Word: rigidness
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...these terms mean are very different from what the media seems to make them out to be. Islam means submission, that is to God, and a Muslim is one who has submitted. Obviously one who kills innocents cannot be considered to have submitted. Fundamentalism, on the other hand, means rigid adherence to fundamental or basic principles. Terrorism and all acts of violence are against the basic teachings of Islam; furthermore, the Quran prescribes a grave punishment for those who kill an innocent soul. Yet contrary to what it really means, Islamic fundamentalism is a term which seems to forever haunt...
...were not responsible for Western" or the beginning of Western history in such a way that the displeasure is removed. Truth is now reduced entirely to the subjective--a magic wand with which we manage to delude ourselves that the outer world conforms to our desires rather than a rigid measure by which we attempt to deduce the nature of reality regardless of our personal inclinations. Although, of course, the nature of human experience is such that objective truth will always remain elusive, we do have the choice to try to approach such truth as our ideal, rather than reject...
...train is recast in stainless steel; a porcelain effigy of Michael Jackson with his pet ape is slathered in bright gold glaze. Once in a while, Koons contrives an image of curious intensity, such as Rabbit, 1986, a stainless-steel cast of an inflatable plastic bunny, once pneumatic, now rigid and manically shiny, possessing some of the virtues of Claes Oldenburg's work 20 years before...
Although a number of students enjoy spending time with people who share their experiences and viewpoints, most students feel that there are no exclusive or rigid Hispanic social sets and no house with a particularly large Latino community...
...reason is that The Greek Miracle is an exercise in political propaganda, and has to embrace stereotypes that no classicist today would accept without deep reservations. First, the exhibit wants to indicate how Greek sculpture changed in the classical period, by showing its movement from the frontal, rigid forms of 6th century B.C. kouroi, whose ancestry lay in Egyptian cult figures, to the more naturalistic treatment of balance and bodily movement one sees in works such as The Kritios Boy (circa 480 B.C.), which was found on the Acropolis. And it demonstrates this in considerable detail, through marvelous examples...