It left me uncertain of how to feel about this sub-sect of society, so goodness knows how anyone of a more traditionally puce-faced irascibility might react.
And it's exactly this odd sect of society we're given all-access to as we enter the two-month awards season gauntlet.
The fear of HIV lies in the fear of another stigma, a "deserved" stigma by the larger sect of society on queer men.
Her desire to understand the different sects of Turkish society cost her 16 years of judicial harassment and, to an extent, her freedom.
On top of everything else the Monkey Bar is his social pulpit, affirming his ordination as the high priest of a certain fame-focused, power-obsessed sect of Manhattan society.
"Our demands are political ones, and have nothing to do with demands for a sect or segment of society," he said at Friday Prayer, according to an English translation distributed afterward.
The AKP comes from a conservative, Islamist legacy and now represents the more religious sects of the Turkish society, who, along with minority groups, were alienated by the military elite, in an attempt to protect the secular establishment.
We retreat from the broad plains of history into smoke-filled rooms where sects plot, splinter, make diagnoses of society which promptly implode.
In Turkey, where Sufism was suspected of being a covert sect with tentacles reaching into every corner of society, the post-Ottoman secular rulers closed Sufi lodges and outlawed the Whirling Dervishes, the hallmark of Sufism.
In contrast to more orthodox forms of Hinduism, the Caitanya sect like Islam was open to all members of society, regardless of caste or social rank.
