Citations:incestuous

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English citations of incestuous

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  • 1638 Herbert, Sir Thomas Some years travels into divers parts of Asia and Afrique
    ...the name of wife or brother unknowne among theſe inceſtuous Troglodites: feeding, ſleeping, ſpeaking all together without order or law...
  • 1977, Mel London, Getting Into Film, page 4
    The feature film is, of all the film opportunities, the most closed, the most incestuous, the toughest one to crack.
  • 1993, Gary W. Selnow, Richard R. Gilbert Society's Impact on Television: How the Viewing Public Shapes Television Programming, page 42
    Each member of the video family constantly interacts with the other because television is the most collaborative of all the popular arts - some would say the most incestuous.
  • 2003, Adam Bellow, In Praise of Nepotism: A Natural History, page 488
    With the advent of the two-career couple, Washington has become more incestuous than ever before.
  • 2019 July 3, Omri Nahmias, Mark Levin, “Mark Levin, Unplugged”, in Mishpacha[1]:
    It’s an incestuous thing. Faculty at the liberal, Ivy League schools are involved in hiring other faculty, who later hire the next generation of faculty. There’s very little intellectual or philosophical diversity in our newsrooms as a result. Furthermore, as I pointed out in the book, there’s a large number of so-called journalists who work for Democrat politicians, who go back and forth between politics and journalism.
  • 2019 November 14, Tim Bryce, “What I Have Learned About the Democrats”, in Bryce on Politics[2], LinkedIn:
    Democrats have the luxury of controlling the public narrative, thanks, in large part, to their incestuous relationship with the news media.