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  • The early Outback skirmishes such as Bent's World and GHC 2990 were considered aberrations, of little interest to the Hegemony.†   (source)
  • We had hoped the chipper-shredder incident in the garage was an isolated aberration, but it turned out to be just the beginning of what would become a lifelong pattern of phobic, irrational behavior.†   (source)
  • The destruction of Joe Theismann may have been classified an accident, but it wasn't an aberration.†   (source)
  • Your criminal willingness to overlook this—this obvious aberration from Party policy—does not make your judgment appear very sound.†   (source)
  • The thing was an aberration—its existence went against nature.†   (source)
  • Clara was seated beside her mother, who squeezed her hand impatiently whenever the priest lingered too long on the sins of the flesh, for she knew that this would only lead the child to visualize with even greater accuracy aberrations that transcended reality.†   (source)
  • Aberrations live among us; they're not dangerous like Anomalies, who have to be separated from Society.†   (source)
  • He felt himself to be an aberration, born with a love for learning in a family absorbed in simply scrambling to get by, day to day.†   (source)
  • Stark upheavals bring out every sort of quaint aberration by the very suddenness of their coming.†   (source)
  • Dexter was the different one, the aberration.†   (source)
  • Most of the crew liked the boy and had decided to treat his frequent weepings as simply a mild aberration, related in some way to his nationality.†   (source)
  • A botanical aberration.†   (source)
  • The others can believe what they like, but I don't believe for a second that this is the real August and the other an aberration.†   (source)
  • The spy Benjamin Church had turned out to be an aberration.†   (source)
  • The collective records of the various sumo stables are similarly aberrational.†   (source)
  • It was possible that there were other vus of which he had never heard and that one of these other vus would explain succinctly the bafing phenomenon of which he had been both a witness and a part; it was even possible that none of what he thought had taken place, really had taken place, that he was dealing with an aberration of memory rather than of perception, that he never really had thought he had seen, that his impression now that he once had thought so was merely the illusion of an illusion, and that he was only now imagining that he had ever once imagined seeing a naked man sitting in a tree at the cemetery.†   (source)
  • I wondered if he was another of the many genetic aberrations I had seen in Moody's intermarried family.†   (source)
  • And murder and injury by that particular type of weapon is now an aberration rather than the norm.†   (source)
  • Or call it his aberration—that 1/400th of a second that welded him to a national fantasy.†   (source)
  • He'd heard Eugenides tell his stories, but hadn't realized the Thief's interpretations were more than a personal aberration.†   (source)
  • But despite these aberrations he seemed to be accepted as an islander, simply because he had called Auntie Braxton "Trudy," a name nobody had used for her since she was a young woman.†   (source)
  • Were he not to have it, I'm afraid that I, as a certified-if for the present, anonymous-member of the International Banking Commission, would feel compelled to report certain aberrations of banking and legal procedures as I have witnessed them.†   (source)
  • During the morning cabinet meeting, Vice President Johnson said it was an aberration, the grousing of dirt Irish immigrants looking for free food, perhaps trying to scare a few honest men out of their jobs.†   (source)
  • If the Andromeda Strain produced hemorrhage inside the brain for any reason, then it might produce rapid, unusual mental aberrations.†   (source)
  • Without my ability to sense others' pain, I would be only an oddity—a misbegotten aberration, good for nothing but satisfying the low-minded curiosity of those who consented to have me around, of those who tolerated me.†   (source)
  • Especially when you're me, Theodore Freak, Resident Aberration.†   (source)
  • In fact, throughout that first year, he gave intimations that he loved both its regularities and its aberrations.†   (source)
  • Death will find me long before I tire of contemplating an evening spent in his company during which he enthralled a mixed audience consisting of a fur trader, a Cree Indian matron, and an Anglican missionary, with an hour-long monologue on sexual aberrations in female pygmy shrews.†   (source)
  • But I am a person who is too often weakly misguided by the external masquerade, quick to trust in such notions as that the ghastly blow-up I had witnessed was a lamentable but rare aberration in a lovers' connection whose prevailing tone was really hearts and flowers.†   (source)
  • And that evening when she gave a party and wore her Margit Brandt blouse began to appear like an aberration.†   (source)
  • The effect of these two inventions upon human society could only be described as devastating, and they had swept away the last remnants of the Puritan aberration.†   (source)
  • It was an aberration.†   (source)
  • At that moment she cannot have been in her right mind; yet, what was the cause of her temporary aberration I cannot say.   (source)
  • Why do so many Aberrations work in food cleanup?†   (source)
  • I didn't think that Aberrations could have access to artifacts, but Ky obviously does.†   (source)
  • There's a higher concentration of Aberrations there than in the general populace.†   (source)
  • And Aberrations aren't allowed to carry tablets of their own.†   (source)
  • Most Aberrations don't even have that," she says.†   (source)
  • I should have known they'd take Aberrations first.†   (source)
  • Are there other unknown Aberrations standing here in this room, swimming in this water?†   (source)
  • In their world, aberrations were as much a part of nature as grace.†   (source)
  • The giant does not parade its aberrations, its conceals them.†   (source)
  • But when Manchester became crowded with factories in the early 1800s, the soot from the smokestacks began to settle on every conceivable surface, including the bark of the trees; and the lightly speckled wings that had served to protect the majority of peppered moths suddenly exposed them remorselessly to their predators—even as the darker wings of the aberrations rendered them invisible.†   (source)
  • Though Aberrations usually acquire their status due to an Infraction, they are protected; their identities aren't usually common knowledge.†   (source)
  • I imagine other scenes went more smoothly than this; likely none of the other Aberrations had parents or family high up enough to know what was really happening.†   (source)
  • Venkatesh, who is a thoughtful, handsome, and well-built but not aberrationally brave person, had made his way up to the sixth floor, trying to find someone willing to take his survey.†   (source)
  • "We take care of the aberration here, and then follow it south," he urged Aro.†   (source)
  • What Infraction did your father commit that made you an Aberration?†   (source)
  • But the stakes are higher for you because of Ky's Aberration status.†   (source)
  • Ky may be an Aberration but there's nothing about him that is defective.†   (source)
  • Have they been assigned Aberration status or a quiet Retirement somewhere far from here?†   (source)
  • Many of them are Aberration status, you know.†   (source)
  • They asked if I ever wondered what my life would be like if I weren't an Aberration.†   (source)
  • If things continue, you could be declared an Aberration yourself.†   (source)
  • Would she still be so interested in Ky if she knew about his status as an Aberration?†   (source)
  • I try to pull my thoughts from the boy who is an Aberration.†   (source)
  • There was a picture of an Aberration as your Match?†   (source)
  • He is an Aberration from the Outer Provinces and yet he has managed to blend in here.†   (source)
  • But this is how the behavioral aberration, once begun, grows to lavish panic.†   (source)
  • Had I always been an aberration, or was this something Melanie was making me into?†   (source)
  • What happened to your sister was doubtless an aberration.†   (source)
  • Happiness is an accident of nature, a beautiful and flawless aberration, like an albino.†   (source)
  • Did they regard it as a childish aberration of the human race?†   (source)
  • I don't doubt that it took place, but it was a freak, an aberration.†   (source)
  • He's humanoid, he's hominid, he's an aberration, he's abominable; he'd be legendary, if there were anyone left to relate legends.†   (source)
  • Jaime was horrified by any form of extremism and held that guerrilla warfare is only justified by tyranny, where the only solution is to shoot it out, but that it would be an aberration in a country where change can be obtained by popular vote.†   (source)
  • I have a thought that strikes me cold: Would I be so interested if I didn't know that he's an Aberration?†   (source)
  • He had to retain his classification as an Aberration, and, as such, was ineligible to be entered in the Matching pool.†   (source)
  • Now and then we do that with an Aberration, simply to gather additional data and watch for variation.†   (source)
  • An Aberration from the Outer Provinces.†   (source)
  • She doesn't often have to lie; she's never been an Aberration, so this doesn't come easily to her, she hasn't had as much practice.†   (source)
  • He's always known he was an Aberration.†   (source)
  • Ky is already an Aberration.†   (source)
  • Ky Markham is an Aberration.†   (source)
  • Ky Markham is an Aberration?†   (source)
  • I'm an Aberration.†   (source)
  • He's an Aberration.†   (source)
  • He's an Aberration.†   (source)
  • Was he an inclusion or an aberration?†   (source)
  • Later, when the truth was known, that the 'traitor' had no treason in him but instead a mental aberration called amnesia, Conklin fell apart.†   (source)
  • He was the aberration, the flaw in the lens, an otherwise honorable man with a single weakness that had been uncovered by two disparate parties both with extraordinary resources.†   (source)
  • You could fight a guy here and then forget it, leave it on the court or in the ring, because you'd already mind-whipped yourself repeatedly for what you'd done out there in the streets, whatever misfit thing of rage or bleakness or stupendous aberration, and maybe you'd reached an early maturity on the subject of running a grudge—how important it is to be selective.†   (source)
  • It was annoying because he could not find the source, and, as happened so often, he had to wonder if there actually was a source or whether the intrusion was simply an aberration of his mind.†   (source)
  • A pair of pretty girls, engrossed in the infuriating dead-end of long range telepathic communication, demanded of Dr. Jordan why transmission of visual images always showed color aberration, which it did not.†   (source)
  • It's an aberration of the system.†   (source)
  • And the evidence is hopelessly confused with mysticism-perhaps the prime aberration of the human mind.†   (source)
  • It's this aberration.†   (source)
  • I think that previously I had regarded this thirst of Sophie's as a temporary aberration, a retreat into momentary solace which was due more to Nathan's abandonment of her than anything else.†   (source)
  • Distracted, violent states in human beings having been alien to my experience—bound up as it had been less with the crazy Gothic side of a Southern upbringing than with the genteel and the well-behaved—I regarded Nathan's outburst as a shocking failure of character, a lapse of decency, rather than the product of some aberration of mind.†   (source)
  • He was a very pleasant fellow but with bad political aberrations.†   (source)
  • He knew he'd had a narrow escape and in later years was fond of talking about "that inarticulate sense for actuality which is our ultimate safeguard against the aberrations of mere logic".†   (source)
  • It was the late sixties before analyses indeed showed some chromosome aberrations in Hiroshima and Nagasaki survivors, and it would, of course, take much longer to tell what, if any, effects there would be on their progeny.†   (source)
  • —an aberration and the beginning of all intellectual aberrations.†   (source)
  • It was referred to knowingly in the inner government circles in Batavia, especially as to its irregularities and aberrations, and it was known by name to some few, very few, in the mercantile world.†   (source)
  • The long habit of living together in mutually dependent intimacy had given them the same vocabulary, and the same habit of beginning their phrases "Mother thinks" or "Janey thinks," according as one or the other wished to advance an opinion of her own; but in reality, while Mrs. Archer's serene unimaginativeness rested easily in the accepted and familiar, Janey was subject to starts and aberrations of fancy welling up from springs of suppressed romance.†   (source)
  • They were led back from their aberrations to reason, usefulness, and progress, to the battle against prince and priest—in short, to social happiness.†   (source)
  • 'It does not matter; there's many a heavenly body in the lot crowding upon us of a night that mankind had never heard of, it being outside the sphere of its activities and of no earthly importance to anybody but to the astronomers who are paid to talk learnedly about its composition, weight, path—the irregularities of its conduct, the aberrations of its light—a sort of scientific scandal-mongering.†   (source)
  • Indeed, Hans Castorp did not feel he was required to pay any regard to such aberrations, evidently they lay beyond the limits set by an uneasy conscience demanding that he at least try to be influenced—and its demands were indeed audible, so audible that whenever Herr Settembrini would sit down with them or join them in the open air, he would ask the Italian to expand on his ideas.†   (source)
  • It is true, Mr. Ryde insisted strongly on the doctrines of the Reformation, visited his flock a great deal in their own homes, and was severe in rebuking the aberrations of the flesh—put a stop, indeed, to the Christmas rounds of the church singers, as promoting drunkenness and too light a handling of sacred things.†   (source)
  • On which "I'm obliged to you," Madame Merle replied, "but I'm afraid your aunt imagines, or at least alludes to, no aberrations that the clock-face doesn't register."†   (source)
  • Hence a thousand optical illusions, a thousand aberrations of judgment, a thousand deviations, in which his thought strayed, now mad, now idiotic.†   (source)
  • And since no difference is less easily overcome than the difference of opinion about semi-abstract questions, they never agreed in any opinion, and had long, indeed, been accustomed to jeer without anger, each at the other's incorrigible aberrations.†   (source)
  • It should have been all; that afternoon four years later should have happened the next day, the four years, the interval, mere and-climax: an attenuation and prolongation of a conclusion already ripe to happen, by the War, by a stupid and bloody aberration in the high (and impossible) destiny of the United States, maybe instigated by that family fatality which possessed, along with all circumstance, that curious lack of economy between cause and effect which is always a characteristic of fate when reduced to using human beings for tools, material.†   (source)
  • The shock of his father's accident coming on top of the shell-shock was deemed to have caused temporary mental aberration.†   (source)
  • We would give willingly some more extended account of the world his life touched during the first few years, showing, in all its perspectives and implications, the meaning of life as seen from the floor, or from the crib, but these impressions are suppressed when they might be told, not through any fault of intelligence, but through lack of muscular control, the powers of articulation, and because of the recurring waves of loneliness, weariness, depression, aberration, and utter blankness which war against the order in a man's mind until he is three or four years old.†   (source)
  • I thought it was an aberration of my senses, a mad dream.†   (source)
  • —an aberration and the beginning of all intellectual aberrations.†   (source)
  • It has gradually augmented, until it assumes the appearance of aberration of intellect.†   (source)
  • And what further and deeper aberration might it not yet produce?†   (source)
  • They found out about aberration as soon as the law courts were reformed.†   (source)
  • And there's no doubt that Dmitri Fyodorovitch was suffering from aberration.†   (source)
  • He must have been in a state of aberration.†   (source)
  • And, besides, who isn't suffering from aberration nowadays?†   (source)
  • Well, you see, a man may be sitting perfectly sane and suddenly have an aberration.†   (source)
  • An aberration in which everything is pardonable.†   (source)
  • He may be conscious and know what he is doing and yet be in a state of aberration.†   (source)
  • "What aberration?" asked Alyosha, wondering.†   (source)
  • Why, my Lise is in a state of aberration.†   (source)
  • Unable to realize the gravity of her conduct, she seemed at last content; and he looked at her as she lay upon his shoulder, weeping with happiness, and wondered what obscure strain in the d'Urberville blood had led to this aberration—if it were an aberration.†   (source)
  • THE result of all this, however, was that it was finally decided that perhaps the easiest and safest defense that could be made, assuming that the Griffiths family of Lycurgus would submit to it, would be that of insanity or "brain storm"—a temporary aberration due to love and an illusion of grandeur aroused in Clyde by Sondra Finchley and the threatened disruption by Roberta of all his dreams and plans.†   (source)
  • She realized that, yet was unable to understand how it could be possible, unless shock or death or mental aberration ended the fight.†   (source)
  • Whether Captain Vere, as the Surgeon professionally and privately surmised, was really the sudden victim of any degree of aberration, one must determine for himself by such light as this narrative may afford.†   (source)
  • And although one may tend and nurse illness in the individual case, to honor it intellectually is an aberration—imprint that on your minds!†   (source)
  • But my protest begins at the point where you regard the conjunction of illness and stupidity as a kind of stylistic blunder, as an aberration of taste on the part of nature and a 'dilemma for our human emotions'—as you chose to express it.†   (source)
  • "I never noticed any alienation of mind—any aberration of intellect in the late Mr. Featherstone," said Borthrop Trumbull, "but I call this will eccentric.†   (source)
  • When I observed this last, plain evidence of my friend's aberration of mind, I could scarcely refrain from tears.†   (source)
  • We will make a clean sweep of all these psychological points, of a suspicion against you, so that your crime will appear to have been something like an aberration, for in truth it was an aberration.†   (source)
  • People in general thought him a lunatic, and blamed his Reform Club friends for having accepted a wager which betrayed the mental aberration of its proposer.†   (source)
  • At length, in a case of aberration such as this, comment presented itself as more expedient than any answer.†   (source)
  • Listen, what is an aberration?†   (source)
  • A tremulous uncertainty of the action of all her limbs soon became a part of her regular state, and afterwards, at intervals of two or three months, she would often put her hands to her head, and would then remain for about a week at a time in some gloomy aberration of mind.†   (source)
  • Here was clearly a case of aberration in a christened child which demanded severe treatment; but Silas, overcome with convulsive joy at finding his treasure again, could do nothing but snatch her up, and cover her with half-sobbing kisses.†   (source)
  • Men cannot abandon their religious faith without a kind of aberration of intellect, and a sort of violent distortion of their true natures; but they are invincibly brought back to more pious sentiments; for unbelief is an accident, and faith is the only permanent state of mankind.†   (source)
  • The latter was followed by the naturalist, who, in a state of mental aberration, produced by the report of the musket, had instinctively rushed towards the rocks for cover.†   (source)
  • All this was prepared beforehand on the table, and, as he had done on the previous evening, he began to scrutinize Cosette's face with a gaze full of ecstasy, in which the expression of kindness and tenderness almost amounted to aberration.†   (source)
  • Everything belonging to Miss Nancy was of delicate purity and nattiness: not a crease was where it had no business to be, not a bit of her linen professed whiteness without fulfilling its profession; the very pins on her pincushion were stuck in after a pattern from which she was careful to allow no aberration; and as for her own person, it gave the same idea of perfect unvarying neatness as the body of a little bird.†   (source)
  • M. Mabeuf, pale, haggard, his eyes lighted up with the mournful flame of aberration, raised the flag above his head and repeated:— "Long live the Republic!"†   (source)
  • When one speaks of convents, those abodes of error, but of innocence, of aberration but of good-will, of ignorance but of devotion, of torture but of martyrdom, it always becomes necessary to say either yes or no. A convent is a contradiction.†   (source)
  • The story had been told in his presence, and he had verified the fact in the Moniteur, how a police inspector named Javert had been found drowned under a boat belonging to some laundresses, between the Pont au Change and the Pont-Neuf, and that a writing left by this man, otherwise irreproachable and highly esteemed by his superiors, pointed to a fit of mental aberration and a suicide.†   (source)
  • But apart from temporary aberration, the doctor diagnosed mania, which premised, in his words, to lead to complete insanity in the future.†   (source)
  • She made me cry again yesterday, and the day before, too, and to-day I suddenly realized that it's all due to aberration.†   (source)
  • But this nervous condition would not involve the mental aberration of which mention had just been made.†   (source)
  • Then, next day another fit, and the same thing on the third, and yesterday too, and then yesterday that aberration.†   (source)
  • When he recovered from the blow Dmitri Fyodorovitch gave him on the head, he was suffering from aberration; he went and committed the murder.†   (source)
  • Suffering from aberration.†   (source)
  • —you, I, all of us are in a state of aberration, and there are ever so many examples of it: a man sits singing a song, suddenly something annoys him, he takes a pistol and shoots the first person he comes across, and no one blames him for it.†   (source)
  • I was talking of aberration.†   (source)
  • He talked at length and with erudition of "aberration" and "mania," and argued that, from all the facts collected, the prisoner had undoubtedly been in a condition of aberration for several days before his arrest, and, if the crime had been committed by him, it must, even if he were conscious of it, have been almost involuntary, as he had not the power to control the morbid impulse that possessed him.†   (source)
  • The trumped up misdemeanour was due to a momentary aberration of heredity, brought on by hallucination, such familiarities as the alleged guilty occurrence being quite permitted in my client's native place, the land of the Pharaoh.†   (source)
  • The committal of homicide or suicide during sleep by an aberration of the light of reason, the incommensurable categorical intelligence situated in the cerebral convolutions.†   (source)
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