Word: rigidities
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...make for some very sloppy law," says Stanford Constitutional Expert Gerald Gunther. "But in the long run I think it is a healthy sign, because it reflects the fact that some judges are engaged in a serious effort to rethink difficult problems. You need a breaking up of rigid lines before you can come up with a coherent set of rules for new questions...
...reform their party before the next national election; the job may be difficult since the party has its own right-center-left factions, which constantly disagree. Leftists last week demanded Fanfani's resignation as a cure. One reformation might be to give his job to a younger, less rigid man like Defense Minister Arnaldo Forlani, a centrist more palatable to the left...
...because of strong national sentiment but rather because of a host of other factors: the extended British lines, the aid of the French, the unorthodox modes of American warfare, the ingenious makeshifts and improvisations of American commanders who had not had the advantage of being bred in a rigid European military etiquette (Americans would actually fight at night, in the woods and on rainy days), and the steadfast, courageous leadership of George Washington. In retrospect it might be more accurate to say that the British lost, than that the Americans...
...expressed hope that Greece would re-enter the alliance. Considering the utilitarian American view of the Mediterranean, it is not hard to understand Caramanlis's conception of a United Europe--without NATO and the U.S.--as an alternative to the current balance of power. The old framework is too rigid to contain the present multiplicity of societies. There is no longer a Communism to pit the Western system against--perhaps, as the late Greek Prime Minister. George Papandreou has written, even the term democracy is simply a euphemism and a way of confusing the mind...
...most primitive joy of the film is its vindictive morality. Rarely has a purer, more rigid and satisfying morality been preached to me since elementary school: If you follow all the directions of the firemen, you will get out alive. Just what I was told in third grade. A few innocent people get killed, for the sake of pathos, but basically, if you obey orders you'll be saved. Unless, of course, you're a Sinner. In this movie sin means, say, staying after work to have sex with your secretary. The connection between adultery and hellfire has never been...