ignobility

psychopathologists run the risk of ignobility in undertaking their

They recoiled at the gushing tributes toward war indulged in by men such as Roosevelt, who, wrote James, treated "peace as a condition of blubberlike and swollen ignobility, fit only for huckstering weaklings, dwelling in the gray twilight and heedless of the higher life." (15) They saw grave danger to constitutional principles and the national character in the adoption by America of an imperialist ethos.

At the same time, Congress acted with similar ignobility when an unannounced resolution was brought to the House floor after the business of the week had been finished, and in less than 30 seconds the resolution was passed by unanimous consent without debate and without most representatives even having heard of it.

Listen to the paragon of ignobility, the Greek soldier Thersites, badger Agamemnon, "in his catchy whine," to bring the troops home now:

To what extent were you seeking to illuminate issues of ignobility that existed in the GDR?

Of this latter he says: "In her new book she has left legends and heroic youth far behind, and has explored in a land almost fabulous in its sorrow and senility." And: "out of the material and spiritual battle which has gone so hardly with her Ireland has emerged with many memories of beliefs, and with one belief-- a belief in the incurable ignobility of the forces which have overcome her."

They came to "unplug" from the ignobility of consumer society, to find an existence that was at once less fragmented and more self-sufficient.

"Bedouins are close in nature to camels; if you treat a camel well, it will give you everything it has got - But if you treat it with ignobility it will hold a grudge," explained Abu Fagr, maintaining that the government has not yet been able to speak the language of the Bedouins.

the United States from attaching any badge of ignobility to a

When she draws a knife and the messenger runs, Cleopatra herself moralizes this dramatization of a bad-news messenger's unhappy lot in 'Some Innocents scape not the thunderbolt' (TLN 1123), while acknowledging the ignobility of her own behaviour ('These hands do lacke Nobility', TLN 1129).