Word: absolutistic
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Because these groups failed in their attempt to challenge the crown, the absolutist government in Russia remained absolute. Pipes thinks the peasants had the potential strength to succeed where the others had failed but that they lost the chance because they were politically unaware. Pipes is angry with the "stupid" peasant because he was too lazy to organize as a class to challenge the serfdom that was oppressing him. For this reason, the peasant was "ill-suited for any political system except an authoritarian or anarchistic one," and he let the opportunities of the intelligentsiarun revolution pass...
...chance in design, the shaped canvas, the horizontal-stripe picture), he has never been part of a "movement." At 50, painting and sculpting on his Hudson Valley farm, Kelly remains a loner, both in temperament and in style. His pictorial intellect - graceful, aristocratic, verging on the absolutist but never programmed - is far removed from the pugnacious limit-pushing and problem-solving of most advanced New York art. Of all living American painters, figurative or abstract, Kelly emerges closest to the spirit of classicism...
...such figures as Sir Robert Peel whom she once described as a "cold, unfeeling and disagreeable man" with a smile "like a silver plate on a coffin." Others benefited from Victoria's longing for a father: notably her first Prime Minister, Lord Melbourne, a charming Whig and absolutist to whom she was deeply attached. Melbourne's indifference to reform may well have atrophied Victoria's own social conscience. But her will to be loved, confined but not reduced by the palace schedules, finally descended on one man and produced the most celebrated marriage of the 19th century...
...Surrender, Nowhere was that view clearer than in Black's absolutist interpretation of the First Amendment as protecting all speech, yet he found that the amendment's wording could not be extended to protect such actions as flag or draft-card burning. Last year Black wrote: "I believe the court has no power to add to or subtract from the procedures set forth by the Founders. I shall not at any time surrender my belief that that document itself should be our guide, not our own concept of what is fair, decent and right...
Meredith worked two modern themes: the war between the generations and the war between the sexes. His best-known novel, The Ordeal of Richard Feverel (1859), deals with an absolutist father who brings up his son according to a rigid system that, among other things, makes no allowance for sex. The reaction is as disastrous as it is predictable...