10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «UNCOMPLACENT»
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'It is the uncomplacent sort of sociologist who most insistently relates social
analysis to historical processes, to economic change and political interventions.'
The list of uncomplacent sociologists who exemplify these virtues includes ...
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Critical essays contributed to the Eclectic review,
... whereas he appears to have been haunted by some uncomplacent feeling,
which precipitated him through a scanty though appropriate selection of scriptural
authorities, connected by short reasonings, and followed by a general conclusion
, ...
John Foster, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, 1871
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Training school reader. [Ed.] by W.J. Unwin
And though, as we have said, there is much for uncomplacent presentiment in
beholding the bloom, animation, and unfolding faculties of early life, yet they who
are affectionately interested in the sight, are insensibly carried forward in ...
William Jordan Unwin, 1862
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Essays in a series of Letters to a Friend, on the following ...
As far as he really had any republican principles and partialities, this new desire
must have been a very uncomplacent associate for them, and must have
produced a schism in the breast where all the strong forces of thought and
passion had ...
There was hardly a number for many months which did not contain an attack
upon somebody," says Mrs. Gordon, with not uncomplacent candor ; yet the
abuse was but the seasoning which gave piquancy to the more serious mass of
brilliant ...
Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell, 1863
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Contributions, Biographical, Literary, and Philosophical, to ...
and complete : whereas he appears to have been haunted by some
uncomplacent feeling, which precipitated him through a scanty though
appropriate selection of scriptural authorities, connected by short reasonings,
and followed by a ...
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Essays in a Series of Letters
On removing into a new circle of society, for instance, we could perceive by the
number of things in which we found ourselves uncomplacent and unconformable
with the new acquaintance, the modification which our sentiments had received ...
Rather, the aporia of the demos – the internecine or auto-immune struggle of
equality and freedom – calls for unending vigilance, uncomplacent politics, highly
singular engagement, and always inventive decision. Indeed, amid this enduring,
...
Simon Morgan Wortham, 2010
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Choice and Morality in Anthropological Perspective: Essays ...
... enthusiasm, and an unrelenting pursuit of the truth that underlies the
conventional defenses we construct against it. He is one of the most
uncomplacent men I have known." While Professor Freeman has demanded the
utmost in scholarly ...
Derek Freeman, George N. Appell, T. N. Madan, 1988
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Seamus Heaney, Poet of Contrary Progressions
Heaney's poems matter because their uncomplacent wisdom of trust is felt upon
the pulses, his and ours, and they effect this because they themselves constitute
a living relationship of trust between him and us." In an "Ireland torn by ...
8 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «UNCOMPLACENT»
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Monroeville's Harper Lee won Pulitzer Prize 54 years ago today
In a 1963 interview with AP writer Hal Boyle, Lee mentioned, "success has had a very bad effect on me. I've gotten fat, but extremely uncomplacent. I"m running ... «AL.com, May 15»
Montreal a nice challenge for Ought's resident Aussie Tim Keen
“I think there's danger in being like, 'We are asking you to be uncomplacent,' as if we are innately less complacent than anyone else, or less complicit than ... «Straight.com, Sep 14»
How writing helped Edward St Aubyn exorcise his demons
He's the most uncomplacent person you could imagine. ' St Aubyn says up until the new book, Lost for Words, his habitual writing method was one of 'tension ... «Telegraph.co.uk, May 14»
Duruthu Poya (2014-01-15)
Being uncomplacent means that you have to watch out for the details, the little things, the tiny flaws that arise in the mind. If you can do this, you'll be able to keep ... «Ceylon Daily News, Jan 14»
Peaks and valleys of learning in Chile
I have a contented yet uncomplacent class to teach. But the serenity that surrounds me on the campus of Los Andes will remain unattainable downtown for a ... «Times Higher Education, Jul 13»
Lionel Trilling in His Labyrinth
Trilling made a complacency of being uncomplacent, yet he could occasionally indulge a drowsy commonplace, as when he uncritically assented to the dogma ... «City Journal, Oct 11»
David Cameron issues an imperial denial of complacency about …
In order to show how uncomplacent he is, he twice described the figures as “disappointing”. Ed Miliband refused to accept these assurances. The Labour leader ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Sep 11»
The No-Publicity Bestseller: On Harper Lee
"I've gotten fat—but extremely uncomplacent. I'm running just as scared as before." It wasn't until long after the hoopla died down that a lengthy interview with ... «Publishers Weekly, Jun 10»
