President A. Bartlett Giamatti of Yale has said that the Moral Majority, with its simple prescriptions for complex problems, is a «cry of exhaustion, a longing for surcease from the strain of managing complexity.» (religion-online.org)
Of piety and of peace I had perfect comprehension; solitude without surcease showed the straight way, whose intention - too secret for me to mention - left me stammering, but going past the boundaries of knowing. (firstthings.com)
And yet even William, Sacks reports, seems to experience surcease from his «identity - delirium» when wandering in the garden. (firstthings.com)