The U.S. mission to win gold allowed for few frivolities.
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A select few, however, don't waste their time with such frivolities.
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Her workman's jumpsuit suggests she has no time to think about such frivolities as appearance.
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Yet "Hostiles", Scott Cooper's new film, has succeeded in robbing the genre of its frivolities.
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They had money for house payments, food, and clothes, but not for frivolities like computers.
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To have the frivolities, and useless luxuries, and holding them up and taking them quite serious.
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They've seen how easily elections discourse can disintegrate into insults and frivolities, which risks inciting violence.
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Ask the internet for antiaging tips and you'll find advice ranging from Goop-y frivolities to dangerous shams.
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Stick to your initial reaction: no one should get to wear such '80s-throwback frivolities without being pickpocketed.
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It added stickers and other visual frivolities like the ability to festoon photos by giving your subjects digital makeovers.
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Of course, the one advantage of the late kick-off is that there is plenty of time to enjoy said frivolities.
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On the flipside, a pullback in Halloween spending is now seen as a sign that people are scaling back on frivolities.
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Directed by Henry Levin, the film features frivolities like dancing and making out, but also jazz and, surprisingly, a pensive ending.
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A life so pampered, while enviable and thrilling, was also morally suspect, reeking of bourgeois individualism and other Western frivolities, such as democracy.
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The purpose of this endeavor was not only to rid himself of society's frivolities but to see what the woods could teach him.
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For the first decades of your life, your worlds orbit each other, your happiness living and dying on the fights and frivolities you share.
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And if you're like me, this year's left you feeling a bit guilty about indulging in first-world frivolities, like Pokémon Go and fast fashion.
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Occasionally — like at his final rally in Des Moines — the questions were about his favorite Beatles song or similar frivolities (Buttigieg said his is "Come Together").
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Across the bay, on the beach, is the 2,000-capacity Fillmore at the historic Jackie Gleason Theater, complete with an intimate space in back for drag shows and other frivolities.
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As Prince Bifalt travels, he repeatedly rails at non-Bellegerins for doing what his people cannot, like learning multiple languages, or for wasting time with frivolities like dance and study.
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Trends were similar in the United States, where certain frivolities of the pre-war period ended, even in a landscape relatively unscathed by the horrors of the First World War.
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Across the Bay on the Beach is the 2,000-capacity Fillmore at the historic Jackie Gleason Theater, complete with an intimate space in back for drag shows and other frivolities.
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That being said, if you're overspending on the weekends on frivolities that you don't need, then it's time to consider some cheap but fun options, like staycations or free local events.
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Unfortunately, such capitalist frivolities have come at the expense of many woodland caribou, especially in the Little Smoky and A La Peche ranges, located in west-central Alberta near Jasper National Park.
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As soon as they get their discharge, the pressure on the former soldiers is really turned on, and it's time to cast off the frivolities of the young, which includes any pretensions to creativity.
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And although we can expect Obama-era frivolities such as dark parks and modern art displays to be eliminated this time around, there are some questions about how the money will be divvied up.
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With one outrageous exception — a hairpiece the size of a Buick appears briefly — the Berlin staging dispenses with foppish frivolities in favor of something far darker and closer to the spirit of Voltaire's original.
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A few are lucky enough to be able to get a night bus, or a pricey taxi, but for many it means the big outlay of a hotel room to sleep off the night's frivolities.
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People like to kibitz on the subject of who a politician "really" is, to claim that some votes or statements or gaffes or alliances are deeply revealing and others merely accidents, frivolities or improvisatory performances.
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She makes a strong argument for the importance of science applied to (what are often seen as) the frivolities of fashion, especially if we want to move away from the unartful excesses of mass production.
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And while millennials are sometimes chastised for spending our cash on frivolities like avocado toast (or, I guess, living rooms), saving money was probably the number one reason to stay in among those we informally surveyed.
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Rather than frittering away that precious leisure time on frivolities, as Veblen's leisure class did, they devote it to enriching experiences, like attending the opera, holidaying in far-off lands and working out at fancy gyms.
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The incisive, aphoristic script (credited to three writers) unites diverse strands of political and social history, including Prohibition and the frivolities of the roaring twenties, the spread of socialist ideas, and even the rise of Hollywood itself.
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He and his partners at 3G have developed over the years what many call a playbook for extracting costs from companies by eliminating frivolities like corporate-owned aircraft and expensive office space, revamping management and slashing jobs.
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The costs of the application process for residency, traveling for interviews, relocating across the country for said residency program, and taking a very poorly financially thought-out vacation, and other graduation frivolities put me in way over my head.
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But whenever I hear a Serious Academic opine that his Great Institution of Higher Learning is being sullied by the frivolities of Common Folk, I can't help but roll my eyes and wonder how many other serious academics feel trapped on the inside.
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An exhibition that same year on "The Art of Hair: Frivolities and Trophies" included displays of American Indian scalps, Ecuadorean shrunken heads and Peruvian mummified trophy heads, as well as masks, jewelry, talismans, clothing and weapons made, or decorated with, human hair.
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Sad Danielle Muscato — who describes herself as an atheist, civil rights activist, musician and trans woman on Twitter — hit Trump via tweet replies, attacking the president-elect for tweeting about frivolities instead of focusing on the lives of the Americans he now represents.
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"I believe deep down she's very insecure about her status and how she stacks up to others," she explained, adding that Susan had previously complained to her about her lack of financial access to Kardashian-esque frivolities, like designer clothes, lip fillers, and implants.
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Though written before last fall's presidential election, the album takes on a renewed ominousness having been released after it, with tracks like "Death Wish" offering meta reflections on the frivolities of perceived existential problems, and the privilege of being able to worry about those things to begin with.
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Leica stripped away any sort of frivolities or distractions from the M10: it doesn't shoot video of any sort, it can shoot a measly five frames per second (which is actually faster than its predecessor, but still slow by modern standards), and as you might expect, it doesn't have any autofocus function.
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So now that Evernote is calling time on all frivolities; trying to get back to the heart of what made the startup so popular in the first place; and driving more premium users — which are up 40% on a year ago, a spokesperson tells me — the decision to shut the Market was probably an easy sell at the startup.
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In addition, there are a number of what the website calls "Frivolities", e.g., The Oracle of Baseball, which links any two players by common teammates in the way the pop culture favorite "Oracle of Bacon" website does. Another one of their Frivolities is the page devoted to Keith Hernandez's mustache,"Keith Hernandez Mustache", Baseball-Reference. Accessed June 8, 2015.
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The statue has been the subject of student frivolities over the years, including a still current tradition of sitting in the archbishop's lap.
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In 1988 he was awarded the Kossuth Prize and the last book that appeared in his lifetime was Frivolities and Confessions (1988), a series of interviews conducted by Lóránt Kabdebó in 1983.
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Saippuaprinsessa (Finnish: The Soap Princess) is a historical novel by Finnish author Kaari Utrio focusing on the frivolities of the high society in Helsinki, the capital of Grand Duchy of Finland in the 1840s.
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Strangers were no longer welcome."Bramah, 1972. p 49 For example, some coffeehouses began charging more than the customary penny to preserve frequent attendance of the higher standing clientele they served. Literary and political clubs rose in popularity, as "the frivolities of coffee-drinking were lost in more serious discussion.
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He expanded the monastery apparently to accommodate an anticipated large numbers of pilgrims.Jestice, Phyllis G. "German Monastic Reform", Encyclopedia of Monasticism, (William M. Johnston, ed.), Routledge, 2013 Peter Damian commented "...he had expended almost all his efforts constructing useless buildings and had wasted much of the Church's resources in such frivolities".
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She wonders about his identity. After becoming bored with both solitude and the party atmosphere and frivolities of the Harrels, she decides to join Mrs. Harrel in another outing to the Opera. There, she meets Mr. Belfield who offers to help her out of her seat, but Sir Robert Floyer, pushing rudely by him, tries to help her himself.
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He addressed a crowd at York racecourse, which his sister Sarah put at two thousand, on 'the iniquity of the frivolities in which they were engaged, and to call their attention to the weightier concerns of eternity' (York Courant, 9 August 1825). In December 1827, the wives of both brothers died, James being left with a son and a daughter.
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Rolling Green Golf Club is a William Flynn designed golf course located in Springfield Township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania, USA. Founded to be a "golf club meant for golfers", Rolling Green has always proudly been a golf- only facility, without country club frivolities such as tennis or swimming. It opened for play in 1926. Rolling Green was ranked the 17th best golf course in Pennsylvania by Golf Digest.
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He declared himself superior to all of them. :"This open arrogance could not fail to cause him trouble and provoke hostilities. His own brothers-in-law complained about his whims and frivolities and went so far as to denounce him to the Great Maggid. Whose grandson was to say later: "Rebbe Barukh of Medzebozh tried to ascend to heaven by stepping on the heads of other Tzaddikim.
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333, noted in DNB, s.v. "Ignatius Sancho". - both of whom are also dressed as exquisitely as the first two. The black page, holding a type of Chinese porcelain figure, is a servant, and was painted in as an element of irony in the work; as a slave, he mocks his masters, who themselves bowed before fashions and the latest frivolities of upper-class life.
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She was born in London into a Methodist family, the fifth child of seven daughters and four sons of Samuel Chick and Emma Hooley. Her father owned property and sold lace. The Chick children were brought up strictly with no frivolities and regular attendance at family prayers. All seven girls attended Notting Hill High School, a girls' school thought to be outstanding for its teaching in the sciences.
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Returning to Siena in April 1425, he preached there for 50 consecutive days. His success was claimed to be remarkable. "Bonfires of the Vanities" were held at his sermon sites, where people threw mirrors, high-heeled shoes, perfumes, locks of false hair, cards, dice, chessmen, and other frivolities to be burned. Bernardino enjoined his listeners to abstain from blasphemy, indecent conversation, and games of hazard, and to observe feast days.
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Once the frivolities had ended, minds turned to post-war policy, and particularly how soldiers returning from Europe would be reintegrated into society. The Company had already, in 1916, set aside of farmland to be given free of charge to white war veterans. In early 1919 it set up a government department to help returning men find work. Many former soldiers failed to find jobs, and some remained unemployed for years after they returned home.
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In the new regime (which lasted from 1649 to 1653) the arts suffered. In England and the rest of the British Isles Oliver Cromwell's rule temporarily banned all theatre, festivals, jesters, mummers plays and frivolities. The ban was lifted when the monarchy was restored with Charles II. The Drury Lane theatre was favorite of King Charles. In contrast to the metaphysical poets was John Milton's Paradise Lost, an epic religious poem in blank verse.
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As perfumes, cosmetics, fashionable clothing, and footwear became available to ordinary women in the Soviet Union, East Germany, Poland, Yugoslavia and Hungary, they began to be presented not as bourgeois frivolities but as signs of socialist modernity. In China, with the economic liberation started by Deng Xiaoping in the 1980s, the state stopped discouraging women from expressing conventional femininity, and gender stereotypes and commercialized sexualization of women which had been suppressed under Communist ideology began to rise.
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Round Tables were an aristocratic activity throughout Europe from the 13th until the 15th centuries, being recorded in France from 1235 to 1332. In Aragon they were held as early as 1269 in Valencia and as late as 1291 in Catalonia. According to Roger Sherman Loomis, "Popes and prelates thundered against these costly, dangerous, and sometimes licentious frivolities, and denied Christian burial to those who took part." Even the middle classes were caught up in this spectacle.
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Iphicrate and his slave Arlequin find themselves shipwrecked on Slave Island, a place where masters become slaves and slaves become masters. Trivelin, the governor of the island, makes Arlequin and Iphicrate, as well as Euphrosine and her slave Cléanthis, change roles, clothes, and names. Both Arlequin and Cléanthis take advantage of the situation to expose the frivolities and fickleness of their masters. However, Arlequin is ultimately touched by the tears of Euphrosine, who is suffering from humiliation at the hands of Cléanthis.
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By doing this they demonstrate their genetic fitness, as genetically less fit males can only grow small plumage, while genetically better individuals can grow larger ones. (In biology, this is known as the handicap principle.) Countersignaling, by contrast, is showing off by not showing off, or by playing humble. For instance, the nouveau riche are eager to flaunt their wealth, and often surround themselves with expensive luxury items. Those with old money are more understated, preferring not to waste money on such frivolities.
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A bourgeois white man (Ligardes) finds himself the victim of mistaken identity when he dresses up in drag yet is mistaken by authorities for a criminal Algerian transsexual. During his overnight stay in jail he meets two strangers, a beur, Youssef (Kelif) and Sophia (Elkabetz), a woman seeking a sex-change operation. The eclectic trio embark on a hedonistic tour through Paris and the surrounding countryside, amidst the frivolities, and problems such as the immigration authorities and the police presence.Origine Controlee Film.com.
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Tyer's garden at Denbies was in startling contrast to the frivolities of Vauxhall, being adorned with memento mori ("reminders of death"). The property passed through other hands, and in the 1850s it was rebuilt, much greater, by pre-eminent early Victorian master builder, Thomas Cubitt. He was visited at Denbies by Prince Albert, who planted a commemorative tree which survived until the Great Storm of 1990. The house remained in that family except in World War II when it was requisitioned by the military.
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Davis was born in London and studied art at the Ridley Art School. She exhibited landscape paintings and painted fans at the Royal Academy in London from 1986 onwards and at the Paris Salon from 1898. In 1914 Davis had a joint exhibition with Charles Conder, another noted fan artist of the time, in New York at the Colnaghi & Obach gallery. In 1919 Davis shared an exhibition, entitled Pictures, Portraits, Fans and Frivolities, with Laura Anning Bell and Constance Rea at the Fine Art Society in London.
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John of Salisbury. Frivolities of Courtiers and Footprints of Philosophers, (Joseph B. Pike, trans.), University of Minnesota, 1938 Bernard's teaching was distinguished partly by its pronounced Platonic tendency, and partly by the stress laid upon literary study of the greater Latin writers. The influence of the latter feature is noticeable in all John of Salisbury's works. Around 1140 John returned to Paris to study theology under Gilbert de la Porrée, then under Robert Pullus and Simon of Poissy, supporting himself as a tutor to young noblemen.
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"Burton Holmes, Extraordinary Traveler" website, "Hand-Painted Colored Slides" page. In the years that followed, Holmes traveled extensively: North and South America, Europe, Russia, India, Ethiopia, Burma (now Myanmar). He lectured about such topics as the Panama Canal, the "Frivolities of Paris," even the adventures of Richard Halliburton, one of his competitors in the travel lecture profession. He visited the first modern Olympics in 1896, rode the first trans-Siberian train, and shot what may be the first movies ever made of Japan, in 1899.
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Dances such as the "Gigoton" and "La Bébée" are both forms of polka. The violin, the chifournie (hurdy-gurdy), and later the accordion were traditional instruments for sonneurs (country dances). The decline of these dances has often been ascribed to the influence of Nonconformist Christianity that discouraged such cultural frivolities, or at least placed such a low value on these activities that they were not thought worth recording. It is more likely that, as in many other parts of Europe, they were a victim of changing fashion and a cultural shift away from traditional regional society and toward English-speaking modernity.
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Vionnet created some 12,000 garments over the course of her career. An intensely private individual, Vionnet avoided public displays and mundane frivolities, Despite her success as a designer, she expressed dislike for the world of fashion, stating: "Insofar as one can talk of a Vionnet school, it comes mostly from my having been an enemy of fashion. There is something superficial and volatile about the seasonal and elusive whims of fashion which offends my sense of beauty". Vionnet was not concerned with being the "designer of the moment", preferring to remain true to her own vision of female beauty.
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Thomas Day in 1770 Thomas Day was a bachelor who had inherited his fortune from his father when he was an infant. Described as having a face pockmarked from smallpox, a brooding personality, and a short temper, Day attended Corpus Christi College, Oxford, to study philosophy. It was there that he decided to dedicate his life to becoming a virtuous man, shunning luxury and focusing on altruism. Around the same time he developed a list of requirements for his future wife, that she should be subservient and pure but also able to discuss philosophy and live without frivolities.
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Mutual's shows for the 1927-28 season included Band Box Revue, Banner Burlesquers, Bathing Beauties, Big Revue, Bowery Burlesquers, Carrie Finnell's Show, Follies of Pleasure, French Models, Frivolities of 1928, Ginger Girls, Girls from Happyland, Girls from the Follies, Girls of the U.S.A., Happy Hours, Hello Paree, High Flyers, High Life, Hollywood Scandals, Kandy Kids, Jazztime Revue, Laffin' Thru, Moonlight Maids, Naughty Nifties, Nite Hawks, Nite Life in Paris, Parisian Flappers, Pretty Babies, Record Breakers, Red Hot, Social Maids, Speed Girls, Step Lively Girls, Stolen Sweets, Sugar Babies, and Tempters."Burlesque Routes."Variety, Dec. 28, 1927. p. 53.
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Godwin's mother came from a wealthy family but due to her uncle's frivolities the family wealth was squandered. Fortunately for the family her father was a successful merchant involved in the Baltic Sea trade. Godwin's father, a Nonconformist minister in Guestwick in Norfolk, died young, and never inspired love or much regret in his son; but in spite of wide differences of opinion, tender affection always subsisted between William Godwin and his mother, until her death at an advanced age. William Godwin was educated for his father's profession at Hoxton Academy, where he studied under Andrew Kippis the biographer, and Dr. Abraham Rees of the Cyclopaedia.
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Alex Fletcher of Digital Spy gave the song four out of five stars, and wrote: "Fedde has teamed up with Ida Corr to produce another three minutes of thunderous dance-tastic frivolities. 'Let Me Think About It' couldn't possibly be any more of an Ibiza TUNE. It's the sound of Pete Tong, Dave Pearce and Scott Mills stood screaming with a load of Club 18-30 reps, while some boozed-up bikini-clad temptress grinds up against you all soaked up into a CD package. Packed with parping horns, cascading synth beats and the sound of a fire alarm being played along to the theme from Shaft".
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She's bullied by several of her classmates, who trick her into going to a karaoke bar with them- only for them to abuse her and carve "whore" onto her leg before leaving Reina to be raped by several boys. Ayu eventually graduates from school and develops a friendship with Yoshiyuki after the death of the old woman. She eventually manages to raise 2 million yen, the amount the old lady stated was needed for the operation, and gives it to Yoshiyuki's father - only to discover that the operation costs 10 million. Unbeknownst to Ayu, Yoshiyuki's father ends up spending it on frivolities and fun rather than on his son.
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The book includes two main collections of short stories: “Book I: How Some Passed Out of The Courts for Ever” which consists mainly of pre-war frivolities, and “Book II: How Others Left the Courts Only to return” which relates post-war tales. Dividing the groups is a single-story “Interlude”. The first story of Book I has the characters in London, after which they proceed to the island of Rih (a thinly- disguised Madeira). The final story concludes with the sudden end of the male characters, now serving in the Great War, who hear a sound which some interpret as a ship's siren and others as the sound of a heavy gun.
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Mary Frances Xavier Warde was born as Joanna Reddan in 1810 at Belbrook House, Mountrath, Queen's County, Ireland, of a fairly prosperous family. After the death of her parents, she was entrusted to the care of a maternal great-aunt who undertook the formation of her religious character according to the method of Fenelon. Naturally of a lively disposition, she was carried away by the frivolities of fashionable life until her scruples led her to confide in her director. She followed his advice in offering her services to the foundress of the Congregation of the Sisters of Mercy, whom she assisted in instructing the little inmates of the recently erected House for Homeless Children.
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Essentially, it is through the theme of virtues borrowed from ancient times that the "true style," later called neo-classical, spread into art, rejecting the frivolities of the royal court of Louis XVI at the time of the French revolution. In the very composition of the work of David, however, the essence of the tableau juxtaposes several rococo ideas, and is thus not a completely neo-classical work. Nonetheless, the neo- classical perspective can still be found, especially in the ideas behind this painting: a revolutionary (David) offers a meditation on the moral heroism in adversity. The artist returned to the subject in 1784, producing a smaller canvas with minor changes which is in the collection of the Louvre.
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The Ledger kept by the merchant John Smyth shows how he (and other city merchants) planned their year so that their goods (such as wine, dyes, oil, iron, fruit, and luxury goods) would be in stock in time for the fair. By the 17th century the fair was so prominent that merchant ships sailing into Bristol for it were frequently attacked by Turkish pirates in the Bristol Channel. The last fair was held in 1837 under pressure from moralists and strict religious people concerned about the corruption of the young and disapproving of such frivolities set in a graveyard. It also subsequently left its mark on the geography of Bristol as a nearby road in Broadmead is called the Horsefair.
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Overhearing Alfie talking to Joe about going to the party at Atticus' house, Pasco reveals himself to be a smuggler and recruits Alfie to the CLA. Alfie and the class become involved in the frivolities at the pub, which get out of hand and end up with Joe being stabbed in the hand. Susan records the incident from outside through a window, but before she can send the recording to the other parents, Pasco (at Alfie's request) slips her some sleeping pills, packs her in a trunk, and abandons the trunk in Cherbourg, France. Pasco then takes the group to a strip club, where he asks Alfie to deliver some cannabis to Atticus Hoye's party the following evening on his behalf.
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The groom's mistress, whom he married after the death of his wife in 1579, was already well-established in 1565: this was a political marriage, and an extravagant one, and cost Duke Cosimo, father of the groom, over 60,000 ducats, a phenomenal sum. Sending a teen-aged boy into the hot-house of Medici intrigue might have seemed questionable to the sober-minded Wittelsbachs. Albert had supported whole-heartedly the Catholic Counter-Reformation; Jesuits were entrenched at the Jesuit College of Ingolstadt, and had raised his children accordingly. Ferdinand's older brother earned for himself the sobriquet "the Pius" for his melancholy demeanor, his ardent attachment to prayer and meditation, and, more obviously, for his eschewal of hunting, dancing, and other frivolities that dominated social life in a 16th-century court.
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Hodge now resumed his literary partnership with Graves, beginning with some historical research on the American War of Independence for Graves's Sergeant Lamb novels. The next project, The Long Week-End, was intended as "a reliable record of what took place, of a forgettable sort, during the twenty-one-year interval between the two great European wars", for which Hodge did research work and wrote first drafts of several of the chapters. The evidence was mainly drawn from ephemeral sources, such as newspapers, magazines and radio broadcasts, and the book depicted British life in this period as being mainly devoted to frivolities and distractions. The Long Week-End was completed in June 1940 and published the following November by Faber and Faber, with Graves and Hodge being credited as co-authors.
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Sabrina Bicknell (1757 – 8 September 1843), better known as Sabrina Sidney, was a British woman abandoned at the Foundling Hospital in London as a baby, and taken in at the age of 12 by author Thomas Day, who tried to mould her into his perfect wife. She grew up to marry one of Day's friends, instead, and eventually became a school manager. Inspired by Jean-Jacques Rousseau's book Emile, or On Education, Day decided to educate two girls without any frivolities, using his own concepts, after being rejected by several women, and struggling to find a wife who shared his ideology. In 1769, Day and his barrister friend, John Bicknell, chose Sidney and another girl, Lucretia, from orphanages, and falsely declared they would be indentured to Day's friend Richard Lovell Edgeworth.
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These poems, though derivative, indicate a resolute determination to challenge the literary conventionalities. Improving on the poems of his youth, he showed himself an innovator in his lyrics, rejecting at once Petrarchism, Secentismo and Arcadia, the three maladies that he thought had weakened Italian art in the preceding centuries. In the Odi the satirical note is already heard, but it comes out more strongly in Del giorno, in which he imagines himself to be teaching a young Milanese patrician all the habits and ways of gallant life; he shows up all its ridiculous frivolities, and with delicate irony unmasks the futilities of aristocratic habits. Dividing the day into four parts, the Mattino, the Mezzogiorno, the Vespero, and the Notte, he describes the trifles of which they were made up, and the book thus assumes major social and historical value.
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Portrait of Anne-Thérèse de Marguenat de Courcelles by Étienne-Jehandier Desrochers Anne-Thérèse de Marguenat de Courcelles (1647 - 12 July 1733), who on her marriage became Madame de Lambert, Marquise de Saint-Bris, and is generally known as the Marquise de Lambert, was a French writer and salonnière. During the Régence, when the court of the Duchesse du Maine, at the Château de Sceaux, was amusing itself with frivolities, and when that of the Duc d’Orléans, at the Palais-Royal, was devoting itself to debauchery, the salon of the Marquise de Lambert passed for the temple of propriety and good taste, in a reaction against the cynicism and vulgarity of the time. For the cultivated people of the time, it was a true honor to be admitted to the celebrated "Tuesdays", where the dignity and high class of the "Great Century" were still in the air.
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I hold the English people > responsible for the murder of 80 millions of Indian people in the last fifty > years, and they are also responsible for taking away ₤100,000,000 every year > from India to this country. I also hold them responsible for the hanging and > deportation of my patriotic countrymen, who did just the same as the English > people here are advising their countrymen to do. And the Englishman who goes > out to India and gets, say, ₤100 a month, that simply means that he passes a > sentence of death on a thousand of my poor countrymen, because these > thousand people could easily live on this ₤100, which the Englishman spends > mostly on his frivolities and pleasures. Just as the Germans have no right > to occupy this country, so the English people have no right to occupy India, > and it is perfectly justifiable on our part to kill the Englishman who is > polluting our sacred land.
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