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Fiction about actual historical persons, so intrinsically conflicted and impure, feels like part of postmodernism's rampant eclecticism.

By John Updike Fiction about actual historical persons, so intrinsically conflicted and impure, feels like part of postmodernism's rampant eclecticism.

On a wall near the entrance, he points to a certificate from the Grand Mosque in Paris certifying the factory as halal, or free of impure products like alcohol or pork.

In contrast to the pure indexicals, the reference of impure indexicals like 'he'sheshe', and 'it' is not typically thought to be characterizable purely in terms of stable rules which themselves make reference to some abstract aspect of the context.

Second, some have disputed Kaplan's claim that pure indexicals like 'I' are wholly insensitive to the speaker's mental states.[12] Third, it is unclear that anything like Kaplan's apparatus of inter-contextually-stable characters can be extended to account for impure indexicals like 'this' or 'that'that

Jordan Gross, co-founder of Bethnal Green venue Oval Space, suggests that the Metropolitan Police should instead be focusing their efforts on harm reduction and welfare for those attending late-night events, especially given the spate of drug-related deaths due to impure substances like PMA.

To which I'd say: (a) he is a good writer - inventive, vivid; (b) it isn't impure or unliterary to like or admire novels because they bring you news - Zola down a coal mine, Dickens in a slum, Tom Wolfe in Wall Street.

(Beware the hatred-licensing power of words like "impure" and "unnatural").

Classicism begins to look like an impure, iffy proposition in an installation halfway through the show, where the marble head of a startled-looking Hellenistic goddess is sandwiched between Brancusi's neo-Cycladic "Bird in Space" (1923) and a Grecian evening gown designed, around 1965, by Madame Grès.

This made me a great believer in musical cross-fertilisation, and I still enjoy "impure" sorts of music, like when a fashionable dance creeps into a Bach fugue, or Stravinsky's gritty modernism marries with Russian folk.

The Socialist Prime Minister Manuel Valls says he sees behind fashion concepts like the burkini, "the idea that by their nature women are immodest, impure, that they should therefore be completely covered.

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