For most of the production, the ingrates seem to possess an idealised beauty only visible through the words of others.
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The ingrates remain silent in the face of everyone else's descriptions of them.
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The ingrates, formerly beautiful women, must now live as pathetic and horrifyingly ugly souls because they scorned their suitors.
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The ingrates have until this moment been confined to dancing generalised passions.
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The live presence of the ingrates and, in particular, the lamenting soul, renders the love object palpably present.
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Punished for their lack of passion, the ingrates dance but do not sing until the ballo's last moment.
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Ariadne is punished for loving too much and the ingrates are punished for not loving enough.
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Our clumsy novices play their part in creating isolationists by talk which allows them to misrepresent us by calling us broken reeds and ingrates.
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He has never withdrawn his charges that those same people are ingrates who are holding patients to ransom and who do not care about their patients in any circumstances.
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Moreover, she was a spiteful and impudentingratewho didn't seem to appreciate anything her daughter and son-in-law did for her.
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We showed him the way, then he is either thankful oringrate.
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She was a wonderful speaker and a good administrator, but she must have been a borningrate.
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For this reason, he despises all humans, seeing them as ingrates who have forgotten the suffering of his son.
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Seneca then considers the causes of lack of gratitude by those he perceives to be "thoughtless and reckless" (referred to as the "ingrate").
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Reciprocity works because from a young age people are taught to return favors and to disregard this teaching will lead to the social stigma of being aningrate.
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