Word: notionalism
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...President fails to win the upcoming series of congressional votes that are designed to get health care legislation to his desk, it will be a calamitous failure for his presidency and for him personally, dwarfing the potholes he has hit during his first bumpy year in office. Indeed, the notion of defeat is so unthinkable for his Administration that Obama's foremost argument in rounding up support in the House and Senate is a panoptic imperative: health care is too important - politically and substantively - to fail. Should the effort collapse, regaining political traction would be nigh impossible any time soon...
...scenario devised by his roommate Aidan (Tate Ellington), the kind of wisecracking, sleazy oaf that always hangs around the hero in romantic comedies. Of all the tired, unrealistic means the movies use to get characters together, this ploy is the worst. I would rather be forced to swallow the notion of Tyler and Ally meeting through sheer coincidence than watch this unfold...
...protective plastic hastily thrown up over the windows of the president’s office in ’69 were still there, but they never needed to serve their purpose. Government professor Stanley H. Hoffman said about the student body, “They have the bizarre notion that a university is for studying.” David C. McClelland, a Harvard psychologist, made a name for himself selling theories about human behavior to government agencies and corporations. “In the Sixties, if you said ‘business,’ people spat...
...times, however, Lerner seems to be too preoccupied with the notion of the synthesis of form and content. One of the most frequent subjects of the collection is its own form. “Do not hesitate / To cut the most beautiful line in the name / Of form,” Lerner writes. Not only do these recurrent comments on the poetic form become redundant, but they also subtract attention from other sentiments expressed in the collection...
...band—whose closest approximation of a hit was 1994’s “Cut Your Hair,” which peaked at the giddy height of 10 on the Billboard Alternative Chart—seems more or less unnecessary, but even when one accepts the notion, this particular collection of songs proves frustratingly off. Many classics make the cut, and the band certainly showcases its versatility, but the album is hurt by glaring omissions and more than a few strange and self-indulgent selections...