Word: bulwark
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...complicated. In a mid-life crisis solved the French way, he left his wife and family in Paris in 1917 for a new life in Nice with a personal harem of models. But Matisse dreaded the anarchic power of his desires. His sunlit rooms and elastic nudes are a bulwark against his fears of love and death. No less than Picasso, he made the canvas a defensive perimeter. His genius was to trim the battlements in the camouflage of paradise...
...Bill of Rights, the bulwark of a society committed to ordered liberty, has emerged from the past year tattered. A host of freedoms—freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, due process, access to legal counsel and protection against unwarranted search and seizure—have been the victims of a national leadership that has unflatteringly sought to acquire power at every opportunity...
...that would have left half of Rwanda in the hands of those Hutu perpetrating the genocide and thus would have allowed them to finish what they had started in the zone they controlled. Grotesquely, the presence of humanitarians, in one aid expert's words, "far from representing a bulwark against evil, [may become] in fact one of its appendages...
...Even in the clothing manufacturing business?a bulwark of developing Asian economies?the country seems to be giving away any competitive advantage it once had by way of a cheap labor force. Minimum wages in Indonesia have grown rapidly?in Jakarta, by nearly 40% this year alone?and now are higher than in more developed Thailand, relative to each country's per capita income. Unions are now pushing for ill-conceived labor laws that call for employers to pay workers whenever they go on strike?effectively forcing manufacturers to underwrite crippling work stoppages at their own factories...
...said Brownstein, who splits lead vocals with Tucker and backup with Weiss. The taut interplay between the three is the band’s greatest strength: Tucker’s massive quiver is braced by Brownstein’s sonorous shouts, while Weiss is a unrelenting rhythmic bulwark...