Word: fatalism
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...well as a material being. He upholds continence as a possible virtue whereas his every critic (including, sadly, many Catholic priests) at least implicitly regards continence as an impossible virtue to modern man. To deny the possibility of continence (in any human field) is to profess the democratically fatal doctrine that man is a determined being, not a free one-a doctrine at the base of too many political, social and economic practices already eating away at the foundations of human liberty...
...heavy, canelike conductor's baton while leading an orchestra; Charles Valentin-Alkan (1813-1888) toppled a bookcase over on himself while reaching for a copy of the Talmud; Tchaikovsky (1840-1893) came down with cholera after drinking a glass of tap water; and Wallingford Riegger (1885-1961) suffered fatal brain damage when he became entangled in the leashes of two fighting dogs and fell on a sidewalk...
...most common causes of irreparable, irreversible liver damage is a congenital abnormality of the bile ducts called biliary atresia, which behaves like a malignancy and usually proves fatal within 18 months of birth. The other cause is cancer itself, which may strike...
...frame through which El Cordobés' life is seen is his Big Fight - the 1964 Madrid corrida in which he was elevated to the status of matador de toros and in which he survived a near-fatal goring. Every tense moment in this corrida is the cue for a flashback: the future El Cordobés growing up in an earth-floored hovel where he sometimes has only grass to eat; serving a grueling apprenticeship at village fiestas where the only available medical care is a slosh of alcohol in an open wound; rising under the tutelage...
...judge saw it, the students ran into fatal trouble on the very "threshold" issue: he was not convinced that his court had jurisdiction, despite the students' claim that the university was an agent of the state. Frankel agreed that some Government money helped to support the university, but that "is not enough to make the recipient an instrumentality of government," he said. "Nothing supports the thesis that university 'education' as such is a 'state action...