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  • This time it was supposed to be on "An Incorrigible Chatterbox."†   (source)
  • I'm going to spell it out for you: Your mother is claiming that your past behavior at her house warranted her to discipline you because you were so incorrigible.†   (source)
  • But his default setting was stuck on eternal incorrigibility.†   (source)
  • Unlike Hawthorne's character's demise, though, Jim's is also heartbreaking—to the woman who is his de facto wife, to old Stein, the trader who sent him in-country, and to readers, who come to hope for something heroic and uplifting, something suitably romantic, for the incorrigibly romantic Jim.†   (source)
  • No. Jacob grinned, incorrigible.†   (source)
  • He was incorrigibly sentimental.†   (source)
  • On the other hand, he seemed almost amused by his family's incorrigible folly.†   (source)
  • Fernanda had not counted on that nasty trick of her incorrigible fate.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Hexter, glad of an ally, tossed that incorrigible gray head of hers and dashed into the conversation once more.†   (source)
  • But McWatt was incorrigible, and, while he never buzzed Yossarian's tent again, he never missed an opportunity to buzz the beach and roar like a fierce and low-flying thunderbolt over the raft in the water and the secluded hollow in the sand where Yossarian lay feeling up Nurse Duckett or playing hearts, poker or pinochle with Nately, Dunbar and Hungry Joe.†   (source)
  • The man was incorrigible.†   (source)
  • You're incorrigible.†   (source)
  • It is our humane way of getting rid of incorrigibles who would otherwise have to be executed.†   (source)
  • Also, I am not shy about admitting that I am an incorrigible Peeping Tom.†   (source)
  • You're an incorrigible materialist, aren't you?†   (source)
  • Paradoxically, it was her husband, Pavel Pavlovich, the son of a Moscow railway worker, who turned out to be an incorrigible urbanite.†   (source)
  • In their simplistic assessment, all southern whites were incorrigible racists who loved to eat grits, smell magnolias, and lynch blacks.†   (source)
  • JEAN: [to BERENGER] You're incorrigible!†   (source)
  • Incorrigible drunk driver sentenced to life in prison
  • Your children are incorrigible.
  • She's an incorrigible optimist.
  • Summer, fall, winter, spring, another summer, another fall-- so much he had given of his active life to the incorrigible lips of Judy Jones.   (source)
  • As for "incorrigibles," if really are, Luna eliminates such faster than Terra ever did.†   (source)
  • Incorrigible, said Dr. Bannerling, a devious dissembler.†   (source)
  • Marley was the incorrigible student and Kathy the hapless substitute teacher.†   (source)
  • Marley, my incorrigible, untrainable, undisciplined dog, had passed.†   (source)
  • Pony was from the first insubordinate and well-nigh incorrigible—in short, he died hard.†   (source)
  • Maybe you are incorrigible.†   (source)
  • One of the individuals he professed to admire greatly over the last two years of his life was a heavy drinker and incorrigible philanderer who regularly beat up his girlfriends.†   (source)
  • She was a stern, no-nonsense dog trainer who subscribed to the theory that there are no incorrigible dogs, just weak-willed and hapless owners.†   (source)
  • As the title implied, No Bad Dogs advanced the same belief that Marley's first instructor, Miss Dominatrix, held so dear—that the only thing standing between an incorrigible canine and greatness was a befuddled, indecisive, weak-willed human master.†   (source)
  • The horse had proved fairly useful as a stakes horse, but he was an incorrigible rogue at the starting gate.†   (source)
  • She looked at the phone as she replaced it, unconsciously saying out loud, "How little I know about you, little Bro ...our favorite, incorrigible Bro.†   (source)
  • The young man told him that he was the nephew of a well-known revolutionary, but that his parents were incorrigible reactionaries, real dodoes, as he called them.†   (source)
  • and she again, still without moving, not stirring so much as a muscle, as if she stood on the outside of the thicket into which she had cajoled the animal which she knew was watching her though she could not see it, not quite cringing, not in any terror or even alarm but in that restive light incorrigibility of the free which would leave not even a print on the earth which lightly bore it and she not daring to put out the hand with which she could have actually touched it but instead just speaking to it, her voice soft and swooning, filled with that seduction, that celestial promise which is the female's weapon: 'Call me Aunt Judith, Charles) Yes, wh†   (source)
  • what be asked me to do until the moment be asked it because I know that be would not have waited two months or even two days to ask it) —my presence was to him only the absence of black morass and snarled vine and creeper to that man who had struggled through a swamp with nothing to guide or drive him—no hope, no light only some incorrigibility of undefeat—and blundered at last and without warning onto dry solid ground and sun and air—if there could have been such thing as sun to him, if anyone or any thing could have competed with the white glare of his madness.†   (source)
  • Often, to keep the peace, I must go where life was less lovely; for instance, 'Tildy's mother was incorrigibly dirty, Reuben's larder was limited seriously, and herds of untamed insects wandered over the Eddingses' beds.†   (source)
  • Medora is incorrigibly romantic.†   (source)
  • He's incorrigibly corrupt.†   (source)
  • He is prevented by his incorrigible moodiness from going with them.†   (source)
  • but hobbled to her feet again, pulled herself up, and again with her sidelong leer which slipped and turned aside even from her own face, and her own sorrows, stood and gaped in the glass, aimlessly smiling, and began again the old amble and hobble, taking up mats, putting down china, looking sideways in the glass, as if, after all, she had her consolations, as if indeed there twined about her dirge some incorrigible hope.†   (source)
  • Like Hamlet, he turns from the fair features of the world to search the darkness for a higher kingdom than this of the incest and adultery ridden, luxurious, and incorrigible mother.†   (source)
  • Thus, too, they came to know the incorrigible sorrow of all prisoners and exiles, which is to live in company with a memory that serves no purpose.†   (source)
  • Conway was puzzled as to the ultimate basis of law and order; there appeared to be neither soldiers nor police, yet surely some provision must be made for the incorrigible?†   (source)
  • It was born (if from any source) of that incorrigible unsentimental sentimentality of the young which takes the form of hard and often crass levity—to which, by the way, Quentin paid no attention whatever, resuming as if he had never been interrupted, his face still lowered, still brooding apparently on the open letter upon the open book between his hands.†   (source)
  • But they are more or less ignorant, and it is this that we call vice or virtue; the most incorrigible vice being that of an ignorance that fancies it knows everything and therefore claims for itself the right to kill.†   (source)
  • existed or at least that she had never touched, emptied, it, had not come out and taken the basket up with that air which had nothing whatever of furtiveness in it nor even defiance, who doubtless tasted the food, criticised its quality or cooking, chewed and swallowed it and felt it digest yet still clung to that delusion, that calm incorrigible insistence that that which all incontrovertible evidence tells her is so does not exist, as women can; —that same self deluding which declined to admit that the liquidation of the store had left her something, that she had been left anything but a complete pauper, who would not accept the actual money from the sale of the store from judge Benbo†   (source)
  • from Ellen's vain and garrulous folly, that shape without even a face yet because I had not even seen the photograph then, reflected in the secret and bemused gaze of a young girl: because I who had learned nothing of love, not even parents' love—that find dear constant violation of privacy, that stultification of the burgeoning and incorrigible I which is the meed and due of all mammalian meat, became not mistress, not beloved, but more than even love; I became all polymath love's androgynous advocate.†   (source)
  • This was my instant, who could have fled then and did not, who found that he had gone on and did not remember when he had walked away, who found my okra bed finished without remembering the completing of it, who sat at the supper table that night with the familiar dream-cloudy shell which we had grown used to (he did not look at me again during the meal; I might have said then, To what deluded sewer-gush of dreaming does the incorrigible flesh betray us: but I did not) and then &fire the fire in Judith's bedroom sat as we always did until he came in the door and looked at us and said, Judith, you and Clytie—and ceased, still entering, then said, 'No, never mind.†   (source)
  • "Isn't he incorrigible?" cried Dorian, leaning forward in his chair.†   (source)
  • Everybody was full of awe and interest again right away, the incorrigible idiots.†   (source)
  • In San Quentin prison he had proved incorrigible.†   (source)
  • "What are you thinking of, you incorrigible missionary?" he asked.†   (source)
  • [taking her arms away with perfect dignity] You are incorrigible, Jack†   (source)
  • After this, Jim Hall went to live in the incorrigible cell.†   (source)
  • You are quite incorrigible, Harry; but I don't mind.†   (source)
  • [His cheerful, careless, vigorous voice shows that he is incorrigible]†   (source)
  • She caught her breath preparatory to giving this incorrigible sister a piece of her mind.†   (source)
  • "You're incorrigible," said Stremov, not looking at her, and he spoke again to Anna.†   (source)
  • Oh, you insupportable person, you are incorrigible.†   (source)
  • Vivvums mustn't lecture: her little boy's incorrigible.†   (source)
  • By my honor, these Gascons are incorrigible!†   (source)
  • As to me—will you never understand that I am incorrigible?†   (source)
  • The sooner she's sent to the school for incorrigible girls down at Sauk Centre, the better for all and—Won't you just have a cup of coffee, Carol dearie, I'm sure you won't mind old Aunty Bogart calling you by your first name when you think how long I've known Will, and I was such a friend of his dear lovely mother when she lived here and—was that fur cap expensive?†   (source)
  • I have no doubt he had been there, either in his butterfly-hunting days or later on, when he tried in his incorrigible way to season with a pinch of romance the fattening dishes of his commercial kitchen.†   (source)
  • The spirit which had made Bo incorrigible at home probably would make her react happily to life out in this free country.†   (source)
  • It appears you are incorrigible.†   (source)
  • As to Mary Jane, she is incorrigible, and my wife has given her notice, but there, again, I fail to see how you work it out.†   (source)
  • You're incorrigible.†   (source)
  • Those black angularities which his face had used to put on when his wishes were thwarted now did duty in picturing the incorrigible backslider who would insist upon turning again to his wallowing in the mire.†   (source)
  • He put it to her as if she had not grasped the consequences of her act; as if her incorrigible ignorance of business were about to precipitate her into a fresh act of folly.†   (source)
  • This time you've landed yourself; and if Tavy were not in love with you past all salvation he'd have found out what an incorrigible liar you are.†   (source)
  • His repudiation of this offer was almost shrill enough, in the excess of its surprise and humility, to have penetrated to the ears of Mrs. Crupp, then sleeping, I suppose, in a distant chamber, situated at about the level of low-water mark, soothed in her slumbers by the ticking of an incorrigible clock, to which she always referred me when we had any little difference on the score of punctuality, and which was never less than three-quarters of an hour too slow, and had always been put right in the morning by the best authorities.†   (source)
  • Now, Bildad, I am sorry to say, had the reputation of being an incorrigible old hunks, and in his sea-going days, a bitter, hard task-master.†   (source)
  • Josiah Bounderby of Coketown learnt his letters from the outsides of the shops, Mrs. Gradgrind, and was first able to tell the time upon a dial-plate, from studying the steeple clock of St. Giles's Church, London, under the direction of a drunken cripple, who was a convicted thief, and an incorrigible vagrant.†   (source)
  • Once, when just from college, and when Horrocks the butler brought him a letter without placing it previously on a tray, he gave that domestic a look, and administered to him a speech so cutting, that Horrocks ever after trembled before him; the whole household bowed to him: Lady Crawley's curl-papers came off earlier when he was at home: Sir Pitt's muddy gaiters disappeared; and if that incorrigible old man still adhered to other old habits, he never fuddled himself with rum-and-water in his son's presence, and only talked to his servants in a very reserved and polite manner; and those persons remarked that Sir Pitt never swore at Lady Crawley while his son was in the room.†   (source)
  • 'Bolder,' said Squeers, tucking up his wristbands, and moistening the palm of his right hand to get a good grip of the cane, 'you're an incorrigible young scoundrel, and as the last thrashing did you no good, we must see what another will do towards beating it out of you.'†   (source)
  • Under this impression, he secretly resolved to cultivate the good opinion of the old gentleman as quickly as possible; and, if he found the Dodger incorrigible, as he more than half suspected he should, to decline the honour of his farther acquaintance.†   (source)
  • "And one which will go far to efface the recollection of his father's conduct," added the incorrigible marquise.†   (source)
  • Whatever may be my admiration of this result, when I see the communes of France, with their excellent system of accounts, plunged into the grossest ignorance of their true interests, and abandoned to so incorrigible an apathy that they seem to vegetate rather than to live; when, on the other hand, I observe the activity, the information, and the spirit of enterprise which keep society in perpetual labor, in those American townships whose budgets are drawn up with small method and with still less uniformity, I am struck by the spectacle; for to my mind the en†   (source)
  • Amy being gone, Laurie was her only refuge, and much as she enjoyed his society, she rather dreaded him just then, for he was an incorrigible tease, and she feared he would coax the secret from her.†   (source)
  • Yes, it is only among us that the most incorrigible rogue can be absolutely and loftily honest at heart without in the least ceasing to be a rogue.†   (source)
  • If he were a criminal offender, he must surely be an incorrigible hypocrite; and if he were no offender, why should Mr Meagles have collared him in the Circumlocution Office?†   (source)
  • "You have no business to be incorrigible," was his friend's answer, delivered in no very soothing tone.†   (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)
  • The incorrigible old man's heart throbbed with excitement; he paced up and down his empty rooms listening.†   (source)
  • You are incorrigible.†   (source)
  • We never shall be rich, and Plumfield may burn up any night, for that incorrigible Tommy Bangs will smoke sweet-fern cigars under the bed-clothes, though he's set himself afire three times already.†   (source)
  • Some of his King's Bench familiars, who were occasionally parties to the full-bodied wine and the lie, excused him for the latter by saying that he had told it so often, that he believed it himself—which is surely such an incorrigible aggravation of an originally bad offence, as to justify any such offender's being carried off to some suitably retired spot, and there hanged out of the way.†   (source)
  • But even the satisfaction of talking with a distant connection of the British nobility did not render Amy forgetful of time, and when the proper number of minutes had passed, she reluctantly tore herself from this aristocratic society, and looked about for Jo, fervently hoping that her incorrigible sister would not be found in any position which should bring disgrace upon the name of March.†   (source)
  • This beastly, incorrigible truculence comes from your mother, Hera, whom I keep but barely in my power, say what I will.†   (source)
  • In truth, I found myself incorrigible with respect to Order; and now I am grown old, and my memory bad, I feel very sensibly the want of it.†   (source)
  • ...the power and corrigible authority of this lies in our wills.   (source)
    corrigible = correctable
  • Eros, Wouldst thou be window'd in great Rome and see Thy master thus with pleach'd arms, bending down His corrigible neck, his face subdu'd To penetrative shame; whilst the wheel'd seat Of fortunate Caesar, drawn before him, branded His baseness that ensued?†   (source)
  • [5] [Pg066] Thousands of other young Americans like him were growing up at the same time—youngsters filled with a vast impatience of all precedent and authority, revilers of all that had come down from an elder day, incorrigible libertarians†   (source)
  • BLOOM: (In workman's corduroy overalls, black gansy with red floating tie and apache cap) Mankind is incorrigible.†   (source)
  • "Ah, sinner that I am!" said Don Quixote, "how bad it looks in governors not to know how to read or write; for let me tell thee, Sancho, when a man knows not how to read, or is left-handed, it argues one of two things; either that he was the son of exceedingly mean and lowly parents, or that he himself was so incorrigible and ill-conditioned that neither good company nor good teaching could make any impression on him.†   (source)
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