Word: eschewing
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Perhaps such floral provocations are part of the shift away from the cozy and toward the industrial in our homes. Or maybe as florists eschew mere arrangement and become "event planners," their work becomes more ambitious...
...horseback-riding scene in the dazzling Phobjika Valley, Khyentse Norbu explains his attempts to realize a Buddhist teaching that calls for blending elegant behavior and outrageousness. "You have to be a little outrageous," he says, "or else you become enslaved to society. But at the same time, if you eschew society altogether you can have no connection to other people. And then you can't be an effective teacher." As he speaks, the crew bickers heatedly about how to deal with a recalcitrant horse. It's supposed to run away with an actor on its back, but it refuses...
...time when prominent Catholic figures should be reaching out to their communities, Law has done the opposite, retreating behind legal briefs, heading toward bankruptcy to eschew moral obligations and withdrawing into the overwhelming internal secrecy of the Catholic Church itself. Indeed, in a world where the Catholic Church has come to mean a tightly-knit, spiritual community and not a priesthood divorced from the congregation, the Boston Archdiocese has become increasingly reactionary. Instead of opening its doors to abuse victims, Church officials have withdrawn. And Cardinal Law’s overarching entanglement between matters of finance and morality seems like...
Thankfully for both America and the world, President Bush is not a petro-hungry imperialist, but rather a strong leader with the courage and moral clarity to eschew those who seek oil money through appeasement. Despite continued opposition from what New York Times columnist William Safire has aptly dubbed the “Paris-Moscow-Beijing axis of greed,” the United States will soon be forced to topple a lethally-armed megalomaniac and liberate the Iraqi people...
...have long had a turbulent relationship with liberals—I believe deeply in their causes and eschew their techniques. Their self-righteousness too often disgusts me, although I vote happily every two years for Bernie Sanders, the socialist congressman who represents my home of Vermont. Four years ago, when I left the Senate, I thought I had found in Wellstone a candidate for president in whom I deeply believed. Thus, when he bowed out of the race in January 1999 for health and family reasons, I was crushed. That disappointment was the beginning of a long frustration with...