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abide verb accept, acknowledge, acquiesce, adhere, agree, assent, carry into execution, comply, concur, cooperate, endure, execute, follow, heed, obey, perform, permit, respect, sanction, stare, submit, subscribe to, suffer, tolerate, yield Associated concepts: abiding conviction See also: adhere, allow, bear, continue, dwell, endure, inhabit, last, lodge, occupy, permit, persevere, persist, reside, subsist, suffer, tolerate How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| When we impose severe and excessive
punishment, when we seek an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, a life
for a life, when we seek revenge on lawbreakers by some clumsy
arithmetic we call justice, we become violent law abiders. Are his
sermons in Chapter 6 as much to himself as to the sign groupies and
incensed law abiders that make up this strange crowd?
Moreover, both Dunham and Guston honor high modernism in the breach by
violating its laws in ways that render them more vivid than does the
work of average law abiders. |
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