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The stories of these men have acquired a new currency in our unnerving era of incrementally eroded civil rights, yet none can claim the iconic status of Tom Paine, unerring champion of reason in the face of religion and inherited privilege, author of The Rights of Man, and a founding father of the American Republic.
In allowing disparaging remarks about his sister and mother to go unchallenged he compromised his value system, and in effect his self-respect was incrementally eroded and transformed into self-loathing.
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Telomeres incrementally erode in most somatic cells upon each round of DNA replication, until they reach critical short length which eventually initiates a cessation of cell growth termed cellular senescence [2].
Also, and more specifically: writing movies (he had one made, "War Inc.," a political satire starring John Cusack and Ben Kingsley, released in 2008); befriending movie stars (he's now pretty good pals with Cusack); and doing work-for-hire script doctoring that is lucrative but incrementally soul-eroding in a frog-in-the-boiling-water kind of way.
An eroded talent base.
That gradually eroded.
Health benefits have eroded.
But our dominance has eroded.
"That commitment is being eroded".
But gradually that civility eroded.
Without question, security has eroded.
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