Word: notionalism
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...Democrats point out that the binary choice Bush offered does not allow for the possibility of a quagmire, where victory is not a choice-and the whole notion of victory must be redefined. The 35-page ?National Strategy for Victory in Iraq? that Bush released last month prepared the public for the fact that this victory ?will not come in the form of an enemy?s surrender, or be signaled by a single particular event-there will be no Battleship Missouri, no Appomattox...
...whimsically about how she met and married my father: “I wasn’t scared to marry him. My father had chosen him, our horoscopes matched. And that was that.” But to my roommate’s mother (and my roommate, too), the notion of an arranged marriage intimated something unfair—a childhood betrothal that failed to recognize that love should bind people together through their own volition. But there is more to an arranged marriage than that simple stereotype. Granted, like every other little girl in this country, I was raised...
...after Alwaleed issued a statement arguing that the U.S. “must address some of the issues that led to such a criminal attack.” Alwaleed later wrote an op-ed piece in the New York Times stating that he “reject[s] the notion that any person or any cause can justify terrorism.” But his statement came too late. But Alwaleed said he was not discouraged. “It was a misunderstanding,” he said. “Life goes on. I’ve always believed...
...confined to concentrating on the narrow region where this language is used. It makes much more sense for a student of Africa to satisfy himself with his knowledge of English or French—two of the continent’s much more far-reaching lingua franca. This notion is liable to be criticized as colonialist and directed exclusively at communicating with Western-educated African elites. However, it is only reasonable to choose to undergo African language education once one is far enough along in the study of Africa to know to a degree of certainty which locality one wants...
...Johannes Molanus, the Counter-Reformation's religious-art czar, banned the old, bald Joseph and stipulated a younger model. Artists like Murillo responded, resulting in, as Miesel puts it, "a vigorous, really studly Joseph." His saintly portfolio became extraordinarily diverse. (He now enjoys 24 "patronages.") Jerome's old notion had turned him into the patron of virgins, even as his paternal status made him the patron of families. The apocryphal scene of his death surrounded by Mary and Jesus was translated into his patronage of good deaths. ("When I was a little Catholic girl," recalls Anne Rice, "we used...