Word: particularity
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...these laws become neutral, objective principles to which everyone can appeal. A law is intended to bring order out of chaos. When it turns out that the law is poorly suited to its purposes or otherwise deficient, then it can be changed. But it must be changed in a particular way: by the people themselves, through representatives accountable to them alone. This is what "consent of the governed" means. As a practical matter, the consent of the governed is expressed by legislators who are voted into office for the purpose of writing new laws and changing old ones...
...that he, a self-described "meek intellectual," had nothing in common with his tattooed, motorcycle-riding, machinist brother. Then Dean started telephoning a couple of years ago, just to see how Keith was doing. Keith, to his surprise, was happy to get the calls. Dean says he had no particular plan, that he had never even thought about the years when they were out of contact. "If you were never close," he says, "you never miss...
While Professor Otnes says she wasn't referring to any particular Christmas gifts, I had a feeling the tampons one participant in her survey received from a grandmother might have informed her opinion. Or maybe it was the woman who sent her sister a bag of Doritos and an opened...
...blood...and maybe a piece of your soul. What made The Plant such a hilarious Internet natural (at least to my admittedly twisted mind) was that publishers and media people seem to see exactly this sort of monster whenever they contemplate the Net in general and e-lit in particular: a troublesome strangler fig that just might have a bit o' the old profit in it. If, that is, it's handled with gloves...
...generally unbearable nature. Houellebecq simply refuses to let his characters be real human beings. They can exist only as generational archetypes or the embodiments of philosophical speculations. "Was it possible to think of Bruno as an individual?" muses Houellebecq's narrator. "The decay of his organs was particular to him, and he would suffer his decline and death as an individual. On the other hand, his hedonistic worldview and the forces that shaped his consciousness and desires were common to an entire generation." While it is of course legitimate to view a character in relation to his or her society...