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  • Orthodes cynica, the cynical Quaker, is a species of cutworm or dart moth in the family Noctuidae. It is found in North America. The MONA or Hodges number...
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  • The Fair Quaker of Deal or, The Humours of the Navy is a 1710 comedy play by the British writer Charles Shadwell. A popular hit running for thirteen nights...
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  • brumata Winter moth Operophtera Geometridae 1758 — Orthodes cynica Cynical Quaker Orthodes Noctuidae 1852 — Orthodes detracta Disparaged arches Orthodes...
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  • virgula 10585 – Orthodes majuscula, rustic Quaker moth 10586 – Orthodes furtiva 10587 – Orthodes cynica, cynical Quaker moth 10588 – Orthodes adiastola 10589...
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    The New Guy, starred as a guitar player in a band. Deschanel portrayed a cynical, plain-spoken young woman working in a big-box store in the black dramedy...
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    an 18-minute single-track extended play, which served as a fiery and cynical social commentary, in 1999. The Decline, clocking in at 18:23, is the second-longest...
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  • which he calls A. E. Housman a writer in "a blasphemous, antinomian, 'cynical' strain", meaning defiant of arbitrary societal rules. The psychologist...
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    Girls, among other series. His father, born in North Carolina, came from a Quaker background, and his mother is Jewish but not religious. He was raised by...
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  • wide range of characters, from Sam Weller again (1946), to the humorously cynical schoolmaster Rupert Billings in The Happiest Days of Your Life (1949) and...
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    slaveholders and clergymen who defended slavery as the most brutal, sinful, and cynical of all who represented "wolves in sheep's clothing". In What to the Slave...
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    against virtually any overtures from the government to the rebels. This cynical strategy, some argue, was deeply rooted and employed in Luwero triangle...
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    in George Stevens' The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965), and portrayed a cynical, alcoholic movie star in The Carpetbaggers (1964), which brought her a...
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    Voltaire (redirect from Un Quaker)
    of a controversial work on The Three Impostors. But far from being the cynical remark it is often taken for, it was meant as a retort to atheistic opponents...
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  • groups, individuals or society as a whole. Christianity can also be cynically used as a rhetorical device to achieve political or military goals by...
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    politicians as egoists rather than idealists. This fosters mistrust and a cynical attitude to politics, less civic engagement, and less interest in voting...
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  • have indicated, remarkably original. The New York Post noted, In this cynical age, it requires courage as well as enterprise to do a musical play that...
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    Academy in 1940. From 1942 to 1947, he attended George School, a private Quaker preparatory school in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, where he wrote his first...
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    profiteering on their return to civilian life. Veterans were still extremely cynical about the motivations for entering World War I, but many were willing to...
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  • their love for money, the canard that Jews 'control' Wall Street, and a cynical perversion of the Western Wall, the holiest site in Judaism," and "Once...
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    with a conscience", for example, George Cadbury's Bournville, if viewed cynically, the company town was often an economically viable ploy to attract and...
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