"universal" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Freud also states that the only two "universal" taboos are that of incest and patricide, which formed the eventual basis of modern society.
- It never occurs to them that black women are breaking a universal taboo: women must never tell the truth about or make fun of men in public.
- Sigmund Freud posited that incest and patricide were the only two universal taboos and formed the basis of civilization.
- But that universal taboo is driven as much by the genetic dangers of inbreeding as by morality or law.
- In "Run for Your Wife," however, the farce derives from the breaking of a more universal taboo than office adultery: bigamy.
- Perhaps it is hopelessly naïve to seek to make terrorism a universal taboo; perhaps a nuanced moral clarity is a contradiction in terms.
- Rules limiting brother-sister and forbidding parent-child incest are so common in human society that anthropologists have wondered if they are the one "universal taboo."
- Torture is that paradox, an all-but-universal practice that is simultaneously a universal taboo, like incest.
- It is sometime mistakenly stated that there are no universal sexual taboos.
- Some observers noticed that people didn't want to deal with confronting a universal human taboo.
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