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In January 1931, he warned: "Comrade Stalin, without exaggeration, conditions are catastrophic!" [18] On 4 April 1933, he sent a long letter in which, among many other details, he named two OGPU officers whom he accused of torturing prisoners from his district. Stalin reacted by sending a senior official, Matvei Shkiryatov, to investigate.
Incorruptibility is a Catholic and Orthodox belief that divine intervention allows some human bodies (specifically saints and beati) to completely or partially avoid the normal process of decomposition after death as a sign of their holiness.
He was sustained, without knowing it, by the French refusal to accept poverty as a sign of failure in an artist. Léautaud, at rock bottom, still had his credentials. His monumental diary "Journal Littéraire", which he kept for over 50 years, can without exaggeration be described as the greatest study of character ever written. [1]
It "created at a stroke what without exaggeration might be called the seminal concern of contemporary anthropology, the study of kinship..." [ 2 ] [ 3 ] In the book Morgan argues that all human societies share a basic set of principles for social organization along kinship lines, based on the principles of consanguinity (kinship by blood) and ...
The medical examiner who ruled the 2011 death of a Philadelphia teacher found with 20 stab wounds a homicide — then later a suicide ... the ME switched his ruling to suicide without an ...
Accounts of Irish atrocities during the Rebellion of 1641 are now dismissed as propaganda, but led to real massacres. [11]In a sermon at Clermont during the Crusades, Urban II justified the war against Islam by claiming that the enemy "had ravaged the churches of God in the Eastern provinces, circumcised Christian men, violated women, and carried out the most unspeakable torture before killing ...
Because in Western culture death is sometimes seen as the ultimate loss of control, fear of it may produce death anxiety in the form of a sense of extreme shame or narcissistic mortification. [15] The shame in this context is produced by the loss of stoicism, productivity, and control, aspects that are highly valued by society and aspects that ...
Exaggeration is the representation of something as more extreme or dramatic than it is, intentionally or unintentionally. It can be a rhetorical device or figure of speech , used to evoke strong feelings or to create a strong impression.