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It is a day for rattling swords, a day of zinc coffins, a day of aggression, a day of great hypocrisy and great baseness.

How Russians Lost The War

Indeed, she singles out artisanship as a defining characteristic of the plebs' baseness when she curses them for banishing Coriolanus: "Now the red pestilence strike all trades in Rome, / And occupations perish

"Beloved of all the trades in Rome": oeconomics, occupation, and the gendered body in Coriolanus

However it is the baseness of the tale with its sleazy lines that makes it so real.

THEATRE

That they at least do not contribute to the baseness and demoralization of society.

Death and Work

Alternatively, they offer an experience that elevates instinct and baseness, flaunting Hobbesian boorishness.

Sean Bluechel at Nicole Klagsbrun: a Review by Adam Welch

It is also dangerous to allow him too clear a vision of his greatness without his baseness.

Minds, Brains, Souls and Gods: A Conversation on Faith, Psychology and Neuroscience

Now I know why - so that we understand and see Modi in his full baseness and come to terms with the fact that such unrefinement can also be part of a party which prides itself on Indian, nay, Hindu culture and tradition.

Thumbs down!

For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks m accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men.

Handgunner says

Note that gay "marriage" significantly lacks a name of its own to connote its unique unspeakable baseness.

Democracy and the golden mean

Was it a statement of the fundamental baseness of man?

The Lottery

It is as if this man gave us at once the lewd and revolting spectacle of his baseness, exorcising at a single stroke that baseness common to all of us, and, at the very core of this proclaimed disgrace, the upsurging of an irreducible and 'in spite of everything' faith.

Intelligence on the siege of Augsburg

Thus in Book 3 Socrates puts emphasis on the fact that the young guardians must be raised and educated in an environment devoid of "images of baseness and injustice".