Word: rigidities
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...wonder, though, whether the appeal is inextricably tied to the evil--whether, for instance, the stability and sense of permanence I get from the South only grows out of its rigid racism and resistance to change. I suppose that to live there I will have to be able at least to maintain the illusion that the South can retain the appeal while the evil fades away...
Such figures as the majestic green-feathered angel and the rigid Madonna on the lunette fresco from Sant'Angelo in Formis (see color overleaf) are flesh-made-geometry. Even when a mosaicist tried to be more "naturalistic," as the Venetian artist who executed a Head of an Apostle in Rome around 1218 seems to have done, the medium itself-thousands of glass cubes like colored teeth-automatically formalized the work...
...floor. In the brooding Herod, the standing executioner, the vista of Moorish arches and sifting gloom, one sees the apex of the kind of sensibility that in the hands of a Cecil B. DeMille would be coarsened to death. Every inch of the surface glitters with an enameled vitality, rigid and sparkling. Moreau's favorite theme, that of fatality and evil incarnate in women, was also one of the pathological obsessions of the 19th century; but it never received a more final expression than here. ·Robert Hughes
...deal had historic resonance. "Big Six" is a local founded by Horace Greeley in 1850. It became a prototype of traditional craft unionism in which membership was passed from father to son, and rigid rules protecting jobs were written into contracts...
Situation ethics preaches against moral absolutes. When facing a choice for which more rigid codes offer an automatic answer (thou shalt not steal), a follower of situation ethics might decide upon reflection that breaking a literal rule would serve a higher moral purpose than observing it. Hence disclosing Government secrets, as in the Pentagon-papers case, might be justified by arguing that the act heightened opposition to an evil...