“If America would like to express that it truly values and appreciates the voices of its minorities, it will listen to all their stories, not just the ones reacting to its shortcomings and brutality,” he wrote.
In a culture that has become obsessed with how our identities define us, far less time is spent considering how those identities just as often circumscribe. Just as emphasis on diversity can open minds, it can also harden preconceptions.
Only a few years ago populist nationalists exercised voluble sway over the region’s politics. Now Venezuela’s Hugo Chávez is dead, Cristina Fernández is out of power in Argentina and Rafael Correa has opted not to run again in Ecuador
Thinking of Muslims overall as a homogenous group is foolhardy—however much some of the West’s demagogues encourage voters to. The terrorists themselves, of course, are keen to prove that the West does indeed anathematise all Muslims. To see such killers as representatives of a religion, and to reduce a complex picture to their preferred caricature, would be to reward their crimes—just as circumscribing the principle of free speech would be to bow to their medieval fantasies http://econ.st/1wweVzy
Thinking of Muslims overall as a homogenous group is foolhardy—however much some of the West’s demagogues encourage voters to. The terrorists themselves, of course, are keen to prove that the West does indeed anathematise all Muslims. To see such killers as representatives of a religion, and to reduce a complex picture to their preferred caricature, would be to reward their crimes—just as circumscribing the principle of free speech would be to bow to their medieval fantasies http://econ.st/1wweVzy
William Shakespeare
"Delivers in such apt and gracious words
That aged ears play truant at his tales,
And younger hearings are quite ravished;
So sweet and voluble is his discourse."
--Rosaline from "Love's Labour's Lost" (2.1.78)
bodice‐ripper, a popular modern variety of romance that emphasizes the sexual excitement of seduction and ‘ravishment’, usually in colourful settings based on the conventions of the historical novel and peopled by pirates, highwaymen, wenches etc. A classic example is Kathleen Winsor's best‐selling romance, Forever Amber (1944). See also S & F.
voluble
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ADJECTIVE
circumscribe
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Pronunciation: /ˈsəːkəmskrʌɪb /
Definition of circumscribe in English:
VERB
1Restrict (something) within limits:the minister’s powers are circumscribed both bytradition and the organization of local government
Origin
late Middle English: from Latin circumscribere, fromcircum 'around' + scribere 'write'.
anathematize
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VERB
ravish
Pronunciation: /ˈravɪʃ /
Definition of ravish in English:
VERB
Middle English: from Old French raviss-, lengthened stem of ravir, from an alteration of Latin rapere 'seize'.
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- rape from (Late Middle English):This originally referred to the violent seizure of property, and later to the carrying off of a woman by force. It comes via Anglo-Norman French from Latinrapere ‘seize’, also the source of the wordrapacious and rapid [both M17th], and of rapt(Late Middle English) and rapture (late 16th century), when you are carried away by your feelings. In Old French repere was changed to ravir, source of ravish (Middle English). The plant name, rape, originally referred to the turnip. It is from Latin rapum, rapa ‘turnip’.
ravisher
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