Along with the cultural elite of Europe and America came less elevated visitors, and Christiansen devotes an entire chapter to the craze for foreign "spirit-rappers," the spiritualists, mediums, psychics and soothsayers who played on Victorian credulity by shifting furniture, appearing to float around the room and summoning up the dead.
Given that at least half of Catalan residents are Castilian-speaking immigrants, or recent descendants of immigrants from the rest of Spain, on the contrary, bullfighting is an integral part of the culture of a significant section of Catalan society and not, as Tóibín states, "part of a strange, dark, foreign, Iberian spirit".
His empire of liquor stores and manufacturers was immense: Besides 16,000 liquor stores in Uttar Pradesh, Mr. Chadha controlled three distilleries, which produced beer and "country-made liquor" – that is, indigenous Indian drinks like arrack — as well as what is known as "Indian-made foreign liquor," spirits like rum and whiskey, under the Raffles and Wave brands.
That statement captures the bullish spirit foreign executives like to exude when discussing China.
Hard-line traditionalists denied that Shylock could be Jewish, because revenge was so foreign to the spirit of Judaism.
His conscious, open, and unashamed acknowledgment of earlier contributions to scientific inquiry was foreign to the spirit, method, and purpose of the theologians of the time.
When the leader of the global system proclaims that he won't be bound by foreign restraints, the spirit becomes infectious.
It is introducing a very dangerous precedent, and is quite foreign to the spirit of our age.' Written near 100 A.D. by Emperor Trajan to Pliny the Younger in response to Pliny's interesting report of his prosecution of Christians.
This necessity of paying for the privilege of going to work, and paying more the more urgently the job is needed, not only keeps people unnecessarily unemployed, but seems foreign to the spirit of American freedom and opportunity.
After Stalin's death, the central committee began explaining that it is foreign to the spirit of Marxism-Leninism to elevate one person, to transform him into a superman possessing supernatural characteristics, akin to those of a god.
If there is any truth to the Freudian notion that people who suffer from germ phobia and constantly wash their hands are afflicted with unbearable feelings of guilt, Lazar would have to be the guiltiest man on earth, but guilt is absolutely foreign to his spirit.
