In all of these films you can sense a reckless millennial fervor, an urgency to tear down everything and expose the rottenness so that civilization can start all over again with a clean slate.
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Ms . Kincaid, whose memoir " A Small Place " dealt with growing up in Antigua, described the place in this later period as " a monument to rottenness ."
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Anyway, as Chief Wyatt wades through the would-be murderers, we watch Mona perform oversized acts of rottenness, as the interrogated recount their views of her, offer alibis and perform cartoonishly.
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How indicative that even now, the wretched Jacques Santer cannot bring himself to admit the slightest fault . . . . His egregious arrogance stands as a monument to the rottenness at the heart of Europe.
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Writing as Rosseus, More offers to " throw back into your paternity's shitty mouth, truly the shit-pool of all shit, all the muck and shit which your damnable rottenness has vomited up ".
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In any other form you have the burglar, the Jew, the Czar, the socialist, and, above all, the total irremediable, radical rottenness of our whole social, industrial, financial and political system ."
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With all its well-known faults and offenses, rap _ the best of it anyway, not the most horrifying examples which the media endlessly quote _ taps into political and social reality and finds within it a rottenness that evokes rage.
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But there was always crime, and rottenness, and drunkenness, and traffic accidents ( far more per # of vehicles on the road than there are today ), and stupidity, and narrow-mindedness, and prejudice, and lack of self-awareness.
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This is just a modern version of " Liquidate labor, liquidate stocks, liquidate the farmers, liquidate real estate . . . It will purge the rottenness out of the system " _ the disastrous advice that Herbert Hoover received from Andrew Mellon, his treasury secretary.
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His extremely interesting and important conclusion, moreover, is that the defeat of the Allies in France was not due to the reasons most conventionally given for it _ namely a combination of German military invincibility with a kind of moral rottenness, a pervasive, defeatist despair among the French.
