Most of humanity still finds aberrance threatening.?. From Wordnik.com. [Catspaw]
And on the fringe of their behavior, there must be some level of aberrance. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 22, 2002] Reference
I accepted that obsession was not an aberrance but the foundation of my character. From Wordnik.com. [Asimov's Science Fiction]
Bye the by, the Dilbert Principle may apply here, but W is an aberrance on even this. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » Warner: Since I Said ‘Things Are Going Sideways’ In Iraq, There’s Been An ‘Exponential Increase’ In Violence] Reference
Early conditioning in this household setting will produce later aberrance, guaranteed. From Wordnik.com. ["Sperm cells created from female embryo."] Reference
Man, neither failure nor aberrance can be called upon to limit the success of an aesthetic education. From Wordnik.com. [Aesthetic Violence and the Legitimacy of Reading Romanticism] Reference
Despite the growing aberrance of his thrusts, he still kept driving himself into her with wild abandon. From Wordnik.com. [EROTICA: A Visitor in the Night by Baron Darkside (Part II)] Reference
Since failure and aberrance cannot sustain such a position, the problem we are left with imposes itself precipitously. From Wordnik.com. [Aesthetic Violence and the Legitimacy of Reading Romanticism] Reference
Ask Huck at what end of the spectrum of aberrance lies the act of knifing and stoning a stray dog to death as it swings by it's legs hung from a tree. From Wordnik.com. [Huckabee Adviser Clarifies Remark About Homosexuality And Necrophilia: They're Both "Aberrant Behavior," But They're At "Opposite Ends Of The Spectrum"] Reference
Sandbox games (which is a fancy way of saying a game where you can ignore the game's objectives) shot through with criminal aberrance have always been a weakness of mine. From Wordnik.com. ['Grand,' but No 'Godfather'] Reference
For all its over-the-top aberrance and brash transgressiveness, GTA IV doesn't really wrestle with the radiant feverish nightmare labyrinth that post-9/11 America has become. From Wordnik.com. ['Grand,' but No 'Godfather'] Reference
That it is high time that mankind was undertaking this knowledge of himself is particularly emphasized by the unrest and aberrance of human behavior now startling and disturbing the whole world. From Wordnik.com. [A Psychiatric Milestone Bloomingdale Hospital Centenary, 1821-1921] Reference
This would indicate that the aberrance is in the roots; the two varieties are much more leafy in proportion to their size than the species, so that if the leaves controlled the roots, the latter should have been larger in proportion than those of the species. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American, Volume XLIII., No. 25, December 18, 1880 A Weekly Journal of Practical Information, Art, Science, Mechanics, Chemistry, and Manufactures.] Reference
Dorothy used the word "irregular" in the titles of three of her poems, but "Irregular Verses" bears the most glaring metrical aberrance of the three: the moment in line 43, the only line of heptameter in the poem: "Though in our riper years we each pursued a different way.". From Wordnik.com. ['Put to the Blush': Romantic Irregularities and Sapphic Tropes] Reference
Catching me looking at him, he gave me a wink and straightened up for a moment; then something went click in his eyes, and they cooled down again as he slumped back into bubba pose, like the whole standing up straight thing had been a momentary aberrance caused by a crick in his back. From Wordnik.com. [Fault Line]
This makes some sense: aberrance subverts the grammar of culture. From Wordnik.com. [The TrueTalk Blog] Reference
It's not the aberrance the previous album is, but nor is it a tenth as good as even. From Wordnik.com. [Drowned In Sound // Feed] Reference
The type of harsh unconcern for the circumstances of local people isn't an aberrance from the tourism norm, but rather the norm itself. From Wordnik.com. [Matador Network] Reference
It is a show about beauty; it is a show that equates natural and artificial beauty very well; that sees aberrance only in the commonplace (the stylish gossip-maven on the show is revealed, shockingly, in one episode to be a suburban Dad, and is instantly blackmailed). From Wordnik.com. [The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed] Reference
"Epidemics, pandemics and other public health emergencies require a solid public health laboratory diagnostic and epidemiological surveillance system to detect aberrance in disease trends, allowing rapid response and targeted preventive actions to be instituted in a timely fashion.". From Wordnik.com. [Health News from Medical News Today] Reference
Actually, wouldn’t the end of the spectrum be some sort of triumvirate of aberrance?. From Wordnik.com. [Huckabee: Touring the Spectrum of Wingnut Insanity « Lean Left] Reference
\tab Then he had had a period of temporary mental aberrance during which he had sought a political solution to what he saw as a great danger: reproduction by defectives. From Wordnik.com. [Time Enough For Love]
Greed is generally seen as the psychological aberrance behind what’s happened to our economy -- and we’ve said as much previously, citing a failure to embrace healthy psychology and a tenable world view as primary causalities. From Wordnik.com. [On the Catastrophic Consequences of Embracing Ignorance, Insulation and Falsehoods] Reference
We will not tolerate aberrance by individuals that affects families, businesses and homeowners, "Public Safety Director Frank Straub said. From Wordnik.com. [IndyStar.com Top Stories] Reference
(n): aberrance, wandering from the correct path, going astray, deviation from what is normal. ". From Wordnik.com. [sQuare Productions] Reference
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