Word: recant
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...Pastor Crist would not recant, instead announced that he was determined to continue voicing his views as a teacher. Then, his status as pastor uncertain until the general synod meets in Milwaukee next May to take final action on his case, he took off with his family for a vacation in northern Wisconsin...
While conservatives and liberals ranted, and the News similarly refused to recant, the new dean's office abolished Yale's traditional non-parietal rule system--because of "excesses." In its place it set up the 2 a.m. deadline...
...drama, but his fervor is always under control, and his heated voice never tries to add potency to his words. Rather is Niall MacGinnis, as Luther, remarkable for his restraint. At the scene of Luther's trial before Emperor Charles V, when Luther is offered safety if he will recant his theses, MacGinnis is superb. His voice and mouth tremble as he seems on the verge of tears, so passionate is his devotion to his religion and his anger at the corruption and venality of the Church he loved. By a lesser actor, this performance would be false with...
...collapsed termite burrows, they tell Frut, or erosions caused by the wind and rain. Defiant, Frut begins to wonder whether the Sages are really so sage. In anger, Frut argues in public that maybe tablelanders and creekers actually are equal. Rushed into jail and to trial, Frut refuses to recant about the Thing, and is sentenced to be eaten by Sarass the snake...
...unfinished tome on the battle of Stalingrad, had been certified as dialectically sound by Moscow's literati. But after it appeared, Kommunist angrily reversed the verdict: For the Right Cause was "permeated" with the wrong slant. Pythagorist Grossman, warned Pravda a few days later, had better recant...