Through sins of sense, perversities of will, Through doubt and pain, through guilt and shame and ill, Thy pitying eye is on Thy creature still.
He addressed himself to the most influential rabbi of the time, Ben Adret of Barcelona, and charged that theirperversities would accomplish the dissolution of Judaism, if a restraint were not put upon them.
Strindberg has obtained, because of his own neurotic and almost feminine clairvoyance, a diabolical insight into the perversities of the feminine character.
Gorlois's pride and self-love never dragged in the wind, but held him taut to the storm, as though determined to weather all the perversities of which a woman's heart is capable.
The perversities of Thurlow having led to his fall in 1792, Loughborough became Lord Chancellor.
But the moral thought itself in Tacitus mostly belongs less to the practical wisdom of life, than to sombre poetic indignation, like that of Dante, against the perversities of men and the blindness of fortune.
Just because the hypnotizer can entirely change the desires and passions, the habits and perversities of the suffering victim, he seems to them a moral wrongdoer who negates the principle of human freedom.
It seems like a return to the days of the priests of Baal, so vulgar and disgusting do these perversities appear.
What temperamental perversities in him must be accepted by me as fixed facts, conditioning all I say?
What temperamental perversities in me must be set aside in order to render my reader's approach to what I would tell him pleasant?
Are not all these fateful perversities cumulative wrath upon my own guilty head?
One whose sympathies are with either party may rightly claim that it be fairly presented, its limitations, excesses, and even its perversities being excused or palliated, where reasons can be shown.
The moral perversities of men are gulfs guarded by sphinxes; they begin and end in questions to which there is no answer.
He was not the man to let his mind dwell on the woes and evils of the world; and the follies and perversities which cause them interested him only so far as they provided material for his wit.
But the important point to notice is that, whatever may be the perversities or the affectations of his thought, Mr. Huxley always writes well, with a style that is never shabby or shoddy, never flamboyant or flat.
Although many arbitrary perversities and extravagant fancies may be found in Oken's philosophy of nature, they must not prevent us paying our just admiration to these grand ideas, which were so far in advance of their age.
But that surely cannot be an argument for giving up the battle against the moral perversities of metropolitan life.
The most grotesque perversities can be justified if one looks crookedly enough, and so I justified the indifference I had forced on you as indecently as I had wrecked your love.
But I thought I would wait a little while before thoroughly disliking 'poor' Antony, as it might be just one more of those freak perversities which you and I have often been so impatient about in both of them.
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