Yes, they discuss their degradation ("Perhaps it was the true measure of my corruption," Henry reflects, "that I didn't feel corrupted in the least"), but little is gained or lost.
"That, to me, is ridiculous!" The system of loans "feels corrupt," he explained.
It is an analysis of the power-fetishism that he feels has corrupted the materialistic political science of Communism as established by Lenin, and is a call to reform.
As such, I'm often asked if sex work empowers me, if it's safe, or if I feel morally corrupted by it.
Kramer, in turn, viewed those who ruled the amateur game as more concerned with maintaining their power than enhancing the sport and felt they were corrupted by undercover payments to players.
Mr. Kilroe feels that Hines was corrupted by dubious associates he met as a blacksmith rather than by his Tammany brethren.
For a moment, my own melting pleasure in Renaissance aestheticism felt shamefully corrupt and foolishly dangerous.
In August, the union extended invitations to company representatives to meet about their grievances — including low pay, long and unregulated hours, and management practices they felt were corrupt — but they were rebuffed.
Using standardized key-indicators was felt to corrupt the idea that all quality improvements must be fit towards local circumstances and needs [ 12, 21].
But even then the appeal is pure mood: in this high-end universe, everything feels at once corrupt, delectable, and melancholy, with that quality of "world-weariness" which serves as an aesthetic simulacrum of sophistication.
