The Methodists love your big sinners as proper subjects to work upon -- and indeed they have a plentiful harvest -- I think what you call flagrancy was never more in fashion. From Wordnik.com. [The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 2] Reference
The Methodists love your big sinners, as proper subjects to work upon ” and indeed they have a plentiful harvest ” I think what you call flagrancy was never more in fashion. From Wordnik.com. [Letters of Horace Walpole 01]
He was evidently impressed by the flagrancy of Iraq's defiance of Resolution 1441. From Wordnik.com. [Aural History] Reference
No, the truly maddening thing about them is the flagrancy with which they break their own rules. From Wordnik.com. [A one party state] Reference
The responses to my remarks were a repeated exercise, of bizarre flagrancy, in missing the point. From Wordnik.com. [The Right Wing: Supporting the Troops, As Usual « Lean Left] Reference
When people who had nothing to do with the case were so sensible of its flagrancy, people who lost money by it could scarcely be expected to deal mildly with it. From Wordnik.com. [Little Dorrit] Reference
The flagrancy and ignorance of the organizers of this party is astounding, yet sadly unsurprising. From Wordnik.com. [Yale Daily News - Latest Issue] Reference
And, unless she were discovered to be living in absolute flagrancy, they would throw down the carpet. From Wordnik.com. [Black Oxen] Reference
The matter never took on flagrancy enough to give ever so kind an intervener a chance to speak with effect. From Wordnik.com. [Strong Hearts] Reference
When his passion should subside, would he not perceive the flagrancy of his injustice, and hasten to atone for it?. From Wordnik.com. [Wieland: or, the Transformation, an American Tale] Reference
But it seems to me a strange and dangerous thing to infer a man's innocence merely from the flagrancy of his guilt. From Wordnik.com. [Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 4] Reference
We might allude to the evil of miscegenation, an evil which began in slavery, and which is still going on with shameful flagrancy. From Wordnik.com. [The Negro and the White Man] Reference
It seems to be a questionable logic which assumes the merit of a reformer to be in proportion to the flagrancy of the evil assailed. From Wordnik.com. [The English Utilitarians, Volume I.] Reference
She has hinted rather than fully expressed it, as though fearing a certain flagrancy in too public an exhibition of her enchantments. From Wordnik.com. [Vanishing Roads and Other Essays] Reference
Depending on the flagrancy of the infringement, the court may also order additional damages to be paid by the infringing party to the copyright owner. From Wordnik.com. [www.hardwarezone.com.sg] Reference
After Lisa gets "blackout drunk" (not her words) and started flinging avocado around, some of her fellow drinkers take exception to her fruit flagrancy. From Wordnik.com. [Vh1 BlogVh1 Blog] Reference
It is the counterproductive push for a military strike in Iran that represents an illusion of progress toward resolving Iran's flagrancy in its nuclear program. From Wordnik.com. [SFGate: Top News Stories]
Mrs. Brewster, head and shoulders in a trunk, was trying not to listen and not to seem not to listen to Miz 'Merz's recital of her husband's relations' latest flagrancy. From Wordnik.com. [Half Portions] Reference
On Mr. Larkin remonstrating with him on the flagrancy of his conduct, he merely replied, "Oh, I warrant me her cables and anchors are strong enough to last till we get back.". From Wordnik.com. [California Four Months among the Gold-Finders, being the Diary of an Expedition from San Francisco to the Gold Districts] Reference
"Damages, if otherwise appropriate, should not be increased by an award of additional damages, whether by reference to flagrancy or 'moral prejudice' or any other such considerations.". From Wordnik.com. [The Register] Reference
Prudence opposed the attempt, and on reflection he decided to appeal to Mr. Gaines, hoping that the flagrancy of the case would rouse the President from his usual attitude of indifference. From Wordnik.com. [The Fruit of the Tree] Reference
Yet notwithstanding the flagrancy of these, Leonora persuades me to think well of Olivia; indeed I am so happy here, that it would be a difficult matter at present to make me think ill of any body. From Wordnik.com. [Tales and Novels — Volume 08] Reference
Hence, we deem that swift and summary justice should be meted by law to all who practice these horrors, unless the flagrancy of the offence justify lawlessness by the higher law of necessary punishment. From Wordnik.com. [The new man : twenty-nine years a slave, twenty-nine years a free man,] Reference
And it is a point of vast interest whether the soul may contract such stains in all their depth and flagrancy from deeds which may have been plotted and resolved upon, but which physically have never had existence. From Wordnik.com. [Twice Told Tales] Reference
There hasn't been anything approaching the flagrancy of Roman divorce in modern history. ". From Wordnik.com. [By Advice of Counsel] Reference
Yes, the flagrancy diminishes the laws. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » Right Wing Urges Bush to Pardon Scooter Libby] Reference
The flagrancy of the case gave her an advantage. From Wordnik.com. [The Street Called Straight] Reference
15. flagrancy. From Wordnik.com. [A Spelling-Book for Advanced Classes] Reference
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