Word: rigidities
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...form of Church writing, to set the tone for their reign rather than to spark debate or overhaul Catholic teachings. With this work, released Wednesday by top Vatican officials, the pontiff may have once and for all moved beyond the caricature painted by his opponents of a cold and rigid doctrinal enforcer from his quarter-century as John Paul II's chief of orthodoxy...
...HONESTY FROM ADULTS. IS THAT WHAT YOU BELIEVE? They're miles more O.K. with the sort of rigors, tragedy and innate chaos of life than we are. This understanding of chaos is something we lose as we get older. It's a shame, because it makes us much more rigid...
...oversee the council’s website and voting software. “Since 2002, there have been perceived glitches with the UC [voting] software,” said Glazer. “Whenever there was a switch in a student’s location, the software was too rigid and it wouldn’t allow them to vote.” Glazer said that during the presidential and vice presidential elections, the voting system had trouble registering freshmen in Claverly Hall until Faculty of Arts and Sciences Computer Services was able to resolve the issue...
...disproportionate number of women in science indicates that there must be disproportionately few men in some other discipline—English, for example. Yet, we hardly ever hear about them; in fact, we rarely hear anything about masculine gender roles, though it appears that these are often even more rigid. Female doctors are now completely commonplace, but male nurses still warrant notice. Suggest that a woman ought to cook dinner because of some inherent ability, and you may end up eating a lonely meal of take-out, but what man would take offense at the assumption that he ought...
...from militant atheism. Somehow, critics imply, this should mean that Lewis’ work is sub par or meaningless. Why Tolkien’s critique should disqualify Lewis’ work is not clear, unless one expects Christians to have identical worldviews and opinions, and to march in a rigid theological lockstep. One could, of course, advance this argument, but it is fundamentally unserious...