John Varvatos

Music and fashion have had a kind of incestuous relationship since the Fifties. It started with people like Elvis Presley and pop icons like James Dean. Then it exploded in the MTV days. Now, with the Internet, it's instantaneous.

American Designer

Lyndon B. Johnson

There is but one way for a president to deal with Congress, and that is continuously, incessantly, and without interruption. If it is really going to work, the relationship has got to be almost incestuous.

American President

Anand Giridharadas

The American television punditocracy - the pollsters, political consultants and other talking heads who become as ubiquitous as air every election cycle - can be incestuous and herdlike.

American Author

Diane Lane

It's all so confusing and incestuous and curious, the trail that actors wander through in the course of their careers and how stories overlap. It's funny.

American Actress

Petina Gappah

Publishing can be a cliquish and incestuous business; it is not uncommon for writers from the same agencies and publishers to review each other.

Zimbabwean Writer

Penelope Keith

So often actors only mix with actors, which is quite incestuous, and doesn't give them the insight into how other people work.

British Actress

Jeanette Winterson

London is a small place, and it is very incestuous. People know where you live. Everybody is sort of on top of each other.

British Novelist

Branford Marsalis

I think that one of the problems that jazz has is that it's so incestuous that it's starting to kill itself.

American Musician

Jack Anderson

The incestuous relationship between government and big business thrives in the dark.

Journalist

David Hallberg

Ballet is incestuous. This world is smaller than small.

American Dancer

The term carries a strong social stigma and is considered taboo.

Negative Connotation

In many places, incestuous acts are illegal.

Legal Implications

Understanding different cultural views on incest is important as they vary widely.

Cultural Sensitivity

The word can describe a group that is overly exclusive or self-serving without any sexual context.

Non-sexual Usage

Using 'incestuous' to describe work environments may be misinterpreted, so choose the context carefully.

Professional Caution

It sometimes refers to ideas or practices that are too interrelated and lack freshness or innovation.

Metaphorical Scope

 dead of her own hand in their incestuous bedroom, took the broaches from her dress and stabbed his eyes repeatedly. You can't blame the guy, can you? Bedded his mother, killed his father, is father and brother to his children. I might do the same.

The battle of the Greek...

 also theoretically we don't really want him to be mating with cassava or Tandy at this stage given that Tandy is his sister effectively the same mother and in kochava Stanley's daughter it's a little bit incestuous

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