Word: mortalism
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...will probably be explosions of violence that may shatter the imperial superstructure. Those parts of the empire that were never integrated into Russia and that are now gravitating toward the West or to the Muslim world may eventually leave. But the rest of the country will not suffer a mortal blow as a result. In fact, quite the contrary: the revival of a Russia shorn of the least compatible remnants of its imperial legacy may encourage the development of a new federation whose diversity is, once again, a source of strength rather than weakness...
...avoid "he" or "him" in these cases, many verses use plural pronouns. Unfortunately, the third-person-plural wordings are less personal and often less pointed than the singular forms. The word man, which occurs in many well-known verses of the R.S.V., is replaced by such synonyms as "mortal" or "humanity...
...Einstein was a lousy husband. The fact is that we will never know; Albert and Mileva have fallen into some Pynchonesque black hole of history that claims the dead. The longer we think about them, the more uncertain everything becomes. Einstein will forever after be a little more mortal, and that's good...
Mandela's reduction in rank from antiapartheid god to mortal man was predictable. "When he was still in jail, there was nothing that he could do wrong," says Willie Breytenbach, head of African studies at the University of Stellenbosch. "It is almost as if there has been a decultification of Mandela." Veteran liberal Helen Suzman says Mandela has been hurt by his inability to stop black-on-black violence. "People who were unreservedly delighted at his release have become a little uneasy," she says...
Americans like to think -- they thought so in 1919, in 1945 and now again in 1990 -- that having conquered the great evil of the day, they have conquered evil, that having defeated today's mortal threat, they have banished threat...