Word: swaying
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Indeed, our very achievements in dealing with the world brought most Americans under the sway of a shared mythology. As a society of men and women who had fled the persecutions and power politics of the Old World, Americans−whether Mayflower descendants or refugees from the failed revolutions of 1848−came to assume that we were beyond the reach of the imperatives of traditional foreign policy...
...elections in which money becomes a decisive factor are referenda, because there are no candidates involved who might sway voters through their own personal appeal. In contests over Equal Rights Amendments, handgun bans, bottle bills, or nuclear power limitations, voter "education" is the key. The side that can mount the most effective advertising campaign is usually the side that wins...
...emblematic of a couple of delinquents hazing an uncomprehending immigrant and each other on a street corner after everyone else in town has scurried into their apartments for the night. No doubt, then, hailing from Kansas means you've whiled your precious life away watching the wheat push and sway up from the clodded earth. The Indian Wants the Bronx is a half-hour exercise in existential schmaltz. West Side Story and The Wizard of Oz are cliches, too, but they exude wit and romance where The Indian only hits you over the head with sociological pretension...
...composed Mea Culpa after touring Russia in 1936. The tract castigates the government that had invited him; it is a frenzied denunciation of the Soviet system's accomplishments, goals and aspirations. He appends a peculiarly personal tag to an ostensibly social message, but then, Celine typically let instinct hold sway over his world-view. He scorned dispassionate philosophy. Instinct tends to be an irrational, solipsistic faculty, and Celine's surrender to it poisoned his literary reputation...
...Royal House of Orange has held sway in The Netherlands almost without interruption for 400 years, and according to the constitution, its monarch is "inviolable." Most of Queen Juliana's royal subjects hoped that the same was true of her dapper, German-born husband Prince Bernhard, 65. When rumors from the Lockheed bribetaking scandals began to gather around Bernhard's royal head last February, the majority of the Dutch public preferred to consider their esteemed merchant prince innocent, at least until proved guilty. Last week, however, the prince was forced to resign from virtually all his public...