Denial of our natures is perhaps the most fundamental of our natures.
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In its escapism, Overcooked reveals the true natures of your friends.
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This seems to me a reminder of nature, of our natures.
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There are, as the little girl intuited, many natures, after all.
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" The problem with these approaches is the implicit assumption that sex differences, whether in brain structure, function, or behavior, 'add up' consistently in individuals to create "male brains" and "female brains," and "male natures" and "female natures.
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Downsizing can make people smaller, but it can't change our essential natures.
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Both signs have Venus to thank for their openness and flirtatious natures.
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Though both are heavy and dense, their physical natures are strikingly different.
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To do so would be for either man to betray their natures.
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It's in every other scenario where we lose sight of our better natures.
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She uses technology to demonstrate the protective and uncertain natures of these clothes.
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Distrustful people end up isolating themselves, alienating others and corroding their inner natures.
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Meticulous, industrious natures, each quietly worshipped a queen, each quietly stoked my inheritance.
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The notion of fundamentally female and male brains or natures is a misconception.
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The anxiety you feel comes from new adjustments that go against our original natures.
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They've developed natures and civilizations as morally complex and advanced as the homo sapiens'.
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Soon other characters follow suit, going against the grain of their own rough natures.
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At first, our opposite natures felt complementary — my curiosity, his need for the familiar.
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A brown leaf isn't garbage to them, it's just one of many beautiful natures.
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"It's better to change circumstances and not try to reform people's inner natures," Rubin explained.
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Astrologer Lisa Stardust adds that this Libra energy will have us embracing our romantic natures.
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Their idealistic and emotional natures can cause them to feel misunderstood or easily taken advantage of.
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There's an old adage that bullies resort to aggression to hide their fearful and insecure natures.
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But it is defeatist to believe that the better parts of those countries' natures are doomed.
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They rationalized their power as one of inherent and necessary right – auxiliary to their legislative natures.
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"Most women do not want to be liberated from their essential natures as women," she said.
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Realizing people's "herd-like" natures has driven Thiel to embrace contrarian views as an investor and entrepreneur.
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Michael says: WE HAVE IN THIS MEETING FOUND YOU INTELLIGENT & YOUR SERIOUS NATURES AT ONE WITH US. . . .
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Nor does he imply that monogamy is a stifling social convention imposed on our free animal natures.
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They doubt productivity can be increased solely by appealing to the better angels of their colleagues' natures.
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The Moon opposes Jupiter in Virgo at 9:23 AM, and we second guess our consumptive natures.
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Conservatives have a respect for a universal human nature; reactionaries tend to value some natures more than others.
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Despite Guadagnino's interest in the topic, Suspiria doesn't quite capture the coexisting great and terrible natures in mothers.
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In the end, the woman becomes a tiger herself; they live together, not afraid of their own natures.
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It hoovered in UFO reports and sent investigators to determine the hypothetical objects' natures and their threat level.
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The President's job is not to elevate the darker natures within our society by finding common cause with them.
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But be careful playing with your friends or significant others, because it's bound to stir up their competitive natures.
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The new season still pauses for the occasional on-the-nose sermon about the natures of truth and justice.
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Perhaps the biggest risk of an escalation lies in the impulsive and prickly natures of Kim and Trump themselves.
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I think religion is a construct invented by humans to impose control over our animal selves, our 'savage' natures.
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The systems we build are choices about which parts of our natures to unleash, and which parts to check.
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But what if there is scant succor to be had, and our true natures are not noble but necrotic, pestilential?
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We have natures, and there are certain constants in human life, and that's a moral foundation we can build on.
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Freeman did not locate the suspect, but soon after, police received another call from the 1200 block of Natures Bend.
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Instead, he relates to the game's mysterious villains, Xehanort or likely Ansem, anyone who's fallen prey to their dark natures.
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She believes that the family structure would stay intact if we accepted our polyamorous natures and could "unlearn" sexual jealousy.
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The theatrical natures of people like Gaga, Almodovar, or Freddy Mercury tend to instruct my work more than other photographers.
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And it is work that women have so often simply been expected to do because it's presumably in our natures.
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She sets about to do what we would all hope the better angels of our natures would have us do.
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" Liberals, she said, are angry "because most women do not wish to be liberated from their essential natures as women.
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They also pointed to the problematic, ambiguous natures of both the House chaplain and the White House Correspondents' Dinner as institutions.
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The characters' over-the-top hero costumes, an embodiment of their rebellious natures, add to the magic of the game's world.
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We attribute their flaws to some greater genius and dismiss their cruel natures in hopes that they will bring us glory.
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These stories pique our curiosity about our own personal natures and what we're searching for (are we even searching for something?).
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He has two natures, and in the Bible he lives according to both — tempted as a human, but also completely divine.
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This form of sustainable architecture gives all individuals, regardless of class or creed, the ability to connect with their true natures.
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What I've found most remarkable about Mason's fiction is the quality of his revelations, his ability to unveil temperaments, habits, natures.
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Additionally, Markle hasn't, historically, been afraid of being political, which may not sit well with Prince William and Kate's more traditional natures.
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"It turned out that individuals who had frequent surgeries and whose general immunologic natures were allergic were most at risk," Kelly says.
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We have more freedom to live out our own sexual identities and more religious and nonreligious options to express our spiritual natures.
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So i think the nature, the services in the natures of things our clients want from global financial services, require large banks.
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We went to war with ourselves, our own bodies, and our own sexual natures, all under the strict commandment of the church.
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In H.G. Wells' The Island of Dr. Moreau, animal-human hybrids live a conflicted and painful life, torn between their two natures.
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Natures are the way this game sums up the personality type of each Pokémon, and so far Mudkips have all been Calm.
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"Exoplanets receiving a lot of irradiation are thought to react and evolve differently based on their natures," said Ehrenreich in an email.
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Where their Black Mirror predecessors surrendered to the basest cruelties their future tech encourages, these characters rise above it, choosing their better natures.
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One way to judge politicians is by whether they appeal to our better natures: Mr Trump has prospered by inciting hatred and violence.
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Human Natures Two lyrical books, each rooted in history, weave together memoir and environmental consciousness hewing to both your route and your interests.
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Experts who study it say that play is intrinsic to children's natures, but still needs support and attention from the adults around them.
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And a piece of juicy, luscious fruit shows up in a key, unforgettable scene that weaves together the natures of desire and guilt.
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"Let's sit on this bench and see how many natures we have," she said to them, hoisting herself up onto the metal seat.
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It is, above all, about people living in disguise — not only to others, but also to themselves — and gradually uncovering their essential natures.
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But a lot of what this season talks about is that people's true natures can be diametrically opposed to who they're trying to be.
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When people can gab at one another unceasingly, a lot of the chatter is going to spring from the lesser aspects of our natures.
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It uses its protagonists' natures to explore humanity: One is a golem, created to serve people, but left without a master and a purpose.
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She is a beguiling woman in full control of her own allure, and uses her "uncanny" understanding of the men's natures with much success.
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She will also play to their competitive natures by holding contests to see who can create the most delicious meals using nutrient-rich ingredients.
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It also was known that Dolan was never thrilled with the press-friendly natures of D'Antoni or Donnie Walsh, the executive who hired him.
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The need for freedom is tied to our natures, like the intermittent fever for deliverance through a despot, but it's stronger and more enduring.
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It is to live in a world marked more by possibility, fluidity, change and negotiability than by outdated images of fixed natures and capacities.
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Doeleman said that the team is also hoping to image the magnetic fields around black holes to learn more about their structures and basic natures.
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"I became a bit harder-edged, binge-drank more at loud nightclubs, and started to accept the transient natures of love, sex, and friendship," she said.
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In the Apes universe, both ape and man have complex natures that force the responsibility for choosing to be good or wicked onto the creature themselves.
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This may not be a surprise, given that I just wrote a book called Against Empathy, exploring the dark side of this aspect of our natures.
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The reasons are obvious: small homes, large social appetites and delayed marriages and parenthood, not to mention the restless and curious natures that define New Yorkers.
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The Singaporean government posted detailed accounting for how many people had been tested for the virus, and the locations and natures of those people's social contacts.
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While the government promises training will "continue as normal," a few silent cues suggest Hanna and her call to escape have awakened the trainees' more rebellious natures.
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But he also contends with passionate or existential atheists, rebels who cannot forgive God for the horrors of the world or the miseries of their own natures.
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The angels of their better natures, if they've ever given a moment's thought to them, are a lot less powerful than the devils of their diabolical urges.
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Both books are fundamentally conservative; Men Are From Mars argues that men and women have different "natures," while the Love Languages is dedicated to making marriages last.
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Their different natures were evident at the post-race news conference, with the rugged, rangy Murray taking the lead and the academic-looking Bond biding his time.
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These relations include the ecologically damaged urban natures in which most children already live, in contrast to the idealized ways in which children and nature are often represented.
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It breeds disillusionment in voters who cannot understand why their elected leaders are incapable of setting aside divisive slogans that pander to the darkest side of our natures.
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For example, in Pullman's books its said that people in service (butlers, assistants, lower-level police officers) often have dogs as their dæmons due to their obedient natures.
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"It's really tough to reach out to these kids and help because of their itinerant natures," Mark Horvath, the founder of the nonprofit organization Invisible Voices, told Fox News.
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Although she died more than a decade before he did, he was reminded on his morning walk of their very two different natures—his precise, hers artistic and messy.
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"Gender" agitation cast itself as political, but perhaps most significantly it achieved a revolution in manners, instilling first tolerance, then acceptance, and, finally, respect for formerly repressed human natures.
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In its second season, a show must probe its characters more deeply, while remaining true to their natures, while surprising viewers, while being even more entertaining—a big ask.
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"Social media proved to be more important than it looked, because it's about our natures," he told The New York Times on the occasion of Girard's death in 2015.
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It's the wrestling between those two natures, the battle between worldly desires, like power and money and sex, and more transcendent preoccupations, like salvation, that makes up our lives.
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Long heralded by its profits as a digital panacea for our fractured world, services like Facebook and Twitter have instead come to both represent and fuel our darker natures.
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This checks out because as we all know, our tiny hands prevent women from holding instruments correctly, and our inherently gentle natures render us incapable of either rocking or rolling.
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However, they might make for a hot match in the short-term, and their different natures mean that BDSM might be fun (with Scorpio as the dominant partner, of course).
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David MacNaughton, Canada's ambassador to the United States, said he was confident that talks to modernize the North American Free Trade Agreement would maintain the trilateral natures of the pact.
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And if the Ju/'hoansi are a good analog for how our ancestors lived, then this has implications for understanding our "natures" and how we respond to challenges like automation.
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The Polish poet and Nobel Prize winner produced a quietly meditative work in 1985 that pointed toward the mysterious quality of existence, the inability to fully understand our own natures.
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" The city also emphasized it "understands" the lawsuit's "concerns about the changing natures of their communities and the challenges they and others face in securing the homes and neighborhoods they desire.
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So, really, the best and most noble thing of all — the action that will help us transcend our natures — is to free ourselves from caring so much about spaces after periods.
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The couple appeared on Good Morning America on Tuesday to announce that new baby Shai won't stop them from hitting the ballroom, and parenthood hasn't quelled their competitive natures one bit.
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" McMaster is no technophobe, but he dismisses conceptions of the future of war that "cut against war's political nature, war's human natures, war's uncertainty and war as a contest of wills.
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Canadians are often praised for their good natures, with more than 80 percent of respondents giving us top marks for our friendliness in a survey by the global social network InterNations.
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There's pathos in Newt's mission to save these furred and feathered beings, an honorable calling that serves as a bewitched if overly tidy and cute vision of our own better natures.
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In turn, Gently is now front and center, unlike past characters whose whimsical natures would have them sidelined as comic relief (think Freddie from "A Different World" or Lynn from "Girlfriends").
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It's been a banner Tuesday on Sesame Street and in the Mushroom Kingdom — so much so that both "Sesame Street" and Nintendo had to issue clarifying statements about their characters' sexual natures.
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As in all popular music, there is a strong element of fantasy here, and some of these artists seem to be creating fictional characters as much as they are expressing their natures.
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The heart of Dimsdale's narrative concerns the personal and professional conflict between Kelley and Gilbert, which centered on their differing interpretations of those diagnoses and, by extension, of the defendants' fundamental natures.
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After she leaves home, revelations include stumbling upon John Stuart Mill's opinion that, of women's natures, "nothing final can be known": "Never had I found such comfort in a void," she writes.
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This meal, Lance says, "will have an immersive component which seeks to reconnect us with our wild, carnal natures," as it emulates a time when people depended solely upon nature for food.
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At its core is the persistent belief that men's and women's natures can be usefully and meaningfully carved into two categories or "natural kinds," that are distinct, timeless, and deeply biologically grounded.
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It seems as if, amidst the cacophony of voices, we only hear what the media and the indignant politicians and pundits scream out at us — disparaging our good natures in the process.
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On Election Day, these states' conservative natures overrode the backlash toward the president, though Trump's deep unpopularity made a few of these races closer for Republicans than they otherwise probably would have been.
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Looking at the screen, it seemed as if they'd been chosen with care, in their identical natures, as if she were following a form of order, repeating a ritual over and over again.
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Conflicts of all natures will arise as 6900 million people are on the move, escaping war, conflict and weather-related incidents that no longer allow them to live and flourish in their homelands.
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Look, I get that Trump sees moments like the one last night in Houston as a chance to flout political correctness, to "own the libs" by purposely jabbing at their easily offended natures.
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"I think the trend of witchy herbs and potions being sold at corporate retailers is in part an answer to this primal need to reconnect with our wild natures and heal ourselves," Solee says.
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But in the realm of the free operation of intellect and imagination that is culture, let there bloom the suspension of moral judgment for the sake of a better understanding of our moral natures.
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Trying to understand our divided natures and the fusion of form and content in perfect works of art, Goldbarth covers subjects as varied as Catullus, science fiction, and the life of a professional escort.
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People have great power to go against their own natures and uplift their spouses, by showing a willingness to change, by supporting their journey from an old crippled self to a new more beautiful self.
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She spoke so clearly to our judgments, to our values and decisions and choice of responsibilities, to our primal natures, to how often the rational intellect simply launders our animal selves, offering desires as arguments.
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Both ultimately hew to a distrustful, stark, combative, zero-sum view of life — the idea that making it in this world is an unforgiving slog and that, given other people's selfish natures, vulnerability is dangerous.
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And that would be Romney, who, like Bloomberg, might be seen to have been waiting in the wings all along, waiting for the fevers to subside and the people to return to their better natures.
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In depicting Christ's life as a doubt-ridden struggle between his human and divine natures, Scorsese had intended to make a film that was at once an act of doubt and an act of faith.
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In Florida, the sheer volume of homes hit by Hurricane Irma will likely cause an increase in mortgage delinquencies, but the comparison with Katrina does not work because of the different natures of the storms.
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We had left commuter Monday-to-Friday lives in New York to come to a rural farming community, seeking a simpler life that was truer to our natures, not yet knowing what exactly that was.
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The first consists of five profiles; the second collects reportage that looks at the way we speak, variously defined, and how it reveals (often unpleasantly) our natures; the third, and longest, showcases Malcolm's literary criticism.
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Using genetics, cybernetics, nanotechnology, or other means at its disposal, an ASI could reengineer us into blathering, mindless automatons, thinking it was doing us some sort of favor in an attempt to pacify our violent natures.
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Can we make it reliable so that the decentralized web is still information, but it's a mechanism that makes it so that the web also would be archivable such as the active working natures of websites.
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These include a legendary monsters, a trading system, four additional types of berries and incense, an item called "sweet honey," and natures like "stoic" and "raider" that might have some effect on trainers or Pokémon themselves.
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" —Evangelia Leclaire "Many of my clients express that their ambition and multi-passionate natures result in a feeling they have a fractured professional identity—that they're somehow inadequate because they're 'not good' at any one thing.
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In a similar vein, Martin Scorsese's 1988 "The Last Temptation of Christ" (boycotted worldwide and censored in some places) explored the internal struggle between his human and divine natures, with a particular emphasis on the first.
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"The Never Trumper Republicans, though on respirators with not many left, are in certain ways worse and more dangerous for our Country than the Do Nothing Democrats," the president wrote, before warning of their scummy natures.
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If you don't want to engage, you can always pay the drink penalty and forfeit, but our competitive natures and the fact that most of us were pretty drunk by that point meant that never happened.
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If, and only if, our societies make better futures their goal, and cooperate together in achieving this, will we create and sustain the societies and nonhuman natures that we and future generations will desire to live in.
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The protagonists in "Angels in America" are confronted not only by homophobia and self-destruction but also by their own natures, by love's power and love's failure, by censorious religions and callous politicians, by racism and classism.
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We do some pretty offbeat things and sometimes it's a little naughty, but there's still a sweetness and innocence to it, and that's born out of the friendship, but it's also born out of the guys' natures.
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Nobody will deny — most of all not Spinoza — that a human is "natura naturata," a thing among things, a nature among natures, a figure of the world woven from the same fiber as all other ordinary figures.
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Her plot is the best animated antihero story since Zuko's, using the conflicted relationship between Adora and Catra as a lens to question why some women feel they must hide their competitive natures and accept being second best.
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People with violent crimes in their past—even their distant past—do not qualify for inclusion in most "comprehensive" reform discussions or proposed statutes that attempt to ease prison populations because of the serious natures of their crimes.
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Just as Shakespeare has Cassius say to Brutus "The fault … is not in our stars/But in our selves," so Balanchine, in 1974, here eliminates the fairy — the supernatural — and shows the lovers parting because of their own natures.
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Perhaps the deeper truth is that Scorsese and Coppola are right, in that it takes a huge effort of the disciplined imagination to turn human attention away from daydreams of magical powers to the truth of our contradictory natures.
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Men and women were understood to have extremely different natures, and men were expected to be lustful—but this was seen as a bad thing for men, as sexual orgasm was viewed as dangerous, depleting the body of its vital energies.
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Gabuev says there are "three elements of geopolitical tinder that allow Russia and China to swipe right every time" — the need for security on their 2,000-mile border, the complementary natures of their economies and the similarities in their authoritarian approaches.
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He proposed right after he asked Ms. Swiggett to help him move a couch in their apartment on Super Pi Day, 3-14-15, a sign of both Mr. Sternal's mathematical and romantic natures, according to his father, Ron Sternal.
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The women's opposing natures create a tension that drives the narrative, while the well-wrought texture of their everyday lives — containing such elements as the "dark magic of Diet Coke" and their youthful infatuation with Rob Lowe — keeps it grounded.
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In Ashman's version, it becomes a parable for the destructive natures of repression and the desire for the kind of heterosexual domesticity emblematic of Reagan-era politics (not to mention the way blood itself feeds what later becomes an epidemic).
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Our real-life horrors (in this case, a millennia-old belief in a dark being constantly trying to turn humanity against its better natures) get translated into horror tales, which get translated into real-life scares, which later become other horror tales.
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By bringing everyone into the climate fight, progressives will create massive political change the same way we did with same-sex marriage and gun responsibility: by swaying one neighbor at a time with personal stories and an appeal to our better natures.
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And in the fiction of the Nobel Prize winner Kazuo Ishiguro — notably his story "Cellists," from the collection "Nocturnes," and his massive, dizzying novel "The Unconsoled" — variations on the natures of performers and their (often adoring) audiences build to an immersive literary symphony.
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To be away from home and yet to feel oneself everywhere at home; to see the world, to be at the center of the world, and yet to remain hidden from the world — impartial natures which the tongue can but clumsily define.
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"Where did the public good enter at all into this maze of personal intrigue, this wilderness of stunted natures where no straight road was to be found, but only the tortuous and aimless tracks of beasts and things that crawl?" she wonders.
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In the above video, VICE co-founder Shane Smith sits down with Stice in order to shed some light on what really goes on in Kalu Yala once the cameras stop rolling, and the dueling "capitalist and idealist natures" of Stice's business model.
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Trump had little to say about trans people on the campaign trail, but his racist, xenophobic, sexist, ableist, and otherwise broadly discriminatory talking points at political rallies made it clear that he was a voice for id-level anxieties reflecting some Americans' worst natures.
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Jack's Manichean worldview supposes that dictators and serial killers—and Danish film directors, for that matter—are compelled to follow their violent, destructive and creative natures just as minority groups and women are destined to be their victims (this idea is only passingly interrogated by Verg).
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"Whilst the company expects 50 million euros in synergies as a result of the deal we need educating on the significant overlap between Spanish and German hospital management, given the very different natures of the healthcare systems," said Douglas-Pennant, who has a "buy" recommendation on Fresenius.
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The viewing public of the show adored the bright smiles and good natures of the baby girls so much that they were not recast in later seasons, an almost unprecedented move in a television environment that likes to expedite the growth of infant characters into affable preschoolers to keep them interesting.
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So much so that, after conceding that the poor are "hard to love" and counseling her to close her eyes and think of Highgarden when performing her wifely duty, he suggests that she try out her "water rounding the jagged stones and calming brute natures" talk on her Grandmother Olenna.
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But while Multiplicity largely leans on sexist clichés, with clones becoming more feminine or masculine based on what tasks they're assigned, Living with Yourself writer-creator Timothy Greenberg stays more grounded by focusing on the question of how people can wrestle with the worst parts of their natures to become better people.
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Following the Pulse nightclub shooting in Orlando, our sister site Broadly published a list of singers who had not yet responded to the tragedy, pointing out that many who had adapted elements of queer culture to their own ends, and who had made quick posts on attacks of similar natures, were now silent.
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Interpreting this provision strictly arguably could bar the addition of a new major character, which the letter seems to allege has taken place, but it also could be interpreted more broadly to allow for changes that are consistent with the spirit of the novel and meaning that existing characters' natures cannot be changed.
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Rather than focusing on a return to an idyllic nature and childhood relationship, what is urgently needed is climate change education for young children that is situated within the actual ecological contexts in which all children's everyday lives are situated — not just the natures that privileged children can access in forest kindergarten and preschools.
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The puritanism of feminism, meanwhile, would be more realistic if it could acknowledge that crucial differences between men and women aren't just an artifact of sexism, and that the costs that promiscuity imposes and the unhappiness it breeds might actually be woven into the deeper natures of how both sexes love and mate and reproduce.
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Meanwhile on other questions, less hot-button but also crucial to Catholicism — the nature of communion, the relationship between Jesus' divine and human natures, the possibility that God might actually want a believer to commit a serious sin if it relieves suffering — Martin has lately asserted a number of views that seem at odds with traditional teaching.
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Jeff Orlowski's doc The Social Dilemma makes the case that these platforms are not some passive mirror of our inner natures, but an active manipulator of them, and backs it up with confirmation directly from the tech-industry insiders who once worked behind the scenes to dial up our engagement and then sell it to the highest bidder.
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In regards to illegal immigration, Democrats have more issues on this than the mainstream media would choose to discuss: the 800-plus illegal immigrants that the erstwhile mayor of Oakland decided to warn regarding ICE raids were in fact criminals, with violent records of robbery and sexual natures who had been deemed threats to public safety.
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So what women have to do is band together to raise their voices louder, to talk and write more often, speak more in unison, and keep our wonderful sense of humor, our caring natures, our ability to totally focus on speakers and ask intelligent questions, and then fully appreciate the fact that The Times is encouraging us to talk and write.
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Some of the largest investments to date have been in companies like Blueprint Power, which raised $4 million for its technology that provides energy efficiency and demand response tools connecting real estate portfolios to the power grid; Roadbotics, roadway monitoring to optimize maintenance spending for cities, utilities and construction firms, which raised $11.4 million; and Versatile Natures, which provides safety and budget management tools for construction sites.
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Others only reveal their true natures at certain times, like Wagner Malta Tavares's glow-in-the-dark lamppost "Malpertuis" (2016), which shines a lunar yellow-green at night, or Rob Pruitt's modified limousine "Stretch, Grill and Chill" (2016), which has a grill instead of a motor and whose trunk was converted into a cooler so that it serves as a de facto party car (whenever the BBQ master is on duty).
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In his foundational essay, "The Painter of Modern Life" (1863), Charles Baudelaire describes the perfect flaneur or passionate spectator: To be away from home and yet feel oneself everywhere at home; to see the world, to be at the center of the world, and yet to remain hidden from the world–such are a few of the slightest pleasures of those independent, passionate, impartial natures which the tongue can but clumsily define.
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A variety of opinions is not only absolutely necessary to our natures but is likewise of all things most useful, since if all men were of one mind, there would be no need of councils, no subject of learning and eloquence…Within this process we shall hear one another patiently, put the weight of every man's reason against our own, and at last form a judgment upon the matter which will be honest and commendable.
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