Word: deflective
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...triumphs of espionage and applied intellect--those of Bletchley Park's decrypters against the German Enigma codes of World War II, for example--the value of intelligence in war, Keegan thinks, may be limited or illusory. "Knowledge, the conventional wisdom has it, is power; but knowledge cannot destroy or deflect or damage or even defy an offensive initiative by an enemy unless the possession of knowledge is also allied to objective force," Keegan writes...
...even in the face of calamity, he went on making love scenes, colored sometimes by the knowledge that man is a beast in all senses. In 1939, one year after White Crucifixion, he completed Midsummer Night's Dream, in which a woman uses her blue fan to deflect the ardor of a goat-ass who is but also is not Shakespeare's comic Bottom. We are born partly of the animal world, says Chagall, but sometimes we transform our base impulses into gold...
...call staffers back to swamped emergency rooms, but that was 10 days into the heat wave. Raffarin has personally drawn fire for refusing to return from an alpine vacation until Aug. 14 - the day before temperatures began to cool. He has since made a ham-handed attempt to deflect criticism by blaming understaffed hospitals on the 35-hour workweek passed by the previous government - and then scolding detractors for politicizing the tragedy. But at least Raffarin bothered to address the issue; Chirac said nothing until his solemn but less-than-contrite appearance late last week. Geriatric workers hope the news...
...that wants to protect whales and dolphins, is nonsense," says Richard Page, oceans campaigner for Greenpeace. "Developing countries have been taking a hard look at the situation and are realizing the importance of protecting these resources." Will the committee have real teeth? Too often bureaucracies set up panels to deflect disputes rather than resolve them. It's too soon to tell for the IWC; its new unit has yet to get organized. Defeated pro-whalers are still grousing. But despite dark hints last week that it might now rethink its IWC membership, Japan - like Iceland - is likely to stay...
...course, Pappin’s argument is little more than an attempt to deflect blame from his own views. Are we seriously to believe that Pappin was pretty neutral about this whole homosexual vs. heterosexual thing until he took a few Moral Reasoning classes or sat through a few lectures in an introductory class to philosophy? It would take a lot to convince me that his words are anything but long-held personal views cushioned with what he has picked up from Harvard...