Conservatives ' ' were increasingly cognizant, ' ' he says, ' ' of the need to avoid either quixotic antistatism ormoroseauthoritarianism if their movement was to capture national power and respect.
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This insult makes memorose, discontented, bitter and a malcontent through no fault of one's own.
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They arrived sullen, suspicious andmorose, and at the end of the three weeks they were vivacious, full of life—in fact just normal children again.
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There are men who are violent, insubordinate, sullen,moroseand utterly brutal creatures.
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I have seen myself how depressed andmorosefor substantial periods after refusal of parole a prisoner and his family can be.
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Then there is the boy who perhaps has a bad family background and who is a bitmorose.
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That seems to me a sour andmoroseform of comfort.
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Under its influence the weak man becomes foolish, themoroseman weeps, and the excitable man becomes exalted.
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Surely we cannot get over the difficulty by saying that prisoners who are really like wild beasts—morose, and subject to gusts of passion—are abnormal and ought to be certified insane.
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My friend, a man of cheerful, sunny character with an enormous capacity for enjoying life, gradually became bitter,morose, savage and often cruel to those around him.
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The alternative is something that is terrible to see—the patients sitting down, doing nothing, miserable andmorose, and in fact waiting for death, whether consciously or otherwise.
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If you want men to continue to nurse a grievance and becomemorose, then you are doing it when you refuse a willing worker any source of income except.
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Normally happy men becomemorose, distrustful, embittered.
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Her boyfriend died of aids, having despaired and becomemorosebecause of the disease.
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This foreknowledge of his own (suspected) demise led to a somewhat subdued, evenmorose, demeanor.
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