revilement

• “It is but natural that in the face of scepticism which I cannot share I should feel greater faith, that in the face of revilement a sense of the glory of the thing belittled should settle upon me.”

  The Kempton-Wace Letters

• “Our survival depends on human revilement of the decomposing corpse as much as it does the entropy that somehow draws us in to the two stages of death that somehow remain poignantly beautiful to us--the initial departure from life and the ultimate disappearance of all trace of that which once was an animated, vital, and special entity.”

  The Huffington Post: G. Roger Denson: Holocaust and Redemption in the Photography of Susan Silas

• “Yet, even to accomplish this much in iconographic terms, Silas had to solve the problem of our revilement of corporeal decomposition.”

  The Huffington Post: G. Roger Denson: Holocaust and Redemption in the Photography of Susan Silas

• “Cleon, the hero of the Peloponnesian war, advocated the public renouncement of friends upon dealing with public affairs -- he paid for it with some revilement by historians.”

  The Huffington Post: Nassim Nicholas Taleb: The Regulator Franchise, or the Alan Blinder Problem

• “They should be objects of shame, ridicule and revilement.”

  How hard can it be to be a competent president?

• “We reject the idea that queers should organize for access to the military that depends on our revilement for its existence, rather than for the right to privacy, the right to public life, and the right to life free from militarism.”

  January « 2008 « Bill Ayers

• “Ever since the gay couple made their relationship public in November and had a wedding ceremony on Jan 3, they have been the subject of revilement from family and friends.”

  Archive 2010-01-01

• “As with her Egyptian alter ego Cleopatra, the very qualities that render Berenice so seductive a subject for a modern audience made her an object of suspicion and revilement among a number of Roman observers.”

  Simon & Schuster: Caesars’ Wives

• “Being a member of a UCC church myself, I highly doubt that the charge was one of hatred and revilement.”

  Obama: I "Profoundly Disagree" With Pastor Over "God Damn America" Comments

• “I suppose it is interesting that we continue to demonize the small-scale criminal, the citizen who murders their neighbor, while those who destroy the lives of thousands are spared the same revilement because their crime is not physically violent, though the result will still be pain and suffering, and, in some instances, death.”

  Coffee and Conversation with Hegel and Manfried Grossbart – by Jesse Bullington

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