I'm constantly having to shield children's ears from this perniciousness.

Surely no single factor explains the perniciousness of school shootings more than the intense news media focus they draw.

People who don't understand the perniciousness of drug and alcohol addiction think, 'If someone's gone through detox, why haven't they got the message?' "

The politicians of the late 18th century were more aware than we seem to be of the perniciousness of religious "certainties" used in political argument.

They forgot the perniciousness of habit-of the habit of having deci- sions made for you."

However, Weber warns of dangerousness or perniciousness in relation to Marxist ideal-types when seen as empirical reality.

Many of these students were poor and African-American or Latino, and we excused such unconscionable levels of failure on the perniciousness of poverty.

The perniciousness of this amnesia didn't strike him until he attended the university in Freiburg, where the conservative faculty had been intellectually molded under the Third Reich.

For example, the Drug Enforcement Administration need not present alternative viewpoints on the benignity of marijuana, but may unequivocally propound its own viewpoint on marijuana's perniciousness.

And there is the perniciousness of violence as life style -for instance, the way older children learn to protect younger siblings by taking them to another room while their mothers are beaten.

No, not just about racism and sexism, but also about the perniciousness of any kind of prejudice that reduces people - yes, even white jocks - to racial caricatures.

To the Editor: Shelby Steele, in "Affirmative Action Must Go" (Op-Ed, March 1), correctly notes the perniciousness of affirmative action.

Indeed, Ms. Shattuck is so anxious to marshal testimony from speech pathologists and pediatrics professors about the perniciousness of baby talk that she ignores the pleasure the show brings children of all ages.

Being a baron and a 19th-century male, Coubertin failed to perceive the perniciousness of European classism and universal sexism, so invitations to participate in the first modern Olympics were issued to "gentlemen" only.

The perniciousness of this season was underlined yesterday when a Yonkers woman was killed on a sidewalk by a skidding delivery truck, the third death in the area attributed to the weather during the current snow-and-ice cold snap.

He was so adamant about the perniciousness of the Rotarians, that when I grew up, became a university lecturer and was invited to talk one night to the local branch I hesitated for several days before replying.

Voice actress Linda Gary imbued Evil-Lyn with the qualities of perniciousness and refinement simultaneously, and indeed, whatever the character did, she did it with style, unlike the vast majority of the other villains.

Appalled that mankind still craves authoritarianism, he returned repeatedly to the perniciousness of power, the folly of self-satisfaction and always to the dilemma of modern man, caught between his search for personal salvation and his ambivalence about finding it.

It is epic poetry set not in verses but in dazzling sentences - now epigrammatic, now dramatic, often funny and always memorable: the building blocks of a telling metaphor for the perniciousness of politics and the rapacity of politicians.

His ideas stress the perniciousness of the temporal rule of the clergy and its incompatibility with the teaching of Christ and the apostles, and make note of the tendencies evident in the measures of the "Good Parliament" of 1376-77.

Children's new access to the music provided a new fear for parents, a fear that has bolstered groups like the censorious Parents' Music Resource Center, the organization based in Arlington, Va., that has consistently exaggerated both the perniciousness and propagandistic impact of rock lyrics.

And because she appears so serenely firm of will and lucid in her objectives, she becomes an oracular spokeswoman for what Mr. Foote is saying about the perniciousness of deracination in an urbanized society and the importance of staying on speaking terms with one's past.