So we spend time with Oxford dons ( Ruskin, Pater and Jowett are the best known ) who discuss both the corruptions of classical translation and the dangers of love between men ( alternately called beastliness and spooniness ).
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What Achilles felt for Patroclus, or Theseus for Pirithous, or the poet Horace for an athlete called Ligurinus, or Socrates for dozens of young men, was regarded as criminal " beastliness " and bowdlerized or misrepresented.
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When asked what the ballet was about, Cocteau replied : " Sunday vacuity; human beastliness, ready-made expressions, disassociation of ideas from flesh and bone, ferocity of childhood, the miraculous poetry of everyday life ."
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Here a youth named Sasha stumbles upon a group of people with the ability to turn themselves into wolves-- a plot device that is used not to make the obvious point about man's beastliness but rather to reconnect with the elemental vitality of life.
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In other proto-SF works, sex itself, of any type, was equated with base desires or " beastliness ", as in " Gulliver's Travels ", which contrasts the animalistic and overtly sexual Yahoos with the reserved and intelligent Houyhnhnms.
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Some historians have since taken a more moderate view, but before Brown's portrayal of white beastliness and Indian saintliness entered the public consciousness, the history of Western conquest was usually told from a much more Eurocentric point of view, a perspective echoed by countless Hollywood movies.
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In other proto-SF works, sex itself, of any type, was equated with base desires or " beastliness, " as in " Gulliver's Travels " ( 1726 ), which contrasts the animalistic and overtly sexual Yahoos with the reserved and intelligent Houyhnhnms.
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One of her entries was a prayer : Oh, God, control the cruel beastliness of the soldiers in Nanking tonight, comfort the heartbroken mothers and fathers whose innocent sons have been shot today, and guard the young women and girls through the long agonizing hours of this night.
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:: The etymologies suggest a connection with drunkenness for sottise and a connection with beastliness for b�tise, but I'm not sure how much relevance that has for the current-day meanings of the words . . . talk ) 15 : 51, 29 November 2013 ( UTC)
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Minnie Vautrin, a professor at Ginling College, wrote in her diary on that day, " Oh God, control the cruel beastliness of the Japanese soldiers in Nanking tonight . ., " and on the 19th, " In my wrath, I wished I had the power to smite them for their dastardly work.
