Of course, drugs can also be used in court to taint character, a witness, defendant, or a victim of crime.
Of course, drugs can also be used in court to taint character, a witness a defendant or a victim of crime.
But antisemitic ideas were previously thought to have tainted his character rather than touched the core of his philosophy – not least by Jewish thinkers such as Hannah Arendt or Jacques Derrida, who cited their debt to Heidegger.
Reid said that the newly revealed content "seems to be part of an effort to taint my character with false information".
"It taints the character," he said.
In some quarters, unfortunately, Yates Stirling has become known almost exclusively for his one serious lapse in judgment: the celebrated Massie case, in which he was dead wrong — and by the time he published Sea Duty, he knew he was — but allowed personal prejudices totally to blind his reason and his judgment as well as to taint his character: Chapter 16 makes difficult reading.
Not only would he taint her character, but devalue her work by giving readers the impression she would be lost without his guidance, "destined to disaster and wreck as a ship set adrift on the ocean without rudder, compass, or helmsman".
Scaled carp were omitted because of the possibility that they were tainted with hereditary characters of the wild carp.
Similarly Ms. Chung's character feels tainted by artifice.
'PULP FICTION' -- Based on "Der Ring des Nibelungen" of Richard Wagner: in an enigmatically circular story, bigger-than-life characters pursue tainted wealth and forbidden love.
Even outside the Dirty Harry series, Eastwood's characters were tainted; they might be selfish and egotistical (though never cowardly), stupidly macho (though never weak), eagerly mercenary (though never bourgeois).
