Sentences with phrase «to abjure»

Unethical billing undermines the reputation of all legal professionals, including the majority who abjure such practices.

In contrast to liberalism, which abjures common ends, covenant directs political and social activity toward the common good.

Babette's lavish celebratory banquet tempts the family's dwindling congregation, who abjure such fleshly pleasures as fine foods and wines.

By abjuring her «rough magic,» burying her magician's staff and drowning her book of spells, Prospera elects to live in a world without supernatural possibilities; having demonstrated the power of art, she accepts the limits of that power and forsakes hubris for humility, something Ms. Taymor seems unable to do.

Finally I do not want to abjure for fear of making myself a perjurer.

A spare, dispassionate narrative that abjures overt irony and stylistic flair, Maine's forty - two mostly brief chapters recount the events of Genesis 6 - 9 from the viewpoint of the ark's eight passengers, with testimony in turn from each family member save Noah himself, whose account is rendered in the third person.

Wilson concludes with a note of charity and a more serious summons than his interlocutors, who urge doubters to simply abjure their faith.

The question is why did the Protestants abjure the idea of Eucharistic Sacrifice?

In a world where the power struggle has taken precedence over every other concern, where every group is interested not only in doing good but in seeing to it that it gets credit for doing good, and where good is being done for the sake of power, the church, as church, must surely feel called upon to go about its work with quietness and confidence, abjuring utilitarianism and the defensiveness that goes with it.

A: «I have given you my opinion on abjuring and sacrifice.

While it is true that the homosexual lobby brilliantly bullied the psychiatric profession into abjuring their long - standing assessment of homsexuality as a mental illness, the psychological and moral scars that children suffer by being made privy to the corrupting influence of homosexuals masquerading as parents have been amply documented.

But they should abjure religious indoctrination in the public schools.

We hear him say, «this rough magic I here abjure» (V.I. 50 - 51) and «Now my charms are all o'erthrown» (Epilogue).

Wishing to remove from the minds of your Eminences and of every true Christian this vehement suspicion justly cast upon me, with sincere heart and unfeigned faith I do abjure, damn, and detest the said errors and heresies, and generally each and every other error, heresy, and sect contrary to the Holy Church; and I do swear for the future that I shall never again speak or assert, orally or in writing, such things as might bring me under similar suspicion.

Amar considers himself a textualist, one who abjures free - wheeling constitutional invention and insists that constitutional meaning must be extracted from the words of the document itself, rightly construed.

To the two lay officers responsible for asking him to abjure before the fire was lit, Jan Hus replied: «God is my witness that I have never taught nor preached what is attributed to me by the depositors of false witnesses.

But on the whole, the realities of a single member constituency, first past the post, electoral system has seen the two sides abjure illusory happiness in the arms of another, and stick together for the sake of the kids.

The tracksuit is, according to Jane and Michael Stern's The Encyclopedia Of Bad Taste, «the uniform of people who abjure dry cleaners and ironing boards» as well as «the all - purpose solution to all clothing problems.»

Even in a democracy that mistrusts politics and abjures concentrated power, leadership matters.

Although certain forms of school choice (tax credits, some voucher programs) abjure state academic standards and tests, others (such as charter schools and public school choice) normally take them for granted.

Faithful to «progressive» traditions and postmodern beliefs, too many education school professors signal to future teachers that they should abjure firm distinctions between right and wrong.

In other words, they go it alone, abjure government, and do things it can't or won't do, even when that may mean «privileging the views of elites.»

The former approach dramatically foreshortened, but did not expunge, the allusive capabilities of art; the latter put illusionism — and, with it, metaphor — out to pasture, abjuring poetry for literalism.

What's more, the «untitled originals,» as they are called, possess the kind of classical art virtues that academic postmodernism typically abjures — things like technical virtuosity, sincerity, melodrama, and popular narrative.

Fredric Jameson suggests postmodern works abjure any claim to spontaneity and directness of expression, making use instead of pastiche and discontinuity.

[36] For example, according to McEvilly, postmodernism begins with realizing one no longer believes in the myth of progress, and Duchamp sensed this in 1914 when he changed from a modernist practice to a postmodernist one, «abjuring aesthetic delectation, transcendent ambition, and tour de force demonstrations of formal agility in favor of aesthetic indifference, acknowledgement of the ordinary world, and the found object or readymade.»

Even his effulgently pinkish floral still - lifes abjure virtuosity, though they beguile.

, Arbeit Macht Frei and so on) evoked still - fresh memories of the Nazi horror — to the first flush of Abstract Expressionism, when artists like Willem de Kooning, Jackson Pollock and Franz Kline abjured the luxury of color, not to give primacy to drawing or composition but to find something more elemental in the act and matter of their art.

My criticism abjures the marketplace for what meets the eye.

Those who abjure all those nasty carbon emitting activities and become suitably pure as the driven snow and are therefore acceptable as messengers?

The first of these is generally abjured as corruption, although it is a real factor in some jurisdictions.

Data that was earlier abjured due to constraints related to traditional data management technologies intended to handle volume, variety and velocity.

Because the digital currency abjured central banks and other authorities, many of its first devotees were libertarians, anarchists, and black marketeers who wanted to do business away from the government's watchful eye.

As well as eating and drinking, the faithful are expected to abstain from smoking and sexual relations between dawn and dusk, and to abjure lies, slander, greed, covetousness, giving false oath and denouncing someone behind their back (all of these are prohibited throughout the year by Islam.

And literary cliché is not abjured, as in three sculptures of Don Quixote.

The key question for theology is whether Kant can make any sense out of who the scriptures say Jesus is rather than abjuring the task and simply correcting the apostolic witness in light of some higher «religious» principle.

To abjure the last 2,500 years would be to lobotomize his enterprise.

Galileo was then interrogated under threat of torture, and made to abjure the «vehement suspicion of heresy».

I abjure you to have patience.