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Personality ideal is "an image of the ideal self that is not neurotically unrealistic, nor a mere velleity that one would like to strive tot 'sometime but not now'" (Hague, 1986, p.
The essential elements of Dabrowski's theory of positive ... by Ackerman, Cheryl M. / Roeper Review
16) Politicians who vouchsafe the moral quality of their acts by categorical ideals flirt with a sort of demonism in having "associated the quality of a divine command to a human velleity.
Eric Voegelin and Reinhold Niebuhr on the moral resources of democracy by Russell, Greg / Modern Age
Pynchon's vocabulary was fantastically recondite, and I still have the notebook in which I jotted down the meanings of oneiric, abreaction, runcible spoon, hebephrenics, Antinomian, rachitic, velleity, preterite, and a couple dozen other words impossible to use in ordinary conversation.
Pynchon from A to V: Rocket redux; Gerald Howard on Gravity's ... by Erickson, Steve / Artforum International
 
 
 
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