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1. Performing ―good‖ deeds for their own sake because it is good to do so does not address the question: by what conventional standards are such acts of goodness, good to begin with; and assuming that they are, whether the ―Will to Goodness‖ is driven by some inherent factor; that is to say, an (essential) moral goodness that resides within the doer of good deeds or conditioned, rather, by rewards and punishment, reciprocity or perhaps, fear, in which case, such acts of ―goodness‖, sullied by questionable (intent), are motivated, in part, by self-serving designs that are not (inherently) good in themselves
2. Still conscious of the gun in his waist holster, and feeling somehow sullied by the possession of it, he saw the being study his every inch
3. his continued alcohol and drug use sullied the flimsy
4. As there were no fireplaces or even room in the crowded club to throw a glass against the wall, they smashed their glasses on the floor, never to be sullied by a lesser purpose
5. He’d spring back from the grave if I sullied it by cooperating with you
6. "Regardless, she sullied him, dirtied him
7. Her surface beauty quickly waned, seemed sullied by a sooty cloud that came upon Her like a plague
8. To ascertain my presumption, and though where he had been was not really my path, I purposely passed by him to give a going over his sullied face
9. Sergeant Welky makes numerous appearances as Henry's mind is sullied with alcohol
10. On top of killing my parents and taking all that we owed, those bastards also took away my dignity and sullied me in an unspeakable way
11. over time was sullied; the rich became richer, always at the expense
12. and how the press and mega industries were enslaved and sullied to
13. There use to be the concept of the “Noble Savage” where adherents believed individuals from backwards cultures were somehow morally superior since they had not been sullied by the perceived decadence of more developed nations
14. By the very motive of trying to make people laugh at everything that’s wrong with civilized society, he sullied all of his personal honesty by not being taken seriously
15. light, the masses are cut out as simply as possible, and their colour is little sullied by light and shade
16. estranged by the loathsome information; could I then have returned to his sullied arms, but as a victim to the prejudices of mankind, who have made women the
17. purify it--yes, I blushed to think that its purity had been sullied, by allowing such a man to be its father
18. Locusta and Agrippina, living at the same time, were an exception, and proved the determination of providence to effect the entire ruin of the Roman empire, sullied by so many crimes
19. The Oval Office, the Navy Mess Hall, those are all historic places that deserve not to be sullied by romantic motives
20. It was true that the association with this man had been fatal to him—true that if he had had the thousand pounds still in his hands with all his debts unpaid he would have returned the money to Bulstrode, and taken beggary rather than the rescue which had been sullied with the suspicion of a bribe (for, remember, he was one of the proudest among the sons of men)—nevertheless, he would not turn away from this crushed fellow-mortal whose aid he had used, and make a pitiful effort to get acquittal for himself by howling against another
21. But I tell myself that I shall plot Sweet Revenges against this Villain, Lover, Devil; and e’en as I flee, I promise my sullied Soul and punish’d Pride that I shall have the Upper Hand ere long and one Day be his Master!
22. Ah too, too solid, too, too sullied Flesh! The Body is the Canvas whereupon the Soul paints its own Deformities! In my Whoring Days I had star’d with Disgust and Disbelief upon the ruin’d Bodies of Men—corpulent and gouty, red with Drink and swollen from Gluttony—and I had thought: E’en this Tub of Lard was once a sweet-faced Baby Boy
23. So they inwardly resolved that so long as they remained in the business, their piracies should not again be sullied with the crime of stealing
24. He was dressed now: he still looked pale, but he was no longer gory and sullied
25. He drew over the picture the sheet of thin paper on which I was accustomed to rest my hand in painting, to prevent the cardboard from being sullied
26. Gentlemen, you've sullied my heart! Can you suppose that I would conceal it from you, if I had really killed my father, that I would shuffle, lie, and hide myself? No, that's not like Dmitri Karamazov, that he couldn't do, and if I were guilty, I swear I shouldn't have waited for your coming, or for the sunrise as I meant at first, but should have killed myself before this, without waiting for the dawn! I know that about myself now
27. The verdict was rendered that I was a deceived husband, that I had killed in defence of my sullied honor (that is the way they put it in their language), and thus I was acquitted
28. Recognizing in a flash that he was ruined, in a sense annihilated, that he had disgraced himself and sullied his reputation, that he had been turned into ridicule and treated with contempt in the presence of spectators, that he had been treacherously insulted, by one whom he had looked on only the day before as his greatest and most trustworthy friend, that he had been put to utter confusion, Mr
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1. “Lady Rayne, please, do not sully your hands with this trash, we have the situation in control
2. ” Placing his hand on Rayne’s shoulder he felt her slowly relax, he whispered to her, “Ease down my little warrior, there is no need to sully K’nada with their blood
3. Regarding the continuing debt limit negotiations between Republicans and Democrats, „Obama, who once infamously said that he"d meet with murderous tyrants such as Castro, Chavez, and Ahmadinejad “without preconditions” apparently won"t sully the office by meeting for lunch with the Republican Senate Minority Leader
4. But why sully your love with resentments and hatreds?”
5. The doctor squeezed her loyal friends arm, “Thank you Sully, I need to go back and look at his notes again
6. she was separated from me by glass, as though I might sully the air
7. anything that might sully her reputation
8. or act of his shall ever sully it in the eyes of men, or cause them to think of it one whit less highly
9. How dare this damned woman contact him? How dare she sully the memories he cherished of his loved ones by sending this email? Gomes was about to delete the message but something deep inside of him told him not to
10. Do not sully their deaths by asking me to kill someone who cannot even stand up
11. Sully snorted and we both looked in his direction
12. By the time it was ready, Sully and Andrew were both awake
13. “Porridge! I can’t eat that,” Sully said, as he took the bowl from her
14. Sully grumbled, said he needed the toilet and disappeared quickly from the room
15. “What are you laughing about,” Sully said, lumping back down on the sofa
16. Sully snorted and picked at his teeth
17. I watched Sully mimic her actions and threw a cushion at him
18. “What is it with you, Sully?” I filled the bowl with the remaining porridge and passed it to Andy
19. We arrived at the shop, Sully was already inside, I could tell by his loud voice
20. Bennett holding Sully back with a broom
21. Sully backed away and ran out the door
22. Sully was lounging on the sofa, empty crisp packets and chocolate wrappers thrown on the floor around him
23. Sully had stormed off somewhere
24. And the jolt that sent me and Sully flying had nothing to do with the power, but everything to do with the power plant exploding
25. Sully held on to the hope that Poppy was still hiding somewhere
26. Sully paced while I fidgeted
27. “Maybe we should leave,” Sully said
28. ” Sully winced and wiped a hand across his mouth
29. Sully and I fixed the planks across the doorway the best we could and placed the hammer back in the shed
30. Jess stayed with Andy while Sully and I covered behind
31. ” Sully shifted his backpack
32. “You’d fit in quite nicely, Sully
33. Sully and I stared at each other
34. Sully reached out and tried the handle
35. Sully rooted through the undergrowth on the verge and found a small branch
36. I waited for them to pass the car and were a few yards up the road before I turned back to Sully
37. ” Andy did his chicken-head thing between Sully and me
38. ” Sully gestured with his head towards the ceiling
39. “What ya doing?” Sully flopped on the sofa beside me
40. “Can you get the radio to work on this?” Sully pointed at the torch
41. Sully and Andy didn’t question my instructions
42. “Why’d you do that for? Ask her if they want to come with us,” Sully said, grabbing his bag from the undergrowth
43. “Later then,” Sully growled
44. Sully and Jess arrived too late to hear our conversation
45. “Why?” Sully and Jess said at the same time
46. “Best do as he says,” Sully said
47. “Hard not to,” Sully said
48. ” I looked at Sully and Andy
49. ” Sully rubbed at his forehead
50. “I think, he means there must be a connection to us somehow,” Sully said, unsure himself
