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  • However cheery their next meal might have seemed, the director established their schizm by shooting it from an adjoining room so that a wall formed a black panel down the middle of the screen between them.

    Wildlife : Bev Vincent 2010

  • IMHO, Paul represents what I think will evolve into a GOP schizm.

    Ron Paul, Future of the GOP? 2007

  • Right now, as it stands, our recommendations only create a psychic and moral schizm in the minds of women who have been coerced into sex because what they feel, and what they deal with in private, does not match the outward social reaction and legal response.

    Why define rape? 2006

  • If if enough people start to think the same way, pretty soon you have a schizm sp or a reformation or a counter-reformation and a lot of fussing and fuming and maybe a lot of blood before everyone settles down again.

    Firedoglake » A Priest, a Progressive, and and A TheoCon Walk into a Bar… 2006

  • Right now, as it stands, our recommendations only create a psychic and moral schizm in the minds of women who have been coerced into sex because what they feel, and what they deal with in private, does not match the outward social reaction and legal response.

    Why define rape? 2006

  • This dovetails nicely with our recent discussion and Norquist apparently addresses the social values schizm toward the end of the book [Craig Matteson review]:

    Three Sources JohnGalt 2010

  • Science and Religion both evolve, but various institutions that rise out of them will eventually schizm.

    Armed and Dangerous esr 2010

  • And I also had a difficult time internalizing the obvious schizm in Nathan Drake's personality.

    Epinions Recent Content for Home 2009

  • I am just glad that they have now reached a point in their ideology where this schizm is not merely apparent but obvious!

    AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed 2009

  • I am just glad that they have now reached a point in their ideology where this schizm is not merely apparent but obvious!

    AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed 2009

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  • schism

    June 12, 2016