Word: rigidness
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...small, violent Muslim fundamentalist sect known as Takfir wa Hijra (Atonement and Holy Flight) may have been involved. This group, a band of urban guerrillas seeking to transform Egypt into a rigid Islamic state, exhorts its members to use "sacred terror" to achieve its objectives and is known to have built cell groups within the armed forces...
...Painted Word, he ends up doing what he accuses his bogies of: the meaning of the work is drowned in a spate of "theory," and each time the theory is undercut by Wolfe's stridently commonsensical attitudes. These, after a while, read like condescension, as a rigid adherence to the surface usually does. Plus ça change, plus c'est la méme pose. -By Robert Hughes
...order to protect the fetal life, such an amendment would have to go well beyond inviting individual states to ban abortion," Tribe told the panel. "The most basic human impulses are likely to prevent even the most rigid abortion laws from being strictly enforced," he added...
...then, the Faculty Council had to sail through a very narrow channel. On one side lay the Scylla of lax control over professors which could involve the University in sticky financial conflicts or lure faculty from their teaching commitments; on the other rested the Charybdis of strictures rigid enough to drive away top-notch professors. Whether the council succeeded may not be evident for years, when the commitments that Harvard's faculty make in the next year or so begin to surface. And as Watson suggested, the University may never learn how many potential faculty its tough rules dissuade from...
Most of all, the game's the thing Everyone plays at least an intramural sport at West Point, and there will be a lot of vicarious signal-calling among the rigid legions of gray this afternoon...