Their whole meaning and virtue is in their unredeemed lowness, not only in the sense of obscenity, but lowness of outlook in every direction whatever… Like the music halls, they are a sort of saturnalia, a harmless rebellion against virtue".
"Their whole meaning and virtue is in their unredeemed lowness, not only in the sense of obscenity, but lowness of outlook in every direction whatever," George Orwell wrote admiringly of Donald McGill's saucy seaside postcards.
The country splits into two halves as far as the prevalence of selective abortion of females foetuses is concerned, reflected in the lowness of female-male ratio at birth.
The lowness of the Michigan estimate is especially puzzling since its cutoff figure for poverty is $4,330, which is slightly higher than the commonly accepted one.
And it seemed wrong that they should be deprived of him; in her lowness at the time she had even said so, had felt she should be punished further for her failure to keep a marriage together, should lose them, too.
A street-side news vender, with an apparent nonchalance belying the untouchable lowness of his trade, approached my partly open window.
Though the movie does reveal that politics can be fruitful, Lincoln achieves success only because of his willingness to betray his moral compass, encourage others to do the same and engage in the lowness, nastiness and corruption that make the masses despise politics.
The people taking refuge in this place fit only for animals - the ox seems less a witness to Christ's coming than dumb evidence of the lowness and poverty of the setting - are truly outcast.
The most striking thing about the haircut is the severity, and the lowness, of the side parting.
They tried to grade the intellectual status of men, apes and women; of Nordic, Slavic and Mediterranean races; of long-headed and broad-headed peoples; they graded them according to the average distance between penis and navel, on the closeness of their eyes, on the lowness of their foreheads.
