Satyagraha, "mass taunting" or "collective needling.", gargantuan, inelegantly-named

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For the opera, see Satyagraha (opera). For the 2013 Hindi film, see Satyagraha (film).

Satyagraha (/ˌsætɪəˈɡrɑːhɑː/; Sanskrit: सत्याग्रह satyāgraha), loosely translated as "insistence on truth" (satya 'truth'; agraha 'insistence') or "soul force"^[1] or "truth force," is a particular philosophy and practice within the broader overall category generally known as nonviolent resistance or civil resistance. The term "satyagraha" was coined and developed by Mahatma Gandhi.^[2] He deployed satyagraha in the Indian independence movement and also during his earlier struggles in South Africa for Indian rights. Satyagraha theory influenced Nelson Mandela's struggle in South Africa under apartheid, Martin Luther King, Jr.'s and James Bevel's campaigns during the civil rights movement in the United States, and many other social justice and similar movements.^[3][4] Someone who practices satyagraha is a satyagrahi.
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He is always taunting, testing limits, playing, up to some finely calculated point, with others' emotions. The essence of his spiritual gift is an edged gaiety, an Indic variety of kidding on the level, which keeps everyone—intimates, followers, rivals, officials, wisdom seekers from the West—psychologically off balance, unable to find their moral feet with him. Forged into a political instrument this becomes the famous Satyagraha, which literally means "truth force" or "perseverance in truth," is usually translated as "passive resistance" or (somewhat better) "militant non-violence," but which could perhaps be most informatively rendered as "mass taunting" or "collective needling." What in the end Gandhi did to colonial India was drive it to distraction.



“Satyagraha” (a Sanskrit term that means truth force) is more a musical ritual than a traditional opera. Impressionistic and out of sequence, it relates the story of Mohandas K. Gandhi’s fight for the civil rights of the Indian minority in South Africa from 1893 to 1914. The staging — created by Phelim McDermott, director, and Julian Crouch, associate director and set designer, for the Met and the English National Opera, where it was seen last year — makes inventive use of fanciful imagery, aerialists, gargantuan puppets and theatrical spectacle to convey the essence of a self-consciously spiritual work.


现代音乐作曲家-Philip Glass 歌劇《真理堅固（Satyagraha）》Philip Glass 受荷蘭鹿特丹市委託所作的歌劇 Satyagraha 於1980年９月首演，旨在敘述及闡揚甘地所創造的 Satyagraha 精神，...全劇以梵文演唱，歌詞則取材自薄伽梵歌當中的經文。歌劇的第一幕被命名為 Tolstoy，代表的
真理堅固（ 梵文：सत्याग्रह，Satyāgraha，英語：Satyagraha），字面意思為堅持真理，由梵文satya（真理）與 agraha（堅持）所組成的複合字，起源自印度教。它是非暴力抵抗與公民抵抗運動之中的一個思想流派，由甘地所創。甘地以真理堅固思想來推動印度獨立運動，這個思想對於南非納爾遜·曼德拉與美國馬丁·路德·金恩有很大的影響。

所謂的Satyagraha，是握住真理、愛與虔敬的意思。
Satyagraha本質上不是一個政治運動，而是一個喚醒和邀請你的對手和你愛的人民，一起合作走向真理、愛與虔敬之路。

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disproportionate 

adjective

too large or too small in comparison to something else, or not deserving its importance or influence:

There are a disproportionate number of girls in the class.

The country's great influence in the world is disproportionate to its relatively small size.

censure 

n [U] FORMAL

strong criticism or disapproval:

His dishonest behaviour came under severe censure.

censure 

verb [T] FORMAL

Ministers were censured for their lack of decisiveness during the crisis.

cen・sure

 

━━ n., vt. 非難（する）, 叱責（する）; 酷評（する） ((for)).
 cen・sur・a・ble　━━ a. 非難すべき.

piece together

tr.v., pieced, piec·ing, piec·es.

1. To mend by adding pieces or a piece to.
2. To join or unite the pieces of: He pieced together the vase. She pieced together an account of what had gone on during the stormy meeting.

idioms:

a piece of (one's) mind

1. Frank and severe criticism; censure.

of a piece

1. Belonging to the same class or kind.

piece by piece

1. In stages: took the clock apart piece by piece.

piece of cake

1. Informal. Something very easy to do: “Relearning to fly was a piece of cake” (Burton Bernstein).

piece of the action Slang.

1. A share of an activity or of profits: “a piece of the action in a Florida land deal” (Shana Alexander).

piece of work

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[Middle English pece, from Old French, from Vulgar Latin *pettia, probably of Celtic origin.]

taunt Show phonetics
verb [T]
to intentionally annoy and upset someone by making unkind remarks to them, laughing at them, etc:
The other children used to taunt him in the playground because he was fat and wore glasses.

taunt Show phonetics
noun [C]
The protesters shouted taunts at the police.

needle (ANNOY) Show phonetics
verb [T] INFORMAL
to annoy someone, especially by repeated criticism:
His mother was always needling him about getting a job.


gargantuan Hide phonetics
adjective
very large:
a problem of gargantuan proportions
a gargantuan appetite