Inquisitionary love

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  • One has to wonder what the underlying motive for Apocalypto is--my personal suspicion is that it is meant to whitewash Inquisitionary genocide and conversion by portraying the victims as bloodthirsty thugs with cannibalistic tendencies.

    "Gibson is a primitive all right, but so were Cecil B. DeMille and D. W. Griffith, and somehow we survived their idiocies." Ann Althouse 2006

  • Inquisitionary deputies at Valladolid that they had caught a Tartar.

    Fray Luis de León A Biographical Fragment James Fitzmaurice-Kelly

  • Towards the end of the proceedings at Valladolid the Inquisitionary judges there summoned before them Juan Galvan, a young theological student who lodged with Salinas, the blind musician.

    Fray Luis de León A Biographical Fragment James Fitzmaurice-Kelly

  • In other matters, less urgent but not less important from an orthodox point of view, the Inquisitionary judges at Valladolid made no concession to the prisoner.

    Fray Luis de León A Biographical Fragment James Fitzmaurice-Kelly

  • Nearly six months had been wasted owing to want of tact on the part of the Inquisitionary officials.

    Fray Luis de León A Biographical Fragment James Fitzmaurice-Kelly

  • Madrid on December 2, 1571; on December 13 the Inquisitionary

    Fray Luis de León A Biographical Fragment James Fitzmaurice-Kelly

  • In other matters, less urgent but not less important from an orthodox point of view, the Inquisitionary judges at Valladolid made no concession to the prisoner.

    Fray Luis de Leon Fitzmaurice-Kelly, James 1921

  • He must have thought of 'old, unhappy, far-off things 'as he entered the Court and recognized the Inquisitionary secretary with the singular name of Celedon Gustin; these remembrances probably led him to take additional precautions.

    Fray Luis de Leon Fitzmaurice-Kelly, James 1921

  • Before very long it must have dawned upon the Inquisitionary deputies at Valladolid that they had caught a Tartar.

    Fray Luis de Leon Fitzmaurice-Kelly, James 1921

  • Towards the end of the proceedings at Valladolid the Inquisitionary judges there summoned before them Juan Galvan, a young theological student who lodged with Salinas, the blind musician.

    Fray Luis de Leon Fitzmaurice-Kelly, James 1921

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