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Now that she was living in the diaspora, this religious control mechanism could lead only to denial and hypocrisy, self-undoing and destruction.
Nomad Ayaan Hirsi Ali 2010
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Now that she was living in the diaspora, this religious control mechanism could lead only to denial and hypocrisy, self-undoing and destruction.
Nomad Ayaan Hirsi Ali 2010
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Everything since has seemed a displacement, a deracination. …the speaker of these poems often teeters says Newey on the edge of self-undoing, looking forward and back and uncertain whether he is the watcher or the watched.
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Now that she was living in the diaspora, this religious control mechanism could lead only to denial and hypocrisy, self-undoing and destruction.
Nomad Ayaan Hirsi Ali 2010
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Everything since has seemed a displacement, a deracination. …the speaker of these poems often teeters says Newey on the edge of self-undoing, looking forward and back and uncertain whether he is the watcher or the watched.
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Demons can manifest as inner tendencies, such as fear, doubt, self-undoing, low self-esteem, rage, and other disabling emotions.
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In short, the "metaphorical substitution" is in fact a self-undoing trope that self-deconstructs into the catachrestic imposition of a name.
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O mysterious word! mysterious the resistance of such patient Love -- mysterious the liberty of self-undoing!
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Not that in this fall, or self-undoing, it suffers any thing which is called justice, under the political analogies.
The Vicarious Sacrifice, Grounded in Principles of Universal Obligation. 1802-1876 1871
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Hayes says today that he regrets using the word inevitable, adding that the environmental movement sometimes encounters a "self-undoing hypothesis" -- warnings that cause corrective actions that keep the warnings from coming true.
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