He also ran a campaign that challenged longstanding shibboleths of American diplomacy.
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But she flees old-time shibboleths; hers is its own kind of otherworldly.
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Positions on issues like gun control are shibboleths of some of our tribes.
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There was the expected laundry list of hoary, right-wing shibboleths, grudges and chimeras.
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This doesn't mean that all Republican voters care about the conservative movement's goals and shibboleths.
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Progress on the rethinking of Reaganite shibboleths that his campaign promised has been scattered and rare.
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Yet in recent years prominent artists have started to challenge some of the genre's conservative shibboleths.
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This was a strategically poor time for Trump to reach back to nativist shibboleths of any kind.
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Adnan's language summons transcendent experiences, like shibboleths the poet utters to cross a room without "thinking" it.
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They (in fairness, I should say "we") get some enjoyment from puncturing shibboleths with data and observation.
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Front Burner Sometimes this column prompts me to discard personal shibboleths like: Never buy pre-made hamburger patties.
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It's just fun to watch the mayhem and outrage that erupts when those secular shibboleths are openly mocked.
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You go on about ideology and shibboleths and knowing, but we are right on the issues, aren't we?
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Child evangelical that I'd been, I knew as little about pop culture as I did about East Coast shibboleths.
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What Republicans have held forth as fundamental principles are, thanks to Trump's election, revealed as hollow bromides and shibboleths.
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Even suggesting that Israel might have to give anything up in the name of peace involves challenging conservative shibboleths.
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Instead, he forcefully challenged the decades-old shibboleths of Republican economic orthodoxy as yoked closely to pro-business interests.
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"According to one of the prevailing shibboleths of the present age, this commingling of cultures is inherently good," he writes.
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For all his faults, Mr. Trump recognized that the Republican path to the presidency was incompatible with many conservative shibboleths.
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And that ineffable quality of style makes articles by British or American writers distinct, even in the absence of obvious shibboleths.
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History has repeatedly proved these shibboleths wrong, and even the American people no longer seem to buy them, but that hardly matters.
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It's one of Fassbinder's most unusual and self-revealing projects, and it defies political shibboleths of the artistic milieu of the time.
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Where audiences converge in a worldwide culture of "sharing," and diversity and connectedness join equality and freedom as the shibboleths of Western liberalism.
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The sample bias was amusingly intentional, designed to ferret out an archetypal No Labels-style "Innovation Party" politician, untethered to predictable partisan shibboleths.
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He served up a set of pretty mainstream Republican tax-cutting shibboleths; he did so without getting mired in any weird or ugly distraction.
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Among those shibboleths: That the conflict can be solved by returning to the status quo ante 1967, or at least an approximation of it.
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What I mean by making readers uncomfortable is to offer the kind of news that takes aim at your own deeply held convictions and shibboleths.
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When the white have-nots revolted in successive decades, they appropriated the elite's racist shibboleths — and took them so much further than the haves ever intended.
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One of the most cherished shibboleths of the right is that African-Americans complain about police brutality while conveniently overlooking the violence in their own neighborhoods.
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In the poisonously divided politics of 2016 Washington, even suggesting that Israel might have to give anything up in the name of peace involves challenging conservative shibboleths.
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In one Manila slum I visited, where English terms like "human rights" and "extrajudicial killings" are sprinkled into Tagalog like grim shibboleths, almost everyone opposes the bloodletting.
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With a new American administration in power, there is a historic opportunity to have an open discussion of real alternatives, unhampered by the shibboleths of the past.
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Read more " _____ • Luke Savage in Current Affairs: "'The West Wing' is an elaborate fantasia founded upon the shibboleths that sustain Beltway liberalism and the milieu that produced them.
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He was accused of plotting to blow up a Lenin memorial and the headquarters of Putin's United Russia party in Crimea, a veritable checklist of Russian nationalist Shibboleths.
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Forrest McDonald, a presidential and constitutional scholar who challenged liberal shibboleths about early American history and lionized the founding fathers as uniquely intellectual, died on Tuesday in Tuscaloosa, Ala.
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The shibboleths of the left here are really non-functional, the idea that you need to be a victim of some oppression, that you need to have economic hardship, no.
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Much of this could read like a list of liberal shibboleths, but Hill's firm grasp of history ensures each piece of his argument is seen for the evidence it is.
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But let me give the administration some credit: When it comes to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, at least it isn't stuck in a time warp, hanging on to hoary shibboleths.
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More broadly, in part but not entirely because of Trump and his presidency, many of the foreign policy community's shibboleths could very well apply to a world that no longer exists.
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" Surrogates have aped Mr. Trump's "blame both sides" rhetoric; overnight, antifa — and its assumed synonym, "alt-left" — have become right-wing shibboleths, right there with "social justice warrior" and "liberal snowflake.
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In keeping with his progressive campaign for president, Sanders attacked the shibboleths of the foreign policy elite, while formulating an alternative way to look at national security that incorporated his egalitarian economic views.
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Yet while she's sympathetic to the antirape movement, she's also willing to challenge its shibboleths, describing cases in which the line between bad sex and sexual assault is in fact hard to discern.
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And the two shows had one far larger thing in common: Thanks to the politics of their creative personnel, they became cultural shibboleths, shows that stood in for certain worldviews to many observers.
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The quaintness of these conjured shibboleths was no accident: Brexit rhetoric was all about a battle to save English values and an English way of life beleaguered by waves of immigration and European interference.
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O'Neill has frequently been critical of the way that views on the right to die have neatly cleaved along class lines, with a pro-euthanasia stance becoming identified with upper-middle-class, progressive social shibboleths.
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Over time, the debate about foreign aid to Egypt has spawned several shibboleths The Egyptian government, for its part, has come to regard American aid as an entitlement related solely to maintaining peace with Israel.
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Democrats and Republicans alike appear to be in a perpetual state of slack-jawed bewilderment as they watch her stand up to powerful lobbyists, stomp on shibboleths and clap back at her trolls on Twitter.
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Dropping nerd shibboleths like "Trump is a Dalek" announces one's belonging to a particular tribe and subconsciously encourage those who would regard themselves as members of the same group to get onboard with the sign's stance.
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"I can imagine tax increases for companies like Apple," Lindner told the Sueddeutsche Zeitung newspaper, in an apparent sacrifice of one of his party's shibboleths to smooth the path towards an unprecedentedly tricky three-way coalition.
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Judge Kavanaugh's right-wing supporters and left-wing opponents are equally keen to portray him as a guaranteed vote to overrule Roe and other liberal shibboleths, but hard cases often cause justices to confound ideological expectations.
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How refreshing to see a presidential candidate actually talking about these issues without indulging in so many of the woke shibboleths that we see from Elizabeth Warren and even from Bernie Sanders from time to time.
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But Daniel Johnnes, Dinex's wine director, and four of his sommeliers mercifully held the line to five courses, each served with two wines (or a wine and a beer, in one case) meant to counter enduring shibboleths.
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Relevance is one of the great shibboleths of criticism, and after a real-life event as dramatic and complex as this year's election, the temptation to seek clues and answers in works of popular art is almost overwhelming.
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More than a few viewers have also noticed that its story line serves as a covert critique of some cherished shibboleths, especially the kind of everyone-gets-a-ribbon egalitarianism that post-boomer generations have grown up on.
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Even though we are well into the 21st century, the wisdom of the past — that aspirational wine drinkers should avoid Lambrusco as they would rosés and Sicilian wines, to cite two other shibboleths — still has a hold on people.
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Jones even elicits sympathy for those evangelical Christians who, witnessing their gradual media irrelevance over culture-war battlegrounds like LGBTQ issues, do find themselves, like Hirsch, at a cultural sea, unable to navigate a society whose new shibboleths they do not know.
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He writes about race less regularly these days, and, when he does, it is often to dismiss the new mood as a kind of cult, long on shibboleths and pieties but woefully short on methods for bettering the lives of black Americans.
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If you're part of the community, there are certain words that act as Shibboleths to fashion people, and though they have meaning to the larger English-speaking world, too, they definitely do not mean the same thing when Ghesquière rolls off your tongue as easily as great.
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He certainly can't let Pence outmode him on the ticket, and for the same reason he won't allow other Republicans to imitate Pence—to unctuously fall back on tired right-wing shibboleths as if Trump's candidacy had just been a bad dream—when their time comes.
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As part of it, some top Fed officials like Governor Lael Brainard have suggested the "opportunistic" concept as a way for the Fed to calibrate its action and set aside some old monetary policy shibboleths to show policymakers are serious about meeting or exceeding 2% inflation.
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The iconoclasm that, as a senator, Mr Cruz did as much as anyone to cultivate, found a more obvious outlet in Mr Trump, who, whatever else his drawbacks, had not spent his adult lifetime in politics, and moreover had no attachment to Republican shibboleths on trade and protectionism.
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Grammar can seem as technical and off-putting as math or physics to many people who nevertheless can speak, read and write very well, and while some books on language prey on readers' insecurity with lists of word-choice peeves and classist language shibboleths, Crystal efficiently punctures such snobbery.
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Even if Trump had not taken over the Republican Party, conservative shibboleths would be practically useless for the purposes of resolving the party's contradictory promises to repeal the ACA without throwing millions off of their health insurance, and to leave people with pre-existing conditions vulnerable to discrimination by insurance companies.
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Americans and Europeans share many concerns about China's version of state capitalism, which requires foreign firms to buy access to Chinese markets by handing over technology to local rivals and sensitive data to the government, and—as American basketballers just learned—to adopt China's line on Hong Kong, Taiwan and other nationalist shibboleths.
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But even if he demurs, those who do run could learn something from the peripatetic Texan about shattering old political shibboleths; about the value of genuinely listening, the power of empathy and the need for an authentic, connecting narrative that can help lift our divided country out of the morass we're in.
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Their tendency will be to make policy according to jingoistic shibboleths and to turn the council into a kind of ideological echo chamber, issuing decrees and leaving them to be carried out by operational actors — mainly the State Department, service branches and law enforcement agencies — insufficiently consulted about the advisability of a given course of action.
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There's also some reflexive truth to Tesla versus Taycan; car people are raised on the concept of competition as central, and by the time they rise to the executive ranks, they dutifully recite the shibboleths in the same way that major-league ballplayers tell reporters that they're taking things one game at a time and are in it for the team.
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New Zealand may be thousands of miles from Europe or the United States, but videos of the killer show that he was deeply entrenched in the global far right, a man familiar with the iconography, in-jokes and shibboleths of different extremist groups from across Europe, Australia and North America, as well as a native of the extreme-right ecosystem online.
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It seems implausible to me that a shy literary boy would put himself so abjectly at the service of a hot jock out of no more than a confused gratitude for being implicated vicariously in the scrum of human society, but Ives's novel is full of signs that she doesn't think much of traditional literary shibboleths like three-dimensionality of character.
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And by transposing some of the grit and silly shibboleths of contemporary city life onto that alternate landscape, the map (and the little blog posts he wrote to accompany it) prodded you to entertain the possibility that this ruined future might not feel like an emergency to those living it, that life in that archipelago might have all the richness, realness and inanity of ours.
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Once you learned about what to call it — and who was responsible — the name Kate Spade became one of the worst-kept Shibboleths of the '90s that also contained fashion's greatest secret: that you could have taste without being snobby, that you could love fashion and not its frills, that you could be the kind of person who needs to keep their papers on their person, to bring your lunch with you, and to require the constant accessibility of a day-planner, but look goddamn chic doing it all.
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Here's hoping that his misrendering of toponymic shibboleths is the worst damage they suffer.
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"Fourteen Words", "14", or "14/88" are furtive shibboleths used among white supremacists in the Anglosphere. Furtive shibboleths can also come in the form of seemingly innocuous symbols. For example, the Ichthys has been used as a furtive shibboleth among Christians since the early church.
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The tremendous strain which the Star would have to suffer when the sophistries of recreants and the shibboleths of renegades were abroad will be obvious.
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Shibboleths have been used throughout history in many societies as passwords, simple ways of self-identification, signaling loyalty and affinity, maintaining traditional segregation, or protecting from real or perceived threats.
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Shibboleths have been used by different subcultures throughout the world at different times. Regional differences, level of expertise, and computer coding techniques are several forms that shibboleths have taken. The legend goes that before the Guldensporenslag (Battle of the Golden Spurs) in May 1302, the Flemish slaughtered every Frenchman they could find in the city of Bruges, an act known as the Brugse Metten.Devries, Kelly. Infantry Warfare in the Early 14th Century. N.p.: Boydell, 1996. Print.
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Below are listed various examples of words and phrases that have been identified as shibboleths, a word or custom whose variations in pronunciation or style can be used to differentiate members of ingroups from those of outgroups.
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Her senior thesis was entitled "Social Networks and Shibboleths: Gender Diversity and Stratification in Structures of Elite Corporate Leadership." Following her time at Harvard, she became a Fellow with the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences based in Cape Town, South Africa.
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The Government also dismantled one of the shibboleths of the Lang era, allowing Forest Coach Lines and Westbus to run direct services to the City, rather than just the nearest train station. In 1992, an inbound bus lane was installed on the Sydney Harbour Bridge to facilitate the additional services.
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A lot of the vocabulary known as typical to Bernese German comes from the Mattenenglisch, e.g. Gieu 'boy', Modi 'girl'. The best known shibboleths of Bernese German may be the words äuä 'no way' or 'probably', (j)ieu 'yes', geng (or ging, gäng) 'always'. Bernese typically say mängisch for the German manchmal (sometimes).
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Basil Laver FRCS MS (18 December 1894 – 28 December 1934), was an eminent British surgeon whose highly successful career was cut short through illness.Obituary in The Times, Mr. B.L. Laver, 31 December 1934, p 17c Laver's obituary in the British Medical Journal commented on his 'dynamic energy and capacity for work, his acute inquisitiveness of mind, and his absolute intolerance of shibboleths of medicine'.
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Edition Falter/Deuticke, Wien 1992, , p. 295. Other less hostile commentators saw this autobiographical work as a kind of literary penance. During the Hitler years she had included in a 1943 travel report a powerfully horrific description of a Jewish cemetery she had visited in Prague. In it she had employed National Socialist antisemitic shibboleths and stereo-types to condemn the city's Jewish community for the dire condition of the place.
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There are some houses of sadaat ( zanjani+bukhari+gillani ) after this more houses of [Ambalvi Arain people], Kashmiri people (Butt, Jutt, Bajwa, Khawaja and Dar), Shaikh (Khawajgan Narowali) Rajput clans, Sulehria clans; [Sandhu] Saadat 《Khokhars 》and Mughals tribes. The language of the people is Punjabi. The culture of the town dwellers is hotchpotch of different cultures the young generation is clad in western style but those who love to observe shibboleths mostly wear Shalwar Kameez.
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The phrase is seven measures long. The enigma begins with the opening theme of the first movement: built of two phrases of seven measures each, it defies the galante practice of carefully balanced four- and eight-measure phrases. It is almost as if Haydn was wagging his tongue at his contemporaries, violating accepted shibboleths of composition. "Haydn's compositional freedom seems often defiantly at odds with what textbooks have to say," writes Drabkin.
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The term shibboleth can be extended, as in the discipline of semiotics, to describe non-linguistic elements of culture such as diet, fashion and cultural values. Cultural touchstones and shared experience can also be shibboleths of a sort. For example, people about the same age who are from the same nation tend to have the same memories of popular songs, television shows, and events from their formative years. One- hit wonders prove particularly distinctive.
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Chye-Ching Huang & Nathaniel Frentz, "Myths and Realities About the Estate Tax," Aug. 29, 2013, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, Washington, D.C., at cbpp.org (PDF) Political use of "death tax" as a synonym for "estate tax" was encouraged by Jack Faris of the National Federation of Independent BusinessCapitol Hill Memo; In 2 Parties' War of Words, Shibboleths Emerge as Clear Winner, New York Times, April 27, 2001. during the Speakership of Newt Gingrich.
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Conversely, a lingua franca is used for the opposite effect, helping communicators to overcome unintelligibility, as are pidgins and creole languages. For example, the Chinook Jargon was a pidgin. Although technical jargon's primary purpose is to aid technical communication, not to exclude outsiders by serving as an argot, it can have both effects at once and can provide a technical ingroup with shibboleths. For example, medieval guilds could use this as one means of informal protectionism.
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The Mattenenglisch sociolect was the working class variety of the Bernese German dialect. It had a characteristic vocabulary that was partly influenced by varieties such as Rotwelsch, Jenisch or Yiddish, because people wanted to communicate in a way the police would not understand. While most Mattenenglisch words have fallen out of use, some have spread into common Bernese German usage, thus becoming shibboleths of Bernese German, for instance the words jiu 'yes', Modi 'girl' or Gieu 'boy'.
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Yet, to others, its moral value resides in its very questioning of commonly accepted shibboleths about marriage and the family: "People who were originally put off by The Homecoming may now find it too close to home. It's a bit like Picasso's shockingly severe painting of Gertrude Stein from 1906, the one he predicted in time would resemble its subject. We may not have thought we saw ourselves in The Homecoming four decades ago. Now it feels like a mirror", posited critic Ben Brantley.
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As an activist-filmmaker, he has been a propagandist for the values of the ultra-liberal state and its shibboleths throughout his career."Ostracizing Israel by George Jonas, National Post, September 5, 2009. Robert Lantos, a Canadian film producer, sharply criticized Greyson, stating that "the (Toronto) festival has been free from the pressure of those whose fascist agenda is to impose their views on others, stifle the voices they don't like and interfere with people's right to see whatever they wish and make up their own minds. Until now.
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Powell's journalism led a change in the writing of cinema criticism. To quote from the British Film Institute: "... she was open to new directions in cinema and was not constrained by the middle class shibboleths of "good taste", unlike her rival C. A. Lejeune, film critic for The Observer from 1928 to 1960." She remained film critic at The Sunday Times until 1979 – a compilation of her reviews was published in 1989 as The Golden Screen – but from 1976 she also began writing about films on television, which she continued to do until the end of her life.
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Shibboleths, that is, phrases in a language that are difficult for someone who is not a native speaker of that language to say might be regarded as a type of tongue-twist. An example is Georgian baq'aq'i ts'q'alshi q'iq'inebs ("a frog croaks in the water"), in which q' is a uvular ejective. Another example, the Czech and Slovak strč prst skrz krk ("stick a finger through the throat") is difficult for a non-native speaker due to the absence of vowels, although syllabic r is a common sound in Czech, Slovak and some other Slavic languages.
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The dialect of Alexandria (West Delta) is noted for certain shibboleths separating its speech from that of Cairo (South Delta). The ones that are most frequently noted in popular discourse are the use of the word falafel as opposed to ṭa`meyya for the fava-bean fritters common across the country and the pronunciation of the word for the Egyptian pound as , rather than the Cairene (closer to the pronunciation of the origin of the term, the British guinea). The speech of the older Alexandrian families is also noted for use of the first-person plural even when they speak in the singular.
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Lowth's grammar is the source of many of the prescriptive shibboleths that are studied in schools and was the first of a long line of usage commentators to judge the language in addition to describing it. For example, the following footnote from his grammar is, in turn, descriptive and prescriptive: "Whose is by some authors made the Possessive Case of which, and applied to things as well as persons; I think, improperly." Lowth's method included criticising "false syntax"; his examples of false syntax were culled from Shakespeare, the King James Bible, John Donne, John Milton, Jonathan Swift, Alexander Pope, and other famous writers. A number of his judgments were reinforced by analogies to Latin grammar, though it was his stated principle that such an analogy should not in itself be the basis for English prescriptions.
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He attacked many of the shibboleths of the nationalist school, such as the idealisation of the convicts, bushrangers and pioneers. The rewriting of Australian history, he said, "will not come from the radicals of this generation because they are tethered to an erstwhile great but now excessively rigid creed".Holt, A Short History, 95 There were a number of similar comments in his annotation of the Select Documents. The diggers of Eureka, for example, were not revolutionaries, but aspiring capitalists; the dominant creed of the 1890s was not socialism, but fear of Asian immigration.Holt, A Short History, 96 Although these views were seen as conservative at the time, they were later taken up with greater force by the Marxist historian Humphrey McQueen in his 1970 book A New Britannia.
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Jessica Kiang of The Playlist stated the film was "wildly alive, yet it reminds us that no matter how modern we are, there are ancient songs our forebears knew whose melodies still rush in our blood". About the Wayuu people depicted here she wrote: "the Wayuu here are neither exploited innocents nor backward savages, but flawed humans indulging recognisable human instincts of greed and rapaciousness... You do not have to have Wayuu ancestry, or any connection to the region to understand the broader implications of this epic story of haunted druglords and ruthless power grabs that are partly predicated on traditional beliefs and shibboleths". Former United States President Barack Obama named Birds of Passage among his favorite films and television series of 2019. In his annual list of favorite films, which he released on Twitter on December 29, 2019.
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The same, Pinker argues in The Language Instinct (1994), applies to case, citing a famous phrase used by Bill Clinton and criticized by William Safire: "So just because [Al Gore and I] is an object that requires object case, it does not mean that [I] is an object that requires object case. By the logic of grammar, the pronoun is free to have any case it wants". Linguist Ben Yagoda, impressed by this argument, divides his thinking on the phrase's grammaticality in a pre-Pinker and a post-Pinker period, and Peter Brodie, in a special issue of The English Journal devoted to grammar and usage, is likewise persuaded: "he also reminds us that these rules are generally dictated by snobbery and conceived as mere shibboleths". While David D. Mulroy, in The War Against Grammar (2003), finds Pinker's argument not entirely persuasive, he says "these are matters on which reasonable people can disagree".
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Within the aftermath of the event, there was a common perception amongst groups of far-right Japanese that ethnic Koreans were poisoning wells, eventually setting off a killing rampage against Koreans, where Japanese would use the shibboleth of ba bi bu be bo (ばびぶべぼ) to distinguish ethnic Koreans from Japanese, as it was assumed that Koreans would be unable to pronounce the line correctly, instead as . All people who failed the test were killed, which caused many ethnic Chinese , also unable to correctly pronounce the shibboleth, to be indiscriminately killed in large numbers. Other shibboleths used were and "gagigugego" (がぎぐげご), where Japanese people pronounce initial g as and medial g as (such a distinction is dying out in recent years), whereas Koreans pronounce the two sounds as and respectively. Much of the anti-Korean sentiment present today however deal with contemporary attitudes. During the 2002 FIFA World Cup, Japanese and Korean supporters clashed with one another.
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" Walter White, executive director of the NAACP, reported his reaction to viewing a rough cut of the film: "One thing is certain–Hollywood can never go back to its old portrayal of colored people as witless menials or idiotic buffoons now that Home of the Brave and Lost Boundaries have been made ..." The Washington Post countered attempts on the part of some in the South to deny that the film represented an actual social phenomenon by calling it "real life drama" and "no novel" that presented "the stark truth, names, places and all". In The New York Times, critic Bosley Crowther said it had "extraordinary courage, understanding and dramatic power." Ferrer later said: "This was a very, very radical departure from any kind of fiction film anybody was making in the country. It was a picture which broke a tremendous number of shibboleths, and it established a new freedom in making films.
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When the Russian Revolution erupted a few years later and World War I drew to a close, a great many people initially thought it the beginning of a great "emancipation of humanity". Miss Molteno was no exception, and in 1919 wrote of her hopes for a future when: “…All distinctions of race, gender, religion; all the old shibboleths hitherto in use to keep down the masses, were to give way to wider, broader and deeper conceptions of humanity” Phillida Brooke-Simons: Apples of the sun. Vlaeberg: Fernwood Press, 1999. . She died in 1927 in southern England, and has been since been referred to as possibly “…one of the most influential women in South Africa during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.” and as “One of the most remarkable South African women of her generation.” Nevertheless, her values and causes were so unusually progressive for the era in which she lived, that it was to be decades before they became widely accepted (especially in South Africa), and her role in propagating them was largely forgotten.
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Until the 1970s, the Greek language distinguished between Dimotiki, the colloquial language which was used in everyday discussions and the extremely formal and archaic Katharevousa, which was used in more "educated" contexts, as in school, in court, in law texts etc. Extreme Katharevousa was, in fact, nearly pure Ancient Greek, and as such, nearly completely unintelligible to children and adults without higher education; however there was a linguistic spectrum, with so-called Simple Katharevousa quite close to Dimotiki, and the emerging urban standard of Dimotiki making more concessions to Katharevousa than its more radical form. The Greek language question, from the 1890s on, was a heated dispute on which language form was to be the official language of the state: unlike typical diglossic situations, the primacy of the H variant was disputed, and the choice of variant became politicized, with Dimotiki associated with the left wing and Katharevousa with the right; morphological choices could even end up used as political shibboleths. This dispute was eventually settled, and today the single language used in all texts is an educated variant of Dimotiki, which uses many expressions from Katharevousa.
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