Word: clingingly
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...traditionally safe seats in danger during the 1974 election campaigns, worried leaders came up with a limited home-rule bill, promising a regional ("devolved") assembly for Scotland if Labor was returned to power. Though the Tories, too, belatedly endorsed devolution, the Labor initiative wooed enough Scottish voters to cling to power in Westminster. Even so, the Scottish nationalists boosted their representation in Parliament from one seat to eleven, cutting into Labor support...
...those acoustically balanced halls of justice, the personnel and practices of Middlesex County government have not changed much since the bad old days when men in pin-striped suits traded political favors in smoke-filled rooms. Balding attorneys and paunchy politicians still hover in the hallways. Superior Court judges cling to their traditional summer long vacations even though the new building's air-conditioning system makes the respite obsolete. And the triumvirate of commissioners empowered to appoint most of the county's 2200 employees feuds with itself more bitterly than ever...
...also because they do not take into account the breadth of human experience. Without revelation from God, he says, philosophers cannot prove their case for the dignity of mankind, nor can they provide any coherent basis for the truths and values to which people, religious or not, want to cling. In his view, the Bible offers the most comprehensive and satisfying explanation of "the meaning and worth of individual existence...
...last essay, "The Iliad, or the Poem of Force," she goes so far as to challenge Marx, arguing that force, rather than class struggle, is the key to man's fate. And since liberation from these forces is hopeless, she concluded, to deal with "affliction" man must cling to a belief in a Supernatural Good--for Simone, perhaps, to a Christian...
Since the setting is a splendid antebellum mansion, it lacks that faint, haunting perfume of defeat that ought always to cling to a work of Tennessee Williams. But perhaps the Deep South is not ante-or postbellum any more. T.E. Kalem