Not the rue over years lost, nor for what could have or should have been, but the raw emotions that once dwelt inside me when I sensed no ability to reconcile an irreconcilable past that had tainted my mind and held my heart captive.
"Clearly, an enslaved mind, tainted by the experience of slavery, a mind born into slavery, fettered in infancy, cannot conceive or conjure a world in which all would be free".
(The latter was a particularly off-putting offering, to my mind, tainted by the legend that the ravenous Van Gogh's culinary experiments in those days may have involved such appetizing ingredients as absinthe and lead paint).
Because that involves the federal government, it is tainted in the minds of Mr. Romney and his party.
On top of this, blockchain has been tainted in the minds of many, thanks to the large amount of hot air, and outright scams, that have been generated by the cryptocurrency industry.
Furthermore, that it might not even care if the Young Republican National Federation becomes tainted, in the minds of the public, as being led by middle-aged chairwoman who laughs at "coon" jokes on Facebook.
But administering any supplement via injection is grounds for a two-year suspension in the AFL, and whatever happens, careers and reputations are about to be ruined, maybe on a level comparable to the steroid scandal in baseball, which led to a whole generation of players becoming "tainted" in the minds of many fans and writers.
All the words in question predate the Nazis but became tainted in the public mind after their deployment in Nazi propaganda.
The falling standards of the press are not only seen in evidence to the Leveson enquiry but in its failure to treat politics seriously and, in particular, in its delight in its collective ability to taint the public mind against one or other politician.
But Hamlet finds that his mind is already tainted, not with incestuous desires but, rather, with the desperate neediness and angry narcissism that are nonnegotiable parts of real love.
Opinion polls suggest that only about a fifth of Serbia's voters, many of them old-age pensioners, want to keep Mr Milosevic in charge.For the first time, his government is facing an opposition movement that is not tainted, in the public's mind, with the perceived failings of the regime's other opponents: power-seeking vanity and a compulsive tendency to quarrel.
