted to his memory, than it recorded his own crime and condemnation, immortalised his infamy and shame, and bequeathed to mankind a lasting and notorious specimen of the true origin and extraction of all idolatry.
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shameless and boy
After the competition was won, the boy who had lost then started to cry, which caused the tabloids to pounce on the show believing it to be shameless.
shameless and when
In the 1771 German novel Geschichte des Fräuleins von Sternheim by Sophie von La Roche, a high-minded character complains about the newly introduced waltz among aristocrats thus: " But when he put his arm around her, pressed her to his breast, cavorted with her in the shameless, indecent whirling-dance of the Germans and engaged in a familiarity that broke all the bounds of good breeding — then my silent misery turned into burning rage.
Few will now grudge Tiberius, when his whole action as a ruler is taken into account, such a title as salutaris princeps, which seemed to a former generation a specimen of shameless adulation.
In Late Antiquity, the term " shameless finger " is explained in the Etymologiae of Isidore of Seville with reference to its frequent use when accusing someone of a " shameful action ".
Wycherley's efforts to bring to the Duke of Buckingham's notice the case of Samuel Butler shows that the writer of even such heartless plays as The Country Wife may have generous impulses, while his defence of Buckingham, when the duke in his turn fell into trouble, show that the inventor of so shameless a fraud as that which forms the pivot of The Plain Dealer may in actual life possess that passion for fair play which is seldom believed to be an English quality.
On 6 February 2011, the Irish Mail on Sunday committed a " shameless " crime when it allowed copies of its newspaper go on sale with an imitation Sunday Tribune cover.
( meaning that she only took lovers when she knew she was already pregnant by her husband ) Julia was equally celebrated for her beauty, intelligence and her shameless profligacy but mentions that " she abused the indulgence of fortune no less than that of her father.
Zhang Yiwu, a Peking University specialist in modern culture, explains, “ In one sense, the phenomenon of Sister Lotus is the victory of common people .” However, others question her popularity, wondering how she became an overnight sensation when her fame is based upon what they view as shameless self-humiliation, and criticizing her for being a negative influence on Chinese youth.
shameless and was
After the death of her first husband, Agrippina tried to make shameless advances to the future emperor Galba, who showed no interest in her and was devoted to his wife Aemilia Lepida.
Christopher Hitchens was offended by the notion of Clinton as the first black president noting " we can still define blackness by the following symptoms: alcoholic mothers, under-the-bridge habits ... the tendency to sexual predation and shameless perjury about the same ".
Atta's own family moved into such an apartment block in 1990, which to him was " a shabby symbol of Egypt's haphazard attempts to modernize and its shameless embrace of the West.
During the sede vacante of over two months, " shameless trafficking in sacred things was indulged in.
This " pornocracy " was an age with women in power: Theodora, whom Liutprand characterized as a " shameless whore ... exercised power on the Roman citizenry like a man " and her daughter Marozia, the mother of Pope John XI and reputed to be the mistress of Sergius III, largely upon a remark by Liutprand.
He wrote that Lakoff was condescending and deplored Lakoff's " shameless caricaturing of beliefs " and his " faith in the power of euphemism ".
: this august harlot was shameless enough to prefer a common mat
Time magazine noted that Davis was compulsively watchable even while criticizing her acting technique, summarizing her performance in Dead Ringer ( 1964 ) with the observation, " her acting, as always, isn't really acting: it's shameless showing off.
She married Henry Stewart on 3 March 1528, ignoring the pious warnings of her brother that marriage was ' divinely ordained ' and his protests against the ' shameless sentence sent from Rome.
She was the daughter of the Roman consul Theophylact, Count of Tusculum, and of Theodora, the real power in Rome, whom Liutprand of Cremona characterized as a " shameless whore ... exercised power on the Roman citizenry like a man.
Although often talked about as a shameless exhibition of her sexual conquests, it was rather a piece about intimacy in a more general sense, although the title invites misinterpretation.
In Latin, the middle finger was the digitus impudicus, meaning the " shameless, indecent or offensive finger ".
The same year, he accompanied Princess Henrietta to Paris to marry the Duke of Orleans, but made such shameless advances to her that he was recalled.
Though Clampett's contribution to the Warner Brothers animation legacy was considerable and inarguable, he has been criticized by his peers as " a shameless self-promoter who provoked the wrath of his former Warner's colleagues in later years, for allegedly claiming credit for ideas which were not his.
In private life and in the means employed for gaining his ends, Louvois was unscrupulous and shameless.
Piłsudski felt the agreement was a shameless and short-sighted political calculation.
" LaBute changed Roland's nationality from British to American, in what he denied was " shameless pandering to the audience .... in part, it was more comfortable for me to write Roland that way.
However he was wholly responsible for a ruinous fiscal policy which decisively weakened the position of Saxony within the Holy Roman Empire between 1733 and 1763 ; for the mistaken ambition which led Frederick Augustus II to become a candidate for the throne of Poland, which led to a civil war and did sustainable damage to the Polish sovereignty ; for the engagements into which he entered in order to secure the support of Emperor Charles VI of Habsburg ; for the shameless and ill-timed tergiversations of Saxony during the War of the Austrian Succession ; for the intrigues which entangled the Electorate in the alliance against King Frederick II of Prussia, which led to the outbreak of the Seven Years ' War ; and for the waste and want of foresight which left the bankrupt country utterly unprepared to resist the immediate attack of the Prussian king.
The most infamous example was a piece on an allegation of a homosexual relationship involving Prince Charles and the British tabloids ' shameless use of innuendo and euphemisms to spread the rumor while avoiding libelous statements.
He hid righteousness from himself, and was a villain at heart ; he delighted in the practice of the worst vices ; he was shameless and vile, obstinate, stupid, and unfriendly, cultivating only the intimacy of such as himself.
Violet would insult him viciously and with the utmost cruelty, and was very remorseless and even shameless about it.
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That is, of course, a shameless lie ; however it is thought out very cleverly and would, if brought out in the course of a public trial, certainly become the main argument of enemy propaganda.
Stephen Fry said of Charles Prentiss, " He's a brute of a man, out to win, with no morals ; he's completely shameless.
The " yes " campaign was also viewed as having the support of the popular Australian media ; British politician and journalist Bill Deedes said in The Daily Telegraph in 1999: " I have rarely attended elections in any country, certainly not a democratic one, in which the newspapers have displayed more shameless bias.
" without face ") " audacious ; wanton ; shameless " as " the most severe condemnation that can be made of a person " and buyao lian 不要臉 ( lit.
" don't want face ") " shameless ; selfishly inconsiderate " as " a serious accusation meaning that ego does not care what society thinks of his character, that he is ready to obtain benefits for himself in defiance of moral standards.
" face thick ") or houyan 厚顏 " thick-skinned ; brazen ; shameless ; impudent "
First, the lexicon antithetically modifies all three " face " words with hou 厚 " thick ; deep ; great " and bao or bo 薄 " thin ; slight ; weak " to describe "( in ) sensitivity to prestige ", for example, mianpi hou " thick-skinned ; shameless " and mianpi bao " thin-skinned ; diffident.
That is, of course, a shameless lie ; however it is thought out very cleverly and would, if brought out in the course of a public trial, certainly become the main argument of enemy propaganda.
shameless and issued
A press release issued by the Prime Minister of the Republic of the Congo stated that, "... in order to pay a tribute to this great man, now vanished from the scene, and to his colleagues, all of whom have fallen victim to the shameless intrigues of the great financial Powers of the West ... the Government has decided to proclaim Tuesday, 19 September 1961, a day of national mourning.
shameless and out
The paranoid tone of the writing, shameless personal attacks, and naming of names seems like something out of the mid-50s but as a historical artifact is much more than just a novelty.
shameless and order
The Duke is furious with Glencora, who has disobeyed his explicit order not to interfere in the election, but his strong sense of personal honour forces him to give in to Lopez's shameless and desperate demands.
shameless and him
His appearance at the start of the play is not just a coincidence but a godsend ( kata theon, line 147 ), the shameless pranks that enable him to defeat Paphlagonian were suggested to him by the goddess Athena ( 903 ), he attributes his victory to Zeus, god of the Greeks ( 1253 ), and he compares himself to a god at the end ( 1338 ).
Kriegel-Valrimont argues " not only do we owe him nothing, but this a shameless falsification of History, to award him any merit.
(" Lalage dedicates a votive offering to the God of the erect penis, bringing shameless pictures from the books of Elephantis, and begs him to try and imitate with her the variety of intercourse of the figures in the illustrations.
Then he began recklessly to utter the most shameless sayings and the most unseemly and extravagant jests, whereby he obtained innumerable gifts and presents, which none dared to pose and contend with him.
Gregory had an interest in journalism, produced a regular newsletter while at university and went on to do freelance work for BBC Radio 5 Live before " shameless flirting in a job interview " helped him gain his first full-time job with the BBC as 5 Live's Science Specialist.
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