Word: aright
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...admitted master, John Calvin, is not exempt. Once, when someone questioned the unorthodox way in which he was commenting on Calvin, Barth retorted: "Calvin is in Heaven and has had time to ponder where he went wrong in his teachings. Doubtless he is pleased that I am setting him aright...
...orthodox dogma that Barth has tried to set aright-much to the dismay of other theologians in the Reformed Church -is the best-known and gloomiest of Calvinist tenets: predestination. In his Institutes, Calvin argued that God has already determined both those who will be saved at the Last Judgment and those who will suffer the eternal pangs of Hell. Barth says that this belief does not pay sufficient heed to the fact that Christ's death was intended for all men: Man's ultimate fate is shrouded in mystery, but Barth believes that Christ, the loving Judge...
Eighteen years after Sewall had entered Harvard, the resident fellows echoed that statement: "Now the great End for which the College was founded, was a Learned, and pious Education of youth, their Instruction in Languages, Arts, and Sciences, and having their minds and manners form'd aright...
...History alone," Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer Harold Macmillan told the House of Commons last week, "will prove whether what we did was right or wrong," and, he added, "I believe that history will show that we have chosen aright." But as keeper of the national purse strings, it was doughty Harold's unpleasant duty to point out to his countrymen that whatever the verdict of history might be, it was bound to prove expensive...
...Enzo Ferrari, the mere fact of victory is less vital than interpreting aright the lessons that the races burn into his automobiles. Says he: "The importance of a race is not so much who is the victor, but the technical results that show whether the engineer is on the right road and progressing." To make sure that he stays on the right road, Ferrari hustles his cars back to his Maranello factory after a race. There they are disassembled and minutely examined by their maker for flaws and hints on how to improve their performance...