Images on Sunday evening of skirmishes between the police and protesters — police batons waving and objects being hurled — raised the prospect of more widespread clashes or a lasting taint on the summit meeting.
For decades, psychologists have been leery about associating personality traits with physical characteristics, because of the lasting taint of phrenology and eugenics; studying faces this way was, in essence, a taboo.
The gods must be, as it were, disinfected of belief; the last taint of the sacrifice, and of the urgent practical interest, the selfish prayer, must be washed away from them, before that other divinity can come to light in the imagination.
They were worried, Mr. Perkins said, that the broad recommendation issued on Thursday against consuming any bagged spinach would confuse consumers and might leave a long-lasting taint on fresh spinach.
In the eyes of anyone who searches for Mr. Birnbaum online, the taint could last a very long time.
Judge Dennis Shedd, questioning how long the Trump "taint" would last, asked, to laughter in the court, "What if he said sorry every day for a year?
The panel is the latest player in the tug of war, lasting months, over the vote, which was widely perceived as being seriously tainted by fraud and skewed by rampant insecurity, which kept large numbers of people from the polls.
In a process expected to last about six weeks, tainted soil will be removed from all of the 210 miles of rural roadsides sprayed with the oil.
Eriksson lasted 67 matches but will be tainted by his conservative approach, overly reliant on his star names, David Beckham and Michael Owen.
"How long does the taint last for this administration?" asked U.S. Circuit Judge Albert Diaz, one of the 4th Circuit's newer members.
While I know this can't last forever, I am holding on with both hands to the dwindling days left when he doesn't worry about how his hair looks or how a grade might taint his GPA.
