Rats, teeming, promiscuous and unseen, were also responsible for transmitting pestilence, and thereby associated in popular and middle-class mythology with other forms of contagion: the Vichy milicien oath which contained a commitment to fight against 'la lepre juive' is evidence enough, as is the more general association between Judaism and 'la pourriture', an established synomym for venereal
deliquescence (Lasowski, 1982: 10-11).
One notable assumption of many febrile invocations of the global is that we are currently seeing a
deliquescence of the nation-state.
There's bound to be some loose talk about global warming and the
deliquescence of the ice-caps but everybody knows in their hearts that this calamity is most likely to happen long after they themselves have expired.
I knew the euphoria of metal, the atavism of the cell, white nights of burning ice, the derangement of flesh, the
deliquescence of dreams, the clarity of death.
Similarly, she argues, Jews and gays have been associated, to their great detriment and pain, with
deliquescence and slime.
They function as euphemisms, protecting their users from the intense charge of "lesbian" with all its
deliquescence of meaning, including hatred, rejection, and the ultimate taboo, female autonomy.
The requirement of general monotonicity across time sieves out short-term and nonpersistent variations that occur such as due to different governing ideologies or presidential personalities; instead, it helps us to identify long-term and persistent shifts across time that cannot be anticipated (even) with the acknowledgement of the
deliquescence of politics.
Kissinger now argues, in the third volume of his memoirs, Years of Renewal, that he was prevented and distracted, by Watergate and the
deliquescence of the Nixon presidency, from taking a timely or informed interest in the crucial triangle of Greece, Turkey, and Cyprus.
Dans cette promotion de voyages aseptises, les tours-operateurs jouent un role non negligeable, transformant le monde en marchandise et concourant fortement a la
deliquescence des societes receptrices.
Atwood is too good a writer to score off Simon's sexual deterioration and the intensifying
deliquescence of his will; she merely exposes the mind of a model young man full of secrets more harrowing than legendary murders.
But though we've become proficient in seeing through a Legrandin, the very facility with which we do so may keep us from seeing what we don't already know: that Legrandin's "hypocrisy"--his pretending to hate what he really loves--is perhaps a little more complicated than we think; that his "hatred" is as sincere as his "love," insofar as loving "society" (le monde) while knowing it to be a bad object--the object you're not supposed to love--means cultivating an acute sensitivity to its badness, positively refining a taste for its gamy
deliquescence (high society being "high" in more ways than one), a
deliquescence like that, for example, of meat going bad.
Psychologiquement le besoin de volupte s'interprete a travers tout le roman comme une lachete spirituelle, un laisser-aller a la langueur, une
deliquescence.
