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  • To date, the critic who has studied Hemans most searchingly as a consolatory writer is Michael Williamson, in Impure Affections: Felicia Hemans's

    'A darkling plain': Hemans, Byron and _The Sceptic; A Poem_ 2001

  • You must wear a sarong and sash while visiting a temple although you are permitted to go in with footwear, Mensturating women are not allowed inside and you cannot enter the temple when you are 'Impure' (?)

    DesiPundit 2009

  • Also in the UK, in Brighton, England the Impure Gallery (which calls itself "a naughty little gallery") is showing some nude photographs of the young Madonna from 1979.

    June 2009 2009

  • Impure thoughts, maybe? jh: Is claiming something is ‘objectively wrong’ basically just another way of saying you feel strongly about it; or is there some other criteria that you have in mind?

    Matthew Yglesias » Too Hot for CBS 2010

  • Impure intentions of the embittered and the desperate, missing what once was which many did not favor, feeling rebuffed by a government who professed to represent us, the common average hardworking invisible people of Fiji.

    Global Voices in English » Fiji: Tension rises between government and Methodist Church 2009

  • Hers is hardly a household name and rarely, if at all, is she mentioned amongst the scandalous wives who bore the label Fashionable Impure.

    Jo Manning on Sophia Catherine Musters Elizabeth Kerri Mahon 2010

  • Hers is hardly a household name and rarely, if at all, is she mentioned amongst the scandalous wives who bore the label Fashionable Impure.

    Archive 2010-05-01 Elizabeth Kerri Mahon 2010

  • [For a more advanced discussion, see: Alaya and Impure Appearance-Making.]

    7 Non-Gelug Variations Concerning General Tantra 2009

  • Biello, D., 2007: Impure as the Driven Snow – Smut is a bigger problem than greenhouse gases in polar meltdown.

    Anthropogenic Climate Change In Serious Doubt « Unambiguously Ambidextrous 2009

  • When I put together Impure, about the spoken word scene in Mtl with coauthor Victoria Stanton we tried to approach the topic with as wide a net as possible - as inclusive as we knew how to be - an approach I'd been introduced to via feminist theory - the idea being, it's all a continuum of forms, some serve one purpose, some another.

    What poetry can learn from Obama Lemon Hound 2009

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