incestuousness

Artists resented the incestuousness of the art scene (however much they may have participated in it).

In the "sequel" to Oedipus, Antigone, his four children are also punished for their parents' incestuousness.

The incestuousness is remarkable."

It's even a coup that Harry's mom is played by a Harry--the incestuousness extending to their very names.

Though no one will ever come right out and say it, at the executive level Hollywood quietly justifies its incestuousness by appeal to the mysterious process of creativity.

Add to all this corporate incestuousness the recent 33 percent interest taken in Cablevision by Tele-Communications Inc., the parent company of Liberty.

(Already an often taboo-breaking series, this also injects a sense of incestuousness between the two figures, who are ostensibly raised as sisters, in addition to lesbianism.)

"It is the smarminess and incestuousness that is most objectionable," said Charles Lewis, the director of the Center for Public Integrity.

This festival, the first Irish film event of such scope or ambition in New York City, is as remarkable for its incestuousness as for its sheer variety.

But Charles Lewis, who runs the Center for Public Integrity, a nonprofit watchdog group in Washington, said the vacations merely underscored "the level of incestuousness between the railroad industry and the regulator."

Many different reasons have been given for the downfall, including increased competition from the arrival of large-scale providers like AT&T, possible legal difficulties, and the apparent incestuousness of the company and its core users.

North Indian Hindu society not only follows the rules of gotra for marriages, but also had many regulations which went beyond the basic definition of gotra and had a broader definition of incestuousness.

Among other things, "Lord Byron's Doctor" is about the mental incestuousness of the Romantics, and perhaps of the literary imagination in general - an incestuousness that is both fertile and destructive.

Incest in Ada seems mainly to be a sexual manifestation of the characters' intellectual incestuousness, and operates on a similar plane as do other instances of "sexual transgression" in Nabokov's novels of this period, such as pedophilia in Lolita and homosexuality in Pale Fire.

Perhaps, on the domestic front, some innate evolutionary imperative, an awareness of the incestuousness of it all, led many of them - not just Louis XIV but also Charles II of England and a number of "princes of the blood" - into compulsive adultery as a means of expanding the gene pool.