It would be a weakness, a sullying of what we feel for each other.

The real sullying of the great American icon, she added, was "him not freeing his slaves."

They were free of Earth's myriad problems, its contamination and sullying of all human events.

And the idea of legacy sullying is overstated.

You can imagine how severely upset Mr. Forrester is at the sullying of politicians left and right.

Alyosha is particularly devastated by the sullying of Zosima's name due to nothing more than the corruption of his dead body.

Neither escaped scrutiny in the book "Game of Shadows," and each has been accused of sullying the sport's record books.

Many anarchists believe that, despite any sullying of their reputation, it raised awareness of what they consider the evils of global capitalism.

The beakhead also housed the crew's toilets (head), which would drop refuse straight into the sea without sullying the ship's hull unnecessarily.

At the April 28, 1995, Mets home opener three fans, in a dramatic protest, crystallized a nation's collective anger over the sullying of its pastime.

As a result of what he calls your slanders and your unbearable sullying of professional reputatjon, he has forced the Chairman's hand."

While you may take reasonable measures to keep your home burglar-free, your safety should not come at someone else's expense or by sullying someone else's reputation.

If the Hellman spectacle remains with us, a puzzling cloud lingers as well: the sullying of her tremendous accomplishments with childish fibs and exaggerations.

In the early years of Iran's 1979 revolution, tourists - particularly American tourists - were considered dangerous invaders bent on sullying Islamic purity with Western culture.

Even the Liverpool directors saw fit to apologise for this latest example of their manager's seemingly endless ability for sullying the name of this great football club.

Dirty hands is a metaphor used in moral and political philosophy and everyday conversation to symbolize the sullying of one's moral standing by dealing with unsavory matters.

Hoping to avenge what he perceived as an unjust sullying of his reputation, the Spaniard will be among this year's 198 riders divided into 22 teams of 9 men each.

But that first attempt had been such a brutal and violent sullying of the most sacred spaces of her mind that she had abandoned all thought of the presence or its needs.

Here was that same example of the white middle-class, privileged patriarch, no longer guarding against the sullying of his goods and chattel, wife and servants, but fearing for his own depravity.

The party will have to deal not only with the sullying of Bertie's legacy but also the nexus between Fianna Fáil, major property speculators/builders and the financial institutions - the so-called "golden circle."

This announcement was denounced by the president's team as prearranged collusion and a gross sullying of the purity of science by an inappropriate and unscientific descent into partisan politics of the worst kind.

The result, critics of this administration contend, has been a disastrous loss of international support, damage to American credibility, the sullying of America's image and a devastating war that has already taken more than 1,000 American lives.

But a greater factor in the decline and sullying of the Falwell-flavored religious right is its collusion in the worldly corruption ushered in by this particular presidency and Mr. Rove's now defunct Republican majority.

'Despite the environmental carnage around the wreck, the sullying of the Shetland name and the ensuing loss of livelihood at the heart of our fragile economy the Government has done very little to protect us from another spill,' she said.

Perhaps that was Mr. Bratt's way of saying he was worried about sullying his straight-arrow image by playing the poet and playwright Miguel Piñero, who did jail time and died at 40 after a life of drugs and alcohol.

The day was too fine to sully by thinking of past problems.

But she had died and her memory was not to be sullied.

I loved his music and he sullied it for me.

"I know you feel sullied by what you've learned of him, but we have to make certain he's all right."

Allowed her to continue to sully the character of this town?

"And I will not have your reputation sullied by a man like this."

I will not have you sully yourself by your code for me.

I would rather people died than we sullied ourselves like that.

You have sullied the good Hughes name for the very last time.

I will not permit you to sully it in any way.

It was as if nothing must sully or mark that sand.

She would never do anything to betray Michael or sully his name.

At the time it had not occurred to Sully that the reason might be fear.

Do not sully yourself by turning your anger on her.

Worse, the project was sullied by the use of forced labor.

The air of the street was pleasant, being sullied only by smoke.

"I will not sully his integrity by accepting money from them."

The dead are not sullied by the ill that is spoken of them.

I would not sully my name or His with a falsehood.

Most care deeply enough for the game not to stand and allow its image to be sullied.

He had no wish to sully his wife's ears with stories of this sort.

I will not have them in my bedroom, because they sully."

No general worthy of the name can allow his honor to be sullied.

I know it is a fine institution, and I'm certainly not trying to sully its reputation.

"Her reputation was sullied before she died," I pointed out.