Sentence examples for pernicious identities from inspiring English sources

(2008, 46) Parsell also notes the existence of inherently pernicious identities and communities that may be enabled or enhanced by some Web 2.0 tools—he cites the example of apotemnophiliacs, or would-be amputees, who use such resources to create mutually supportive networks in which their self-destructive desires receive validation.

Another considers such identities pernicious, anti-American.

While these statements want to suggest a somehow admirable desire to "empathize" with the oppressed subjects, this sentimental gesture both mirrors and exploits a widespread, quite pernicious cultural confusion about identity and suffering.

Serbia's incoherent international identity and pernicious historical legacies also present major obstacles to its EU membership aspirations.

(Laurel Graeber) 'Blood Knot' Scott Shepherd ("Gatz") and Colman Domingo ("The Scottsboro Boys") play brothers united by blood but divided by skin color in Athol Fugard's play about the brutalities of apartheid and, more universally, the way pernicious social forces can warp identity.

Child identity theft is especially pernicious because it can go undetected for years, unearthed only when the victim goes for a driver's license or a student loan, only to be turned down.

The average cost of restoring a stolen identity is reckoned to be $8,000, and victims spend typically 600 hours dealing with the nightmare plus many years more restoring their good name and credit record.As a crime, identity theft is far more pernicious than traditional payment fraud which happens when someone uses your check-book, ATM card or credit card illegally.

Crucially, that race-swapping happens in name alone, making it the moral opposite of blackface: Meg borrows the historically pernicious authority of the state to enforce racial identity, while changing nothing about the way she and her daughter look or behave.

For them, stopping people from peeing in a bathroom that matches their gender identity is nothing less than blocking a pernicious liberal experiment and upholding religious values.

Interestingly, Patrick Tierney's recent book, "Darkness in El Dorado," tells a similar story, focusing on the abuses of a research team that studied a tribe of Indians in the Amazon in the 1960s, yet McFeely's is especially important for what it suggests--in a magnificently concise manner--about the pernicious, almost unconscious influence anthropologists had in shaping our national identity.

While there is no mainstream "Aryan" political party in India, the Dravidianization of mainstream identity in the southern state of Tamil Nadu keeps the pernicious pair alive.