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sullied
1. Performing ―good‖ deeds for their own sake because it is good to do so does not address the question: by what conventional standards are such acts of goodness, good to begin with; and assuming that they are, whether the ―Will to Goodness‖ is driven by some inherent factor; that is to say, an (essential) moral goodness that resides within the doer of good deeds or conditioned, rather, by rewards and punishment, reciprocity or perhaps, fear, in which case, such acts of ―goodness‖, sullied by questionable (intent), are motivated, in part, by self-serving designs that are not (inherently) good in themselves
2. Still conscious of the gun in his waist holster, and feeling somehow sullied by the possession of it, he saw the being study his every inch
3. his continued alcohol and drug use sullied the flimsy
4. As there were no fireplaces or even room in the crowded club to throw a glass against the wall, they smashed their glasses on the floor, never to be sullied by a lesser purpose
5. He’d spring back from the grave if I sullied it by cooperating with you
6. "Regardless, she sullied him, dirtied him
7. Her surface beauty quickly waned, seemed sullied by a sooty cloud that came upon Her like a plague
8. To ascertain my presumption, and though where he had been was not really my path, I purposely passed by him to give a going over his sullied face
9. Sergeant Welky makes numerous appearances as Henry's mind is sullied with alcohol
10. On top of killing my parents and taking all that we owed, those bastards also took away my dignity and sullied me in an unspeakable way
11. over time was sullied; the rich became richer, always at the expense
12. and how the press and mega industries were enslaved and sullied to
13. There use to be the concept of the “Noble Savage” where adherents believed individuals from backwards cultures were somehow morally superior since they had not been sullied by the perceived decadence of more developed nations
14. By the very motive of trying to make people laugh at everything that’s wrong with civilized society, he sullied all of his personal honesty by not being taken seriously
15. light, the masses are cut out as simply as possible, and their colour is little sullied by light and shade
16. estranged by the loathsome information; could I then have returned to his sullied arms, but as a victim to the prejudices of mankind, who have made women the
17. purify it--yes, I blushed to think that its purity had been sullied, by allowing such a man to be its father
18. Locusta and Agrippina, living at the same time, were an exception, and proved the determination of providence to effect the entire ruin of the Roman empire, sullied by so many crimes
19. The Oval Office, the Navy Mess Hall, those are all historic places that deserve not to be sullied by romantic motives
20. It was true that the association with this man had been fatal to him—true that if he had had the thousand pounds still in his hands with all his debts unpaid he would have returned the money to Bulstrode, and taken beggary rather than the rescue which had been sullied with the suspicion of a bribe (for, remember, he was one of the proudest among the sons of men)—nevertheless, he would not turn away from this crushed fellow-mortal whose aid he had used, and make a pitiful effort to get acquittal for himself by howling against another
21. But I tell myself that I shall plot Sweet Revenges against this Villain, Lover, Devil; and e’en as I flee, I promise my sullied Soul and punish’d Pride that I shall have the Upper Hand ere long and one Day be his Master!
22. Ah too, too solid, too, too sullied Flesh! The Body is the Canvas whereupon the Soul paints its own Deformities! In my Whoring Days I had star’d with Disgust and Disbelief upon the ruin’d Bodies of Men—corpulent and gouty, red with Drink and swollen from Gluttony—and I had thought: E’en this Tub of Lard was once a sweet-faced Baby Boy
23. So they inwardly resolved that so long as they remained in the business, their piracies should not again be sullied with the crime of stealing
24. He was dressed now: he still looked pale, but he was no longer gory and sullied
25. He drew over the picture the sheet of thin paper on which I was accustomed to rest my hand in painting, to prevent the cardboard from being sullied
26. Gentlemen, you've sullied my heart! Can you suppose that I would conceal it from you, if I had really killed my father, that I would shuffle, lie, and hide myself? No, that's not like Dmitri Karamazov, that he couldn't do, and if I were guilty, I swear I shouldn't have waited for your coming, or for the sunrise as I meant at first, but should have killed myself before this, without waiting for the dawn! I know that about myself now
27. The verdict was rendered that I was a deceived husband, that I had killed in defence of my sullied honor (that is the way they put it in their language), and thus I was acquitted
28. Recognizing in a flash that he was ruined, in a sense annihilated, that he had disgraced himself and sullied his reputation, that he had been turned into ridicule and treated with contempt in the presence of spectators, that he had been treacherously insulted, by one whom he had looked on only the day before as his greatest and most trustworthy friend, that he had been put to utter confusion, Mr