The good doctor expressed his dismay, but also bafflement that "a high proportion of the population are prepared to cry aloud about footling matters of uncleanliness such as a tomato sauce stain on a restaurant tablecloth, whilst they luxuriate on a plush seat in their faeces-stained pants".
A major exhibition at the London-based Wellcome Collection examines the uncleanliness of human life.
Associated with this worldview is the notion that the mixing of realms is the result of evil influence and leads to monsters, hybrids, and uncleanliness.
Each was accused of uncleanliness in terms of the other's religious code.
Luckily, the urge to amass a womblike hodgepodge of collected ephemera, toys, etc., has been counterbalanced by a compulsion for tidying and straightening, which has kept me from entirely succumbing to the tailspin of uncleanliness and disorder".
It "made me feel as if I was hurled by God from an imaginary paradise where I had no right to be in my uncleanliness".
No longer would I have to run a full mental audit of everyone I've recently met whenever I can feel the early onset of a sore throat, surreptitiously Rolodexing them all for traces of uncleanliness so that I can have someone to properly focus all my anger on.
In 1848, a Hackney doctor noted that the artisan's "love of the beautiful" had produced neat gardens of dahlias and tulips, which contrasted oddly with his "damp and dirty home" and his reputation for personal uncleanliness.
It is not a direct rebellion against the social shame surrounding menstruation, although it is unusual to hear periods affiliated with pleasure, power and sensuality – "I have big dreams / And blood powers", she sings in Untamed Region – rather than pain and uncleanliness.
The same ugly bodies and physical uncleanliness, the same toothless old age and disgusting death, as with market women".
She occasionally permitted herself a few words to her mother or to American friends about the uncleanliness and dismalness of English kitchens and bathrooms, but she seemed determined to accept the discomforts of her adopted country with good grace.
