Word: outworn
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...author, Haile Selassie had set about turning his country into a modern nation, hoping to learn, as Japan had quickly done, from Europe and America. Restored to his throne, however, he did less to open his country to the future than to close it within the past, preserving outworn traditions, and his own tenure, long after their usefulness had passed...
...true. Both are untrue. What we need to do is wonder at how firmly this brief, incredibly fecund period set the terms of the cultural argument that would preoccupy the rest of the century. The shock of the new drew much of its reshaping, revolutionary force from frustration with outworn artistic conventions and had been gathering strength and energy out of repression and dismissal for at least 50 years...
...Pagan suckled in a creed outworn...
MARRIAGE--WHAT AN ABOMINATION! LOVE--YES, BUT NOT MARRIAGE. --George Moore Some gay activists spurn the idea of same-sex marriage, suggesting that homosexuals are buying into the corrupt ideology of an outworn institution. Writing in the New York Times, author Frank Browning maintained, "The problem is with the shape of marriage itself. What we might be better off seeking is civic and legal support for different kinds of families that can address the emotional, physical and financial obligation of contemporary life." This is the idea that endorsing marriage is endorsing the traditions of a society that explicitly rejects homosexuality...
...these outbreaks of irrationalism? Because in a highly technological age, where not just production but now information and thought itself are being mechanized, the need for escape is powerful. The world is too much with us. William Wordsworth yearned "to be a pagan, suckled in a creed outworn." We're not immune. Indeed, an age in which we carry around 6-lb. boxes that can digitize information and rationalize thought at 133 MHz is an age even more susceptible to the call of the wild...