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The same arguments apply to that body of electors whose motive power is sentiment their folly must be pandered to. For instance, the Transvaal Convention that Mrs. Carr mentioned is an admirable example of how such pandering is done.
It was looked upon as a disgrace to be a woman, to have a sex, to become a mother. That was it. They called it working for Heaven, for higher interests, for humanity, but it was merely a pandering to vanity, to selfishness, to a desire for fame or notoriety. And he had pitied her, he had suffered remorse because her sterility had made him angry.
These base, bawling, baseball ranters, who have gotten their pulpit manners from the bleachers, do little beyond deepening superstition, pandering to the ignorance of the mob, holding progress back, and securing unto themselves much moneys. They mark the degeneration of a dying religion, that is kept alive by frequent injections of sensationalism. Light awaits them just beyond.
Pandering to the worst of human passions was the office of his nature; and faithfully he did his work! 'I am not angry, observed Mr Pecksniff. 'I am hurt, Mr Chuzzlewit; wounded in my feelings; but I am not angry, my good sir. Mr Chuzzlewit resumed.
In spite of the hatred of the journalists pandering to the prejudice of their paymasters, one could hope still that the magistrate would show some regard for fair play. The expectation, reasonable or unreasonable, was doomed to disappointment. On Saturday morning, the 6th, Oscar Wilde, "described as a gentleman," the papers said in derision, was brought before Sir John Bridge. Mr.
The path to popularity and eminence was not open to anyone who did not speak according to the prevailing fashion. The false prophets won and kept their popularity by pandering to the opinions and prejudices of the people.
She's in the comprehension of the little varnished shelves asleep." "Doesn't a tight look come about the eyes from much use of that sort of anæsthetic?" I asked. "Let's get a drink," he answered. But the stroke of death has fallen upon such pandering, and the war put it there.
In 1908 Illinois passed the first pandering law in this country, changing the offence from disorderly conduct to a misdemeanor, and greatly increasing the penalty. In many states pandering is still so little defined as to make the crime merely a breach of manners and to put it in the same class of offences as selling a street-car transfer.
Paul says, and yet there am I, trafficking in glittering splendours with wealthy women and titled libertines, and pandering to the meanest vanities I, who have health and strength enough for anything. I have been troubled in my mind about it all the year, and the end is that I cannot do it any more." "Why can't you do it as well as others?"
Not to speak of the old African's disgust with the new Colonial Army, which was for the most part recruited from the lowest elements of the nation, by way of pandering to the egoism and cowardice of the rest, who refuse to share in the honor and the risks of securing the defense of "greater France" France beyond the seas.
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