Luckily perhaps, culture is thought of slightly differently.
When I consider what most attracted me to the pastor and the dancer, I think of what slightly marred their beauty: the pastor's cigarettes and indecision, the dark circles under the dancer's eyes that suggested he, too, was vulnerable to exhaustion.
Kant then specifies several central features of repulsive forces in Propositions 2 and 3. Repulsive forces admit of degrees to infinity, since one must always be able to think of a slightly greater or lesser force, and although matter can be compressed to infinity, it can never be penetrated, since that would require an infinite compressing force, which is impossible.
Anything you can think of editing slightly, try it out!
Similarly, his insistence on the presence of Africa in the Bible makes Scripture seem slightly less exotic while getting worshippers to think of themselves as slightly more exotic.
To see this, think of a situation slightly different from the (imagined) actual situation in which, just before seeing Jones kicking the ball between the white posts, s had noticed that the referee's assistant raised her flag to signal Jones's off-side.
The title of Naomi Wolf's new book, which explores why the vagina is still thought of as "slightly shameful" even today, has been censored by Apple.
The author, writes Apple, "looks back in history and show[s] us how the v****a was considered sacred for centuries until it began to be cast as a threat", and asks why "even now in an increasingly sexualised world, it is thought of as slightly shameful".
And when I think of that innocence, that slightly sheltered quality, I think of Dorking".
