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Worldly in his heart, he was also not averse to the Italians, drinking and praising "Lacrima Christi" (red) as he was writing a Latin oration on the Augsburg Confession.
Grès or Madeleine Vionnet, for instance--two neoclassic and erotic designers not at all averse to using bodily exposure--and then fantasticated a few notches further.
Yet at least for the CIA, part of the burden in tackling terrorism arose from the background we have described: an organization capable of attracting extraordinarily motivated people but institutionally averse to risk, with its capacity for covert action atrophied, predisposed to restrict the distribution of information, having difficulty assimilating new types of personnel, and accustomed to presenting descriptive reportage of the latest intelligence.
If only Klein weren't so categorically averse to American health culture, he might allow that a little self-imposed Puritanism now and then--a little punishing exercise here, a little culinary deprivation there--can be a sensual pleasure too, albeit of a different sort.
Companies averse to firing employees are, in a sluggish economy, reluctant to hire too.