It's pretty tempting to dissect what makes Jamie T such an original, relatable and resoundingly appealing artist, but I'll desist for now – just in case he keeps his word.
"I hope he will desist... Let him desist".
For once the pundits will desist From Hyper Bowl hyperbole.
Now, therefore, let us all do as I say; let us bring down the ships that are on the beach and draw them into the water; let us make them fast to their mooring-stones a little way out, against the fall of night- if even by night the Trojans will desist from fighting; we may then draw down the rest of the fleet.
A rat whose presses on a lever are followed by the delivery of a food pellet will press the lever again; if the only consequence of pressing the lever is the delivery of a painful shock, the rat will desist from this action.
Fear of being recognized will desist the offender from committing the crime.
This is because much crime is caused by the presence of easy opportunities and when those opportunities are removed some portion of offenders will desist from participating in crime altogether (Felson and Clarke 1998).
The law, Aquinas suggests, must use "force and fear" in order to restrain those who are "found to be depraved, and prone to vice, and not easily amenable to words," so that they will "desist from evil-doing, and leave others in peace," as well as become "habituated in this way," and "virtuous" (Aquinas, ST, I.II Q95 A1).
It is probably too much to hope you will desist from printing these inane articles but could you, at least, balance them with some that promote humanism and rationalism?
There is no love between the subjects of Dominick and Eliot 1979, a famous photograph of Mapplethorpe's, in which one man is hung upside down next to another, standing right side up, holding a cigarette – but the man holding the cigarette will desist or the game is over.
