Word: vigor
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...forget.) The antinomian (existentialist is the current word, I suppose) bias of thinkers like Gordon and Buber clearly do clash with law-centered traditional Judaism. But the absence of an absolute ground for morality in these two writers is not, as Leifer says, evidence that Judaism today lacks vigor. Rather, it is a token that Gordon and Buber are groping for a truer, more relativistic truth than traditional Judaism ever admitted...
Right through to the glorious final Communio, the New York Pro Musica did far more than perform old music; it removed the patina from a neglected master, piece and presented it as living example of the vigor of the Renaissance...
...fields. Most conspicuous event was the quick death of the pines; but humbler plants died too, or their seeds failed to germinate. The only successful survivors were species of plants that can spring up from deep perennial roots. One annual weed, a kind of Arenaria, grew with unnatural vigor; its seeds apparently thrived on radiation...
Three nights after the Kirov's debut, Sizova stopped the show again with Yuri Soloviev in a wildly exuberant pas de deux from Marius Petipa's Corsair, part of a program of excerpts that the troupe brought off with virtuosity and vigor...
...paraded the 267 sleek yearlings for inspection. Most drew only a cursory glance. But others-the offspring of such favored sires as Hyperion, Polynesian and Nantallah-attracted knots of peering, prodding admirers. They were looking, explained Humphrey Finney, whose firm conducts the sale on a 5% commission, "for real vigor, for an impression of smartness and alertness, for the heart and the will...