"He who has enough to satisfy his want," a philosopher declared in the fourteenth century, "and nevertheless ceaselessly labors to acquire riches, either to obtain a higher social position or that subsequently he may have enough to live without labor, or that his sons may become men of wealth and importance--all are incited by a damnable avarice, sensuality or pride".
"I didn't know the video was going to incite all those conversations," Matsoukas said, closing her laptop.
Even after he got drunk and called us 'F-ing Jews' who incite all the world's wars, Hollywood still cast him in films.
Looking back upon the history of hetero-conservancy in this country, on its insularity, its need to strengthen the family ties that bind, there has always been a determination to find new ways to incite all the old battles lost.
Pericles lived during the first two and a half years of the Peloponnesian War and, according to Thucydides, his death was a disaster for Athens, since his successors were inferior to him; they preferred to incite all the bad habits of the rabble and followed an unstable policy, endeavoring to be popular rather than useful.
Despite its showcasing of the grim, hard work of single mothering, "16 and Pregnant" seems calculated, above all, to incite viewers of "The Hills" to working-class voyeurism, given how many clichés of lower-income Middle American life are exploited.
Now, Plummer is tepidly toeing the edge of the spotlight that shines on football-crazed Denver, incited all the more by Peyton Manning's arrival.
If I wanted to, I could probably start another India-Pakistan war all by myself, or incite some quiet office worker in Reston, Virginia, to try to overthrow the United States government.
And for all the terror they incite, the flesh-eating characters aren't half as sinister as classic vampires who require constant infusions of fresh blood to stay alive.
