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According to James, these effects include “companies substituting capital for labor to an
unnatural
degree”; economic hardship for “the elderly and others who depend on income-producing investments”; higher retirement-savings requirements; “systemic risks” in the financial system as investors buy “esoteric assets” to “grasp for higher returns”; and lower bank profitability from lending.
The idea that you could treat political enemies jovially, and perhaps have a drink with them after hours – or enter into a coalition government with them – can seem not only unnatural, but even a bit indecent, in such circumstances.
Biotech's Brave Old WorldSkeptics about agricultural biotechnology lambaste it as unproven, untested, unnatural, and uncontrollable.
For nearly half a century, we lived with an
unnatural
division of Europe.
And even many non-chauvinist commentators assume that there is something
unnatural
or unsustainable about population decline, that aging societies must inevitably be less dynamic, and that large-scale immigration is the essential response to demographic decline.
Thinking in these terms can sometimes feel unnatural, because humanity is not a coherent agent.
Dolly advanced and was about to say something, but could not speak and began crying and laughing in an
unnatural
manner.
He laughed with joy, for the inanimate,
unnatural
figure had become alive, and was just the thing.
While he was writing his thoughts, she was thinking about his
unnatural
attention to young Prince Charsky, who had been very tactlessly paying court to her on the day before their departure from Moscow.
'Yes, I am going,' he answered in an
unnatural
voice that was disagreeable to himself.
And really when she asked Dolly what was the matter with Masha, and Vasenka – waiting for this uninteresting conversation to finish – gazed indifferently at Dolly, her question seemed to Levin a piece of
unnatural
and disgusting cunning.
She did not remember her reply to it, but remembered that in answer he had said with obvious intent to hurt her too:'I can take no interest in your partiality for that little girl, because I can see that it is unnatural.'
The cruelty with which he annihilated the world which she had so painfully constructed for herself to be able to endure her hard life, the injustice of his accusation that she was dissembling and unnatural, roused her indignation.
'I know what he wanted to say: he wanted to say that it is
unnatural
not to love one's own daughter and yet to love another's child.
You said yesterday that I don't love my daughter but pretend to love that English girl, and that it is
unnatural!
'And don't all the philosophic theories do the same, when by ways of thought strange and
unnatural
to man they lead him to a knowledge of what he knew long ago, and knows so surely that without it he could not live?
Only the most degraded of
unnatural
children could do it.
Only Mouquette was showing her teeth with laughter, amused at the way in which Mother Brulé was abusing her daughter, an
unnatural
creature who had sent her away that she might gorge herself with rabbit, a creature who had sold herself and who fattened on her man's baseness.
"For," said the chemist, "it is
unnatural
that a man should do without women!
Then M. de Nerval rose and, adopting the tone of an Apostle:'I shall not for one moment pretend,' he said, in an
unnatural
voice, 'that I am not attached to office.
He was full of weird and
unnatural
notions about being a credit to his parents and an honour to the school; and he yearned to win prizes, and grow up and be a clever man, and had all those sorts of weak-minded ideas.
This was no surprise to him, it seemed rather that being able to actually move around on those spindly little legs until then was
unnatural.
Mr. Wharton now felt unwilling to lose the advantage he had gained, and, making an effort of more than usual vigor, he continued,-"I wish from the bottom of my heart, this
unnatural
struggle was over, that we might again meet our friends and relatives in peace and love."
I do not pretend to understand, myself, all the merits of this war, Katy; but to me it seems unnatural, that a country like this should be ruled by another so distant as England."
This provoked him to the last degree, and he called me not only an unkind wife, but an
unnatural
mother, and asked me how I could entertain such a thought without horror, as that of leaving my two children (for one was dead) without a mother, and to be brought up by strangers, and never to see them more.
It was true, had things been right, I should not have done it, but now it was my real desire never to see them, or him either, any more; and as to the charge of unnatural, I could easily answer it to myself, while I knew that the whole relation was
unnatural
in the highest degree in the world.
However, let me be what I would, I was not come up to that pitch of hardness common to the profession; I mean, to be unnatural, and regardless of the safety of my child; and I preserved this honest affection so long, that I was upon the point of giving up my friend at the bank, who lay so hard at me to come to him and marry him, that, in short, there was hardly any room to deny him.
Madame Raquin, after reading the letter of this
unnatural
father, in a transport of kind-heartedness, acted very foolishly.
So saying, he advanced and posted himself in the middle of the road along which the friars were coming, and as soon as he thought they had come near enough to hear what he said, he cried aloud,"Devilish and
unnatural
beings, release instantly the highborn princesses whom you are carrying off by force in this coach, else prepare to meet a speedy death as the just punishment of your evil deeds."
The friars drew rein and stood wondering at the appearance of Don Quixote as well as at his words, to which they replied,"Senor Caballero, we are not devilish or unnatural, but two brothers of St. Benedict following our road, nor do we know whether or not there are any captive princesses coming in this coach."
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