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Mozart, in Hulce's extraordinary portrayal, is vulgar, completely devoid of all seriousness and an offense to every tradition society holds dear. And yet it is also immediately apparent to Salieri that Mozart has a talent immeasurably greater than his own. Where Salieri makes dull human compositi...
Bingley's reports had not been exaggerated. If anything, he had understated the seriousness of Mr. Darcy's case. He had not been prey to excess flesh before, as Mr. Hurst was, but he appeared to have lost nearly two stone of weight. His skin was a sallow, sickly color. It appeared...
which requires that criminal sanctions bear some reasonable relationship to the seriousness of the offense, was foreshadowed by the Magna Charta prohibition of excessive fines (Solem v. Helm, 463 U.S. 277, 103 S. Ct. 3001, 77 L. Ed. 2d 637 [1983]). The concept of due process was inh...