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  • The GOP needs to combine unvicious criticism of Obama with a forward-looking, positive, constructive message, or its gains in November will be limited.

    Let’s revisit Obama and Alinsky 2010

  • It had been unvicious, young, and highly entertaining, and it had cost Judson Clark his membership in his father's conservative old clubs.

    The Breaking Point Mary Roberts Rinehart 1917

  • They are indeed superior in strong dramatic and realistic effects; but, unvicious as may be their aim, they are not filled with a robust morality: they deliberately choose unclean elements to heighten the interest, -- albeit using such elements with magnificent strength and skill.

    A Study of Hawthorne George Parsons Lathrop 1874

  • It was neither lost nor wasted there; it became the inheritance of his only daughter, a woman of extreme energy, who had from childhood loved -- more, methinks, as a mother loves a helpless child -- a good-hearted, unvicious piece of indolence and sloth.

    Fables of John Gay (Somewhat Altered) John Gay 1708

  • _nolens volens_; and Providence assigned to him an energetic woman, to make his castle of indolence a bed of roses to the satisfaction of them both, -- supplying for each the energy and the repose, both constitutional, both unvicious, which the other lacked.

    Fables of John Gay (Somewhat Altered) John Gay 1708

  • They are indeed superior in strong dramatic and realistic effects; but, unvicious as may be their aim, they are not filled with a robust morality: they deliberately choose unclean elements to heighten the interest, ” albeit using such elements with magnificent strength and skill.

    A Study Of Hawthorne Lathrop, George P 1876

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