| 单词 | shibboleth |
| 例句 | But let flesh touch with flesh, and watch the fall of all the eggshell shibboleth of caste and color too. Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z History is a cumulative record of success and failure, and the pretense that it can be something other than that is a peculiar shibboleth of historical writing over the last fifty years. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Henry Reid, engineer-in-charge of the Langley laboratory, crooned to his employees, the shibboleth a reminder of the importance of the airplane to the war’s outcome. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Her clothes were a kind of shibboleth to me; they signaled that she was not a gentile, and for a few hours I felt less alone. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z They mount an attack on various shibboleths and the "Hymn of Hymns," a kind of synthesis, concludes the sequence. Poem of the week: Hymn of Hymns by John Rodker 2013-04-29T16:24:03Z It’s a shibboleth that Steven Spielberg and George Lucas took hold of that new utopia of so-called movies for grownups and rendered it juvenile. The Brian De Palma Conundrum 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z This will be just another cheesy Hunt, with all the customary rules and rudenesses and shibboleths, a word we are pretty sure we are using incorrectly. Post Hunt 2016 has arrived! Come downtown Sunday. 2016-05-18T04:00:00Z More recently, this taboo has kept company with other stage shibboleths — don’t say “good luck,” don’t wear green, don’t give flowers, don’t whistle, don’t put mirrors onstage, always leave a light on. Break a Leg but Never Whistle: How Stage Superstitions Live On 2022-04-27T04:00:00Z The notion that the news media is a secularist cabal ignoring stories that challenge its shibboleths is wrongheaded. Religion’s media persecution complex 2013-04-23T22:01:00Z People are at liberty to think she’s not funny, of course, or to suggest that any particular Schumer assault on the great shibboleths of race and sex and gender is poorly calibrated. “Trainwreck”: Amy Schumer’s a comic genius, but this lumpy Judd Apatow rom-com doesn’t do her justice 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z Their critique of the canon is often caricatured and misunderstood, and Max may embody the shibboleths of his elders as much as he does the attitude of his peers. One Indelible Scene: the Master Class in Ambiguity in ‘Tár’ 2023-01-02T05:00:00Z It was the pronunciation of "shibboleth", which in the Bible decided whether Ephraimites were allowed to live or die. Rewind TV: Our Drugs War; Faith School Menace?; The Great British Bake Off 2010-08-21T23:06:00Z Mr. Diouf’s organization has evolved since 1970 from a postcolonial conglomerate of mostly African states preserving the linguistic vestiges of French imperialism into a global entity whose shibboleth is cultural diversity. Abroad: In Age of Globalism, Pardon My French 2010-04-21T22:03:00Z There are still those would insist on the last answer, which has been a critical shibboleth for a very long time. Is Woody Allen a Great Filmmaker? Discuss 2018-02-21T05:00:00Z Is there still a place for "the liberal shibboleths like freedom of expression" in the post-apartheid struggle? Clash of the Booker titans 2013-05-23T13:57:00Z He delighted in puncturing trendy shibboleths and was known among his peers as a “dark horse of literature.” The Widow of a Nobel-Winning Chinese Dissident Rebuilds Her Career as an Artist 2019-04-30T04:00:00Z “He took the shibboleths of liberalism and exposed them as what he felt they were. He took liberals and progressives down a peg or two, or 10 pegs or two.” Robert Sherrill, self-described ‘independent radical’ journalist, dies He also does not believe the shibboleth that the alcohol content of a wine is not important if the wine is balanced. Inglenook Focuses on the Long Term to Regain Its Glory 2016-04-14T04:00:00Z I wonder whether, in some larger sense, these books reflect discomfort with current liberal-left shibboleths regarding “the patriarchy.” Heroines of Self-Hate 2021-02-27T05:00:00Z Is this another Victorian shibboleth under attack – the sewage system? Poem of the week: Hymn of Hymns by John Rodker 2013-04-29T16:24:03Z A sensation when it was first produced in Europe, it established the playwright, somewhat misleadingly, as a proto-feminist and a smasher of social shibboleths. | 'A Doll's House': A Nora Who Could Text All Her Discontents 2011-07-25T22:00:10Z There is a class of facts — it would be more accurate to call them myths or shibboleths — that everybody knows and nobody entirely believes. Are the Movies Liberal? 2022-06-02T04:00:00Z New shibboleths arose, phrases like “lived experience” and “power imbalance,” to adjudicate who had the right to what pictures, what materials, what forms, what words. How Hokusai’s Art Crashed Over the Modern World 2023-06-22T04:00:00Z One of the shibboleths of the increasingly fascist American right is a quote commonly attributed to the decade-dead Andrew Breitbart: "Politics is downstream from culture." The right loves to say "politics is downstream from culture," but on the right the opposite is true 2022-09-23T04:00:00Z Stark weaves Western art history, its profundities and shibboleths, into much of her work, and her differences with the past help clarify the present. 'UH-OH: Frances Stark, 1991-2015' at Hammer Museum is an enthralling midcareer survey 2015-11-11T05:00:00Z A land where consultants share shibboleth with bank robbers: No fingerprints, please. ‘You didn’t hear this from me, but . . . ’: Why South Carolina primary politics are so dirty. 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z Such balance may be a journalistic shibboleth; it is, in any case, a cinematic irrelevance. ‘Citizenfour,’ a Documentary About Edward J. Snowden 2014-10-23T04:00:00Z Some old shibboleths like white wine with fish are more like useful guidelines that are anything but ironclad. How to Pair Food and Wine 2022-05-19T04:00:00Z Throughout his career, Johnson has tended to get on with a certain type of woman; robust, not overly politically correct, dismissive of liberal shibboleths. Does Boris Johnson’s government have a women problem? 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z “The truth is that I found success by stumbling off alone in a direction most people thought was a dead end, breaking all the 1990s shibboleths about children’s books in the process.” Some Dos and Don’ts From Famous Writers 2019-01-11T05:00:00Z Where audiences converge in a worldwide culture of “sharing,” and diversity and connectedness join equality and freedom as the shibboleths of Western liberalism. How Modernity Came to Europe 2019-10-28T04:00:00Z TV critics quickly turned “peak TV” into a hashtag and a sort of shibboleth, as well as a valid excuse for their inability to write about it all. Too many shows? FX’s John Landgraf still thinks ‘peak TV’ is headed for a correction 2016-01-17T05:00:00Z He shows how tech-world shibboleths like “dropping out,” “disruption,” “genius” and “failure” help shore up an industry built on privilege, machismo and even cruelty. ‘What Tech Calls Thinking’ Might Really Be Something Else 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z It ignores old tropes of “men’s wear” and “women’s wear,” treating them as shibboleths from another time; it takes the totems of aspiration and muddies them up with glee. What Is ‘American Fashion’ Now? 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z He subscribes to every shibboleth of Washington conventional wisdom and shows fealty to all the proper institutions. Hustler’s denigrating S.E. Cupp “satire” 2012-05-24T20:30:00Z The personal, as the old shibboleth goes, is political. Elisabeth Moss, Carey Mulligan share a sensibility on separate stages 2015-04-15T04:00:00Z But with the children taught this stuff, they are by about 10, 12 max, woeful concretenesses and shibboleths. Rewind TV: Our Drugs War; Faith School Menace?; The Great British Bake Off 2010-08-21T23:06:00Z 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. ‘Locking Up Our Own,’ What Led to Mass Incarceration of Black Men 2017-04-11T04:00:00Z Like Billy Crystal’s in “Rabbit Test,” Lil Nas X’s prosthetic belly is just a costume, but this time it’s worn by a queer pop star rapaciously churning cultural shibboleths into internet chum. Pregnant Men Were a Movie Punchline. Now They’re Horror Villains. 2022-08-05T04:00:00Z “Giving up giving it up” becomes the shibboleth of Lysistrata and the girlfriends of the other players. | 'Lysistrata Jones': ?Lysistrata Jones? at Walter Kerr Theater - Review 2011-12-15T03:05:04Z To the delighted surprise of at least one observer, a considerable number of us apparently used the time in confinement to rethink some shibboleths about who gets to wear what. The Boys in Their Summer Dresses 2021-06-09T04:00:00Z Pop artists used commercial media imagery to dismantle deeply entrenched shibboleths of Modern art culture. 'Someday Is Now' reflects influence of the '60s and Warhol on artist Sister Corita 2015-06-24T04:00:00Z But she flees old-time shibboleths; hers is its own kind of otherworldly. Pop and Jazz Fall Preview: 66 Albums, Shows and Festivals 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z They didn’t expose the shibboleths of dress or kick over any sacred cows. Raf Simons and Miuccia Prada Make Civil Discourse Look Lovely 2020-09-24T04:00:00Z Its invocation of shibboleths such as “medical freedom” and “health freedom” — coded justifications for opposition to vaccine mandates — led to its getting “picked up by the Republican Tea Party in Texas,” Hotez says. Column: Scientists are paying a huge personal price in the lonely fight against anti-vaxxers 2023-10-20T04:00:00Z Letterboxd, the social network for recommending and reviewing movies, has become a kind of shibboleth for film nerds over the past decade. Letterboxd, Online Haven for Film Nerds, Gets a New Owner 2023-09-29T04:00:00Z Although it didn’t set out to do so, the marvelous show reveals how Ruscha’s alienation from organized religion proved to be useful for his larger, culturally striking project: deconstructing art myths and shibboleths. Review: In his rapturous MoMA retrospective, L.A. artist Ed Ruscha gives New York School art a witty blow 2023-09-20T04:00:00Z As I’ve been writing for nearly a year, the idea that wage increases drive inflation has been an enduring shibboleth among economists. Column: Wage growth doesn't drive inflation. So why is the Fed out to crush workers? 2023-06-13T04:00:00Z That’s because, contrary to the shibboleth, the good isn’t the enemy of the great—it’s the loam of the great. A Video Discussion of the Best Movies of the Year So Far 2023-06-09T04:00:00Z “It’s not the main reason. But everything has become so politicized that the economic debate is carried out through political shibboleths.” Brexit Quietly Turns Three 2023-01-31T05:00:00Z Those who laugh are immediately outsiders to Trump world, where a taste for the tawdry is established as a fundamental shibboleth of loyalty and belonging. Perspective | Trump NFTs are not art. Unless you consider grifting an art form. 2022-12-17T05:00:00Z Opposition to continuing the 2021 Child Tax Credit is generally based on ancient conservative shibboleths and misconceptions about poverty. Column: The Child Tax Credit is our greatest antipoverty program. Why is Congress letting it wither? 2022-12-05T05:00:00Z Nevertheless, Romney again teed up the traditional, and discreditable, Republican shibboleth of attacking Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid as “entitlements” that have been causing inflation. Column: 'Moderates' like Mitt Romney are threatening Social Security. Democrats don't have to let them. 2022-11-16T05:00:00Z Like his earlier books, “Set the Night on Fire” approached the city through something of a contrarian’s lens, puncturing old beliefs and shibboleths, particularly about the nature of 1960s activism on the West Coast. The 3 essential Mike Davis books that explain L.A. 2022-10-26T04:00:00Z The American right just hated Obamacare, even more than the ancient shibboleths of "welfare" and "affirmative action." Democrats won the biggest policy battle of our time — why doesn't it feel that way? 2022-10-05T04:00:00Z Thus, it became a shibboleth: a means of sorting friend from foe. Review | Women artists tell an ugly truth: The war within may never be over 2022-08-04T04:00:00Z Republicans and conservatives are fond of the shibboleth that “America is a republic, not a democracy.” Column: America is in the grip of a right-wing minority 2022-06-27T04:00:00Z Tarana Burke coined the phrase “me too” in 2006 as a sort of shibboleth for women who had survived abuse, before it became a viral hashtag more than a decade later. Depp-Heard verdict will have chilling impact on #MeToo, advocates fear 2022-06-02T04:00:00Z Anyone who has ever been to deep Appalachia knows that there is more than a grain of truth to the shibboleth that the only things there are coal and disability. Opinion | How to get West Virginia off coal 2022-05-30T04:00:00Z I think there has been more than enough evidence of widespread voter ignorance in recent years to explode that shibboleth. The primitive mind of the electorate 2022-04-26T04:00:00Z Precisely because it’s off-limits to outsiders, it can function as a shibboleth among certain Black speakers, who use it more or less interchangeably with “guy” or “brother.” Can I Utter a Racial Slur in My Classroom? 2022-04-05T04:00:00Z Among those was a low-key, playful, healthy distance maintained from the hothouse art world back east, with its moneyed, myopic obsessions, self-importance and shibboleths. Wayne Thiebaud, Playful Painter of the Everyday, Dies at 101 2021-12-26T05:00:00Z Even with so much evidence to the contrary, some media commentators cling to the creaky shibboleth that the “wisdom of the American people” is expressed in every election. America, the ungovernable? 2021-11-26T05:00:00Z The show is now a shibboleth of public discourse here, a byword among ultra-conservatives who praise it as a patriotic exposé and reformists who denounce it as slanderous propaganda. To sink nuclear talks with the U.S., Iran's hard-liners use a novel weapon: A hit TV show 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z And those draconian social “rules” are why the skirt has become a popular shibboleth in our divided times. Don’t block your blessings, cis straight men. Embrace the beauty of skirts 2021-10-13T04:00:00Z He recently crusaded against the fax machines that are still used in government offices, making waves by taking on one of the shibboleths of the bureaucracy. Japan’s Most Popular Candidate for Prime Minister Is Far From a Shoo-In 2021-09-28T04:00:00Z Rather, they’re shibboleths — code words, phrases and images aimed at touching a specific community — in this case, the GOP’s Trumpian right wing. Column: DeSantis doubles down on anti-science campaign as COVID explodes in Florida 2021-07-20T04:00:00Z A shibboleth of book criticism: Never read the advance reviews of a book you’ve been assigned to write about. Review: Real housewives of diplomacy: A Namibia embassy novel turns an eye toward injustice 2021-07-15T04:00:00Z Not that we should delude ourselves about our prospects for shifting the other person’s shibboleths. Should I Hang Out With Someone Whose Political Views I Hate? 2021-06-22T04:00:00Z “We can’t be wedded to old doctrines and shibboleths,” Mr. Young said in an interview. Senate Poised to Pass Huge Industrial Policy Bill to Counter China 2021-06-07T04:00:00Z All these claims are familiar shibboleths long bandied about in progressive salons. Review | America and Iran, from fascination to antagonism 2021-02-24T05:00:00Z DeSantis’ entire political approach is to wrap himself in reactionary shibboleths. Column: DeSantis doubles down on anti-science campaign as COVID explodes in Florida 2021-07-20T04:00:00Z A shibboleth that potent doesn’t just disappear with a departmental memo. Column: The California roots of the fight over the term 'illegal alien' 2021-02-19T05:00:00Z These views, as with any tribal shibboleths, will often matter to him because they are signs of his membership. Should I Hang Out With Someone Whose Political Views I Hate? 2021-06-22T04:00:00Z “You can’t wave privacy around like some kind of shibboleth that automatically throws things under seal,” he said. Fight over release of details in expert report alleging police misconduct, racism continues in Maryland 2021-01-29T05:00:00Z By identifying masks and social distancing as liberal shibboleths, he created the us-vs-them battlefield that political poseurs need. Column: I never 'agree to disagree' — I just tell you when you're wrong 2020-12-22T05:00:00Z And whatever happened to Republican shibboleths such as, “my word is my bond,” or “the government shouldn’t pick winners and losers,” or “deficit spending is a curse,” or even, “Russian dictators are bad for America”? Frayed but not hopeless: America can heal with election reform and a return to integrity 2020-11-06T05:00:00Z The shibboleths of identity politics – race/gender/class – constantly evoked in the woke wars, seem to me to be entirely inadequate for how we live now. Are you a complete covidiot? It's what the government wants of all of us | Suzanne Moore 2020-09-07T04:00:00Z The think tank’s scholars are not as social-democratic as I’d wish them to be, but they have broken decisively with conservative shibboleths. Opinion | Why progressives should welcome anti-Trump Republicans 2020-07-24T04:00:00Z For one thing, shibboleths about individual liberty will continue to dampen enthusiasm for increased public investment. Spend More on Society and Get More for Yourself 2020-07-16T04:00:00Z While she said she hoped last week’s events would finally change those shibboleths, she was troubled that the protesters, who pulled down the statue without interference from the police, were mostly white. In an English City, an Early Benefactor Is Now ‘a Toxic Brand’ 2020-06-14T04:00:00Z His speech harked back to an older liberalism, one that was committed to racial equality but not to the shibboleths of wokeness.” Violence abated 2020-06-03T04:00:00Z Imagine that Biden had said something as radically transgressive of progressive beliefs as Trump did about the conservative shibboleth of decentralized authority and the 10th Amendment. Incumbency advantages grow in era of weak parties 2020-04-14T04:00:00Z The biggest chicken of all that's now roosting atop the White House, and atop the entire Republican Party for that matter, is the Reagan shibboleth that "government isn't the solution, it's the problem." We need to quarantine Donald Trump: He's confused, ignorant and afraid 2020-03-14T04:00:00Z Strawson takes aim at two contemporary shibboleths, which relate equally to psychology and literature. I created a character called Will then set him running | Will Self 2019-12-13T05:00:00Z Many American evangelicals would say they believe in the bodily resurrection of Jesus because that’s become a shibboleth of right-wing Christianity. ‘A wake-up call:’ British theologian N.T. Wright on the prosperity gospel, climate change and Advent 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z So was his “isolationism” and hostility to the shibboleths of free trade and national security. Impeachment frenzy in Washington sets Trump off against the CIA 2019-10-04T04:00:00Z The court elevated state action into a shibboleth, severely restricting federal protection of rights against the assaults of violent individuals and mobs. Opinion | The Lost Promise of Reconstruction 2019-09-07T04:00:00Z These are all shibboleths of the liberal international order, and they are being challenged daily by the Trump administration. Boris Johnson prepares for Biarritz balancing act with Donald Trump 2019-08-24T04:00:00Z That changed after China embarked on economic reforms four decades ago while the North stuck to orthodox communism’s shibboleths of state ownership and central planning, even as its economy tanked and starvation grew. Xi’s NKorea visit a chance to strengthen ties, influence US 2019-06-19T04:00:00Z This is one of the hoariest shibboleths of modern American politics: feckless Democrats tax and spend; sober Republicans stand for balanced budgets. Can we stop pretending now? 2019-04-13T04:00:00Z 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. New York City Women in the House (of Representatives) 2019-04-03T04:00:00Z However, conflict arises when the shibboleth’s purpose is to exclude, rather than to include. Opinion | Readers critique The Post: D.C. United, El Salvador and truth in fiction 2019-03-29T04:00:00Z As for immigration, Trump’s wall is nothing but “a political shibboleth – it’s not real”. Republican Bill Weld on challenging Trump: ‘It’s going to be a lot of fun' 2019-03-23T04:00:00Z In “Why ‘Green Book’ shouldn’t have people seeing red,” she used the words “coruscatingly,” “opprobrium” and “shibboleth.” Opinion | Readers critique The Post: India’s socialist past, R.I.P. Bryce and a bad malaprop 2019-03-15T04:00:00Z Ocasio-Cortez, in fact, studied economics in college, while many Republicans who profess to understand the subject display almost complete ignorance of the entire subject beyond a few right-wing shibboleths. Paul Krugman: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez exposes average congressional Republican as "dumb as a rock" 2019-01-17T05:00:00Z But voters’ attachment to labels like “conservative” and “liberal” as shibboleths intensifies. Tammany Hall, U.S.A. 2019-01-09T05:00:00Z A shibboleth is a catchword or slogan identifying a particular group. Opinion | Readers critique The Post: D.C. United, El Salvador and truth in fiction 2019-03-29T04:00:00Z A good New Year’s resolution therefore would be constructing new policies that solve this problem in a viable, long-lasting way, even if it means discarding increasingly outdated shibboleths. Time for a real industrial policy 2019-01-06T05:00:00Z For decades, moral clarity functioned as a shibboleth, an efficient means of discovering, then assailing, anyone too weak-willed to wage war against America’s ideological foes or incipient spiritual collapse. What Could Be Wrong With a Little ‘Moral Clarity’? 2019-01-02T05:00:00Z This likely has much to do with self-help shibboleths in American culture, a belief we personally can surmount greater economic and social forces. Opinion | Age discrimination is more common than you think. Why aren’t we doing anything about it? 2019-01-03T05:00:00Z America’s unity shibboleth is marred by a fixation on ruling class pageantry and discourse. America must get over its unity fetish – we're not all in this together | Greg Shupak 2018-12-22T05:00:00Z There’s something of a secret password element to this, a shibboleth that not only marks users of a certain age and experience but unites them. The latest bizarre Simpsons meme is about downloading songs on Limewire 2018-10-19T04:00:00Z Among current progressive shibboleths, he supported Medicare for all. Michael Avenatti says Democrats must 'fight fire with fire' as he eyes presidential run 2018-08-11T04:00:00Z Journalists such as Brendan O’Neill, editor of Spiked, and a cluster of conservative provocateurs occupying the pages of the Spectator, now specialise in dismantling the perceived shibboleths of the liberal left. The free speech panic: how the right concocted a crisis 2018-07-26T04:00:00Z Without explicit instructions, her kids have learned game-day routines are a shibboleth of fandom. A lucky oven mitt and a dog named Barry Trotz: Capitals fans have some weird superstitions 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z Now, in a beautiful reversal, it is the shibboleths of the conservative era that are shaking. Striking teachers burst neoliberals' fantasy in one amazing moment | Thomas Frank 2018-05-21T04:00:00Z Positions on issues like gun control are shibboleths of some of our tribes. Can I Make My Company Take a Stand on Guns? 2018-05-16T04:00:00Z He’d break the Republican Party from the shibboleths of the Reagan Era and create a new ideology mindful of the interests of the party’s working-class supporters. Opinion | America after Trump 2018-05-13T04:00:00Z Mr Gardiner has already apologised for describing the Good Friday Agreement as a "shibboleth" at the same event. Frontbencher rubbishes Labour Brexit test 2018-04-10T04:00:00Z 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. Opinion | Want to Know What Divides This Country? Come to Alabama 2017-09-30T04:00:00Z Depending on who you ask, it’s the most important theoretical innovation in feminist history; the cancer that’s killing the left; a critical tool in on-the-ground organising; or a totally meaningless liberal shibboleth. Intersectional-what? Feminism's problem with jargon is that any idiot can pick it up and have a go 2017-09-30T04:00:00Z Clearly, attacking fellow Republicans and their shibboleths was no bar to the party’s nomination. Is there a strategy to Donald Trump's attacks on Republican politicians? 2017-08-26T04:00:00Z Such responses served to remind practitioners of the taboos of economics: a gentle nudge to a young academic that such shibboleths might not sound so good before a tenure committee. How economics became a religion | John Rapley 2017-07-11T04:00:00Z Such shibboleths as marriage until death and a job for life were quickly weakened. Imagine there’s no Sgt Pepper. It’s all too easy in the era of Trump and May | John Harris 2017-04-29T04:00:00Z Adams was in command but McGuinness played a crucial role, and if a nerve was touched he was the one who would spiral into an emotional diatribe in defence of some Republican shibboleth. After Martin McGuinness, peace in Ireland will face renewed pressure | Jonathan Powell 2017-03-21T04:00:00Z It is a shibboleth of constitutional democracy that no man is above the law. Lying got Michael Flynn fired. But that's what the Trump White House does best | Lawrence Douglas 2017-02-15T05:00:00Z I spent my entire career working on buildings, and I've never understood why owning one is such a shibboleth. The Home Buying Decision 2017-01-06T05:00:00Z 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. In Search of Post-Brexit England, and Swans 2017-01-05T05:00:00Z He also ran a campaign that challenged longstanding shibboleths of American diplomacy. Looking for Clues to Donald Trump’s Ambassador Picks 2016-12-21T05:00:00Z Another shibboleth that went down with the Hillary Titanic is the myth of the moderate swing voter, the sensible suburbanite who stands somewhere between the two parties and whose views determine all elections. How the Democrats could win again, if they wanted | Thomas Frank 2016-11-29T05:00:00Z America Magazine, published by the Catholic Jesuit order, has already begun reporting on moves to resist immigration raids, and regularly features opinion contrasting the teachings of Pope Francis with the shibboleths of American conservatism. So you want to get out of your bubble: try reading these conservative websites 2016-11-22T05:00:00Z Each succeeding election, local or national, in sections of the South and Midwest called to mind the old shibboleths about states' rights, an oppressive federal government, and the decline of religion based "family values." For Donald Trump, Lessons in Grace 2016-10-17T04:00:00Z But centrist opinion makers and policymakers should take these arguments seriously and re-examine old shibboleths about the ineffectiveness of short-term fiscal stimulus and the limits that debt imposes on stimulus policy. Fighting the Next Recession 2016-10-07T04:00:00Z They are on the “wrong side of history,” to invoke an Obama shibboleth. The Backlash That Became Brexit 2016-06-27T04:00:00Z Coming out in Oklahoma is a conversion: its attendant testimony, catechisms, and shibboleths have weight, gravitas. Gay, closeted and buried in history: my uncle's life was erased. Mine won't be 2016-06-13T04:00:00Z “Efficiency” began its life as a Progressive Era shibboleth. LeBron James Versus the New Basketball Gods 2016-06-06T04:00:00Z Nixon had created a cultural shibboleth: the silent majority, the conservative masses, appalled at the cultural and political advances of the 1960s, ready to reel them back in. Trump/Nixon: will 2016 make us witnesses to another revolution? 2016-06-05T04:00:00Z The old shibboleth, popular with the nuclear industry, that such “reactor-grade” plutonium is unsuitable for weapons, is essentially irrelevant for a technologically advanced country. Japan and South Korea May Soon Go Nuclear 2016-05-08T04:00:00Z His persona in the movie will delight some for its puncturing of art-world shibboleths and repel others who wonder what exactly it is he does. Tribeca: An "art terrorist's" tangle with U.S. Embassy officials 2016-04-13T04:00:00Z Even suggesting that Israel might have to give anything up in the name of peace involves challenging conservative shibboleths. Don’t deal with it 2016-03-23T04:00:00Z He thus acquired another title — “originalist” — and used his considerable verbal gifts against liberal shibboleths in one tartly worded opinion after another. Antonin Scalia’s remarkable legacy 2016-02-14T05:00:00Z Now he turned bitterly against the shibboleths of the left and began to tell himself a comforting story: that the brutal response to “Making It” was political. Why Leftists Go Right 2016-02-22T05:00:00Z 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. He was 89. Forrest McDonald, Historian Who Punctured Liberal Notions, Dies at 89 2016-01-22T05:00:00Z It is a welcome respite from the long concatenation of shibboleths that engorge this frothy vestibule of a world. Sean Penn meets God 2016-01-13T05:00:00Z Someone yelled that “racism is prejudice with power,” a shibboleth of the new New Left. When the College Madness Came to My Campus 2015-11-17T05:00:00Z Trump piled on, telling CNN that Rubio “wants amnesty” – a conservative shibboleth referring to legal status for undocumented migrants – because he and his parents are Hispanic. A 'child molester', 'stupid' voters and ... Mitt? Welcome to the election's silly season 2015-11-14T05:00:00Z Mr Xi’s grand gesture suggests again that he is the strongest leader in China since Deng, able to shun decades-old shibboleths without fear of opposition. The emperor’s descendants 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z But apart from a few cosmetic updates, today’s Labour party still essentially clings to the same old shibboleths. Marxism Today: the forgotten visionaries whose ideas could save Labour | John Harris 2015-09-29T04:00:00Z It would, to be sure, be a saintly liberal who didn’t feel a little schadenfreude on hearing the Pope contradict certain shibboleths of the self-described religious right. The Pope and the Labels of Liberalism 2015-09-25T04:00:00Z Pretentious shibboleths such as these, expressed in our egalitarian age, are an excellent way to lose one’s audience. The Suicide of the Liberal Arts 2015-08-07T04:00:00Z The shibboleth that “state rights” caused secession is a suit of clothes desperately lacking an emperor. The Right Way to Remember the Confederacy 2015-07-10T04:00:00Z Other Bush backers described it as a nostalgic shibboleth and a reminder of what they see as his lack of airs — just Jeb. On the eve of a presidential run, Jeb Bush becomes just ‘Jeb!’ 2015-06-14T04:00:00Z Taking four long, painful days spouting shibboleths and fighting family ghosts to reluctantly, resentfully answer the simplest of questions gave America the clearest possible picture of why Jeb Bush would be a disaster as president. Step inside the GOP clown car! Listening in as Scott Walker, Mike Huckabee, Ted Cruz and others send dog-whistles to the right-wing base 2015-06-06T04:00:00Z Others would likely recommend she endorse a financial transaction tax or some other policy shibboleth to prove her recent gestures in the direction of criticizing Wall Street are more than just talk. Corporate centrists declare war on Warren Democrats: Why Hillary Clinton must spurn this disastrous neoliberalism 2015-05-04T04:00:00Z When the nation’s largest private employer decided to pay workers at least $9 an hour, the Nobel Prize-winning economist contends, Walmart helped expose a tired conservative shibboleth for the bunk that it is. Walmart’s crucial lesson: Paul Krugman on what the retailer’s wage hike really means 2015-03-02T05:00:00Z It is after he genuflects to the shibboleth, though, that Vinik really goes off the rails: Rand Paul Draws Liberal Fire As The Left Discovers Its Inner Love Of The Fed, Part One 2015-02-16T05:00:00Z The real problem here is that the NHS is one of the great shibboleths of British politics. No One, Not Even Nigel Farage Or Ukip, Is Advocating Replacing The NHS With The US Health Care System 2015-01-20T05:00:00Z It is an even bigger mistake to question the shibboleths of the global elite. The network effect 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z "We are Anonymous" is the shibboleth that announces communiques from the Internet hacker collective Anonymous. 'Je suis Charlie' and the people who are not Charlie 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z Some are Republican shibboleths; some are Democratic ones. Hillary Clinton and Jeb Bush Should Run Like They're Not Afraid to Lose 2015-01-05T05:00:00Z A shibboleth of mainstream economists, repeated recently in The National Review, of all places, is that countries recovered from the Great Depression in the order that they abandoned the gold standard. The Eichengreen Fallacy Misleads Some "Market Monetarists," Part Two 2014-11-04T05:00:00Z Indeed, comparing the hapless Carter to whoever currently leads the Democratic Party remains a powerful shibboleth for American conservatives, and in 2011 and 2012 Republicans indulged in this favorite simile without hesitation. Thomas Frank: “We are such losers” 2014-10-26T04:00:00Z The last market crash proved that notion to be a shibboleth. What Your Investment Portfolio Is Likely Lacking 2014-09-05T04:00:00Z To fight that looming fear, Silicon Valley seeks refuge in its shibboleth, innovation. Tech World's Challenge: Staying New 2014-07-18T04:00:00Z For both camps, free market shibboleths are marvelously reassuring until that self-same free market actually disrupts one’s security and sense of well-being. The Uber Fracas: Luddite Regulators Target Innovation 2014-06-17T04:00:00Z It’s become a shibboleth of contemporary architectural discourse to lisp this play upon Adolf Loos: “form follows finance”. London’s high-rise future: thrusting, exhilarating, yet strangely insubstantial 2014-06-09T04:00:00Z But whenever some poor scientist somewhere attacks a cherished green shibboleth, hordes of vicious and bitter green activists hurl angry accusations about the corruption of the scientific process by corporate interests. The Weekly Oil & Gas Follies 2014-06-08T04:00:00Z In the Spectator, Rod Liddle attributes Ukip's recent success to voters' "toxic loathing of the absolutist mores and shibboleths of the liberal London elite". Enough of this anti-London bile. It will achieve nothing but harm 2014-05-31T04:00:00Z Jindal mocked the “liberal shibboleth of ‘universal coverage,’” saying his plan is more focused on “containing the rising tide of health costs.” Jindal Floats Obamacare Replacement Plan With Eye on 2016 2014-04-02T13:00:51Z I examined some of the shibboleths against a higher minimum wage back in December, and I won’t repeat the whole case. Today's Economist: The Significance of the Minimum Wage for Women and Families 2014-03-07T05:01:03Z Another shibboleth of the naysayers of a minimum wage increase is that most minimum wage workers are teenagers. Today's Economist: Raising the Minimum Wage: Old Shibboleths, New Evidence 2013-12-13T05:01:11Z Everyone talked about wanting to make “clean movies” or “movies I wouldn’t be afraid to take my mother to,” but these phrases were shibboleths, loaded and tough to pin down. When Hollywood Wants Good, Clean Fun, It Goes to Mormon Country 2013-05-23T11:01:10Z In other words: why will no one vote for my right-wing shibboleths? Fiscal cliff: Obama keeps up pressure as polls support tax increases - live 2012-12-06T16:12:39Z He even invokes the shibboleth of “clean coal,” development of which, in any event, has been stalled by the influx of cheap natural gas. Antiscience Beliefs Jeopardize U.S. Democracy 2012-10-17T14:45:06.337Z While we’re dismissing shibboleths, the Apollo Program analogies are equally silly. The Solyndrafication of Healthcare Technology 2012-07-01T03:28:01Z Sternberg’s argument falls prey to two shibboleths about assessment in higher education. Why assessment is good for colleges: A rebuttal 2012-06-04T15:34:00Z The Latin language was thus long the language of scholars, and instruction in Latin the road to a liberal education—a shibboleth still employed, though long inappropriate. Popular scientific lectures 2012-04-24T02:00:17.273Z There would be women of his set, women who spoke the social shibboleths he knew. The Tree of Knowledge A Novel 2012-04-05T02:00:35.603Z The mob, not the individual, is his shibboleth. Unicorns 2012-03-14T02:00:26.677Z They had nothing to do with either profit or serving shareholders, those twin shibboleths of capitalist motivation. Who Are the Social Entrepreneurs? 2012-02-21T20:29:49Z From Shakespeare down they have one and all run afoul of the critics whose special province seems to be to set up literary shibboleths which every genius is bent upon disregarding. Browning and His Century 2012-02-15T03:00:39.033Z "How much is there in it," was the shibboleth of their creed, learned in the school of "peanut" politics where they operated. Unfettered A Novel 2012-02-12T03:00:15.143Z In that field Hilda and Jac had laid out tea, and the whole party had enjoyed a warm discussion on the subject of family shibboleths. The Tree of Knowledge A Novel 2012-04-05T02:00:35.603Z Servants, neighbors, passers-by, beggars, all prompt the children in these shibboleths of good manners, adorning the precept with example. Spanish Highways and Byways 2012-02-06T03:00:15.617Z There were men like that then, men who made by their mere being, something more than a shibboleth of the traditional dependability. A Woman of Genius 2012-01-18T03:00:09.517Z In keeping with the group’s shibboleths, the nominee must tap a member of a different party as a running mate, forming a “unity ticket” that will occupy the chasm in the political center. Americans Elect: Can a Well-Heeled Group of Insiders Create a Populist Third-Party Sensation? 2011-12-21T10:05:32Z Let us defy the "they-says," and as for those whose shibboleth is, "I have it upon good authority," we will give them the go-by. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 120, October, 1867. 2011-12-12T03:00:23.897Z Beware of party cries and shibboleths, the idols of the forum, as Plato called them, the prejudices which are set as snares for your feet. The Book of Life 2011-11-25T03:00:13.343Z On the contrary, he respected and supported all good men of whatever denomination, and required no one to renounce his shibboleth, or to subscribe to his creed. Memoir of John Howe Peyton in sketches by his contemporaries, together with some of his public and private letters, etc., also a sketch of Ann M. Peyton 2011-11-15T03:00:20.413Z “So the notion that we’ve gotten great discovery from the SEC is a bit of a shibboleth.” Rajaratnam Ordered in SEC Case to Pay Record $92.8 Million Fine 2011-11-09T05:25:16Z We want some authority to lean up against, and when we have got it we mouth its shibboleths with as little independent thought as children reciting the "twice-times" table. Leaves in the Wind 2011-10-28T02:00:25.937Z I have been fooling myself," he said, in a low tense voice, "Do you know what my shibboleth has been? Snowdrift A Story of the Land of the Strong Cold 2011-10-23T02:00:22.547Z Each group of men, each sect or class, have their precious dogmas, their shibboleths, their sacred words and stock phrases which set their whole beings aflame with fanaticism. The Book of Life 2011-11-25T03:00:13.343Z There was a crisis, there was necessity, there was trade and business advantage, social pressure, public demand, shibboleths—“a new Halifax” for example—but above all there was a multitude of models. Catastrophe and Social Change Based Upon a Sociological Study of the Halifax Disaster 2011-10-02T02:00:12.020Z Moreover, I wanted to disabuse myself of common shibboleths associated with fossil fuels and alternative fuels, so that I could articulate a clear, balanced, and attainable energy future. Education and the True Cost of Energy: A Dialogue with Tim Sutherland, CEO of Pace Global Energy Services 2011-09-27T10:33:05Z Above all, there is no more absurd fallacy than the shibboleth of the “melting-pot.” The Rising Tide of Color Against White World-Supremacy 2011-09-13T02:00:33.070Z Its words were the touchstone of wills, the shibboleth of souls. John Greenleaf Whittier His Life, Genius, and Writings 2011-08-26T02:00:22.667Z "Shall I ever cling to or love Herbert Spencer again?" thought Pauline, "when I see him made the shibboleth of such intellectual charlatans as this?" The Adventures of a Widow A Novel 2011-08-25T02:00:27.403Z Was it to become the shibboleth, which would betray the earlier associations he had so carefully concealed, perhaps forever crush his aspirations to obtain a portfolio in the government of H----? A Twofold Life 2011-07-21T02:00:21.433Z They said, respectfully, what each felt that the Parson wished them to say, repeating the old shibboleths and sesames which opened, possibly, purses but not hearts. The Soul of Susan Yellam 2011-06-16T02:00:19.090Z Never a party hack nor a slave to political shibboleths, always an individualist and a thinker, it was scarcely a fault if his good nature led him into an unfortunate attempt to reconcile the irreconcilable. The Viceroys of Ireland 2011-05-24T02:00:11.197Z A variant of the shibboleth is the culturally specific object that is incomprehensible to the foreigner. Love thy neighbour 2011-04-23T10:48:46Z Even yet, “good environments and good associations,” are the shibboleth of philanthropists. All the Days of My Life: An Autobiography The Red Leaves of a Human Heart 2011-03-31T02:00:16.763Z The worship of shibboleths cannot be kept up beyond a point where the majority grow tired of hocus-pocus politics and academical agnosticism. Psycho-Phone Messages 2011-03-27T02:00:12.363Z They certainly did not comprehend that they had given their opponents a shibboleth which would lead them to certain victory. The Middle Period 1817-1858 2011-03-14T03:01:05.737Z Acting, doubtless, on a hint from higher up, they included Hugh and me in a luncheon to some twenty of their cronies, whose shibboleths I didn't understand and among whom I was lost. The High Heart 2011-03-04T03:00:52.683Z An absorbing if unexpectedly one-sided match questioned a couple of shibboleths. Wolves feast on Blackpool's failings in Charlie Adam's absence 2011-02-28T07:00:12Z The Alexandrians, led by Cyril, stood for the doctrine of the perfect union of two complete natures in one person, and made θεοτόκος the shibboleth of orthodoxy. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" 2011-02-19T03:00:59.807Z “Tolerance,” like “religion,” “liberty,” etc., has become a shibboleth, and like these it has been run to death. The New Irish Constitution 2011-02-06T03:00:57.247Z And forget the old shibboleths about entering retirement with a portfolio made up of conservative fixed-income securities. Rethinking Stocks for the Long Haul 2011-02-03T06:10:22Z The old shibboleths, distrusted, were slinking one by one into their holes. The Promise of Air 2011-02-02T03:00:23.997Z The shibboleth to hide all the folly that men perpetrate. Saint Michael A Romance 2011-01-31T03:00:12.470Z Miss Breezy, who clung to certain old shibboleths with the pathetic persistence of a limpet, regarded a pack of cards as the instrument of the devil. The Rustle of Silk 2011-01-27T03:00:44.390Z Laudable pus became the shibboleth of surgery for centuries, imposed upon it by the genius of a great man. Education: How Old The New 2011-01-14T03:00:54.370Z During the recent fight over extending unemployment benefits, conservatives trotted out the shibboleth that says the program fosters sloth. Accounting agency: December best jobs month in a decade 2011-01-05T22:02:13Z Why had it turned from the ancient shibboleths? The Promise of Air 2011-02-02T03:00:23.997Z When he told me that I “hadn’t-ought-to” burn his ship, he pronounced the shibboleth which condemned her to the flames. Memoirs of Service Afloat, During the War Between the States 2011-01-04T03:01:01.887Z The pronunciation of s is a literal shibboleth between Bengal and Upper India. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Slice 7 "Bible" to "Bisectrix" 2010-12-20T17:12:05.780Z Education has become the fetish of the day and the shibboleth by which the Philistine is recognized from the chosen people of culture and refinement. Education: How Old The New 2011-01-14T03:00:54.370Z Unemployment Why the "lazy jobless" myth persists During the recent fight over extending unemployment benefits, conservatives trotted out the shibboleth that says the program fosters sloth. Why the "lazy jobless" myth persists 2010-12-17T12:01:00Z Labour, he says, is in danger of turning high marginal tax rates, a large state, and "snapshots of income inequality" into shibboleths. Nick Clegg: deficit offers chance to focus on role of the state 2010-11-22T22:00:00Z This analogy may seem, to those of us who grew up on the shibboleth of suburban soullessness, to disparage apps wholesale — but it shouldn’t. The Medium: The Aesthetics of the iPad 2010-07-03T03:30:00Z A Wikipedia entry on the concept of a shibboleth points out that that the same technique was apparently used much more recently. Dubai Police Chief Says He Knows an Israeli When He Sees One 2010-03-03T00:00:00Z Words like "seasonal," "local," and, best of all, "greenmarket" were shibboleths for every self-respecting cook from potato-peeler on up. 2010-02-05T19:45:00Z Another Western shibboleth about the future will thereby fall. 2010-01-16T05:03:00Z It will be perceived that, taking this view of the case, the British shibboleth is rather more of a shibboleth than has previously been supposed. A Cursory History of Swearing These belong entirely to capitalist parties with their bosses and their boodle and have no place in a party whose shibboleth is emancipation. Labor and Freedom The moral uplifting of the poor man was a mighty shibboleth in those days, and one which gave a power to these arguments. The Development of Rates of Postage An Historical and Analytical Study The White House knows nothing of artificial shibboleths. With the World's Great Travellers, Volume 2 This word is not used here in any restricted sense, and must be divorced from all association with the shibboleths of warring schools. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. VIII Not desiring, however, to turn the tables upon our aspersers, we propose to still further pursue the fortunes of the Britannic shibboleth from when we left it upon the lips of La Pucelle. A Cursory History of Swearing It is the grandest shibboleth that ever inspired men and women to action in this world. Labor and Freedom He stood apart, independent of the shibboleths of art and literature, with the grim and sometimes mocking attention of a spectator. Aubrey Beardsley In the present day the name had become a sort of shibboleth. East Angels My dear old lady is a Methodist class leader, and to 'meet for tickets' is a shibboleth beyond your untutored comprehension. Windyridge But curiously enough this figure of speech was originally as independent of the “shibboleth” as we have seen that was of the classic “damno.” A Cursory History of Swearing They also used the shibboleth of reform, but put the currency question before all others. The Greater Republic A History of the United States The word "Neeker-bo-ker," delicately comprehended, applied, and, what was more important still, limited, was one of Tante's most telling achievements—a shibboleth. Anne Party platforms, the support of an Abolitionist like Mr. Greeley, organic laws, are regarded as deceptive because the shibboleth of disloyalty and patriotism is "Republicanism." The Galaxy, April, 1877 Vol. XXIII.—April, 1877.—No. 4. The Hebrews, with ears a-tilt, caught this whisper, and so their word for an ear of wheat was "shibboleth." Seeds of Pine The sanctuary, it was thought, should have a shibboleth of its own. The London Pulpit I care but little for your abuse; but duty is duty, and so an' ye give me not the shibboleth, as old Noll's canters would say, you may e'en tramp back. Hansford: A Tale of Bacon's Rebellion But I had not needed to try the shibboleth since, though I had dropped into the café more than once, and drank my glass of tea,—without dropping a coin. The Red Symbol This essay avoids, obviously intentionally, the shibboleths of controversy. Naturalism And Religion Ever since the Anti-Benton faction had accomplished the great Senator's defeat, the shibboleth for admission into the higher circles of Missouri Democracy had been "Southern Rights." The Struggle for Missouri Before all things, it was necessary that the fallibility of the old system and of the antiquated shibboleths of instruction, which had hitherto exercised undisputed sway, be recognized. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 20. July, 1877. He was still under the spell of bodily fear, but his brain triumphed over physical stress, and bade him disregard these worn out shibboleths. The Silent Barrier A civil answer to what in other climes would be considered impertinent curiosity was the unmistakable shibboleth of the coequal fraternity. The Blue Goose The "Advanced Margin" is a favourite shibboleth of yours. The Kempton-Wace Letters The results seem to marshal themselves on the side of co-operation, for the purpose of demonstrating the truth of its shibboleth, that the injury or weakness of one, is the concern of all. Solaris Farm A Story of the Twentieth Century One of the favourite phrases and shibboleths of the Romantic School, which may still be heard in the Germany of to-day. Atta Troll An oath is the shibboleth of their sinister fellowship. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. XXII (of 25) Juvenilia and Other Papers The only meat we could find was pork, that shibboleth between Mohammedanism and Confucianism. Across Asia on a Bicycle "Beauty," like that other deadly phrase, "beautiful drawing," is ever the shibboleth of the mediocre, of imitators, in a word, of the academy. Ivory Apes and Peacocks Capacity is a secondary matter in a midwife, temper in a servant, affection in a daughter, and the repetition of a shibboleth fulfils the law. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 16 (of 25) Of the structural doctrines of theology which were then the shibboleths of English Churchmanship generally, I never entertained a doubt. Memoirs of Life and Literature The coming of the Democracy of Labor was a real democracy to him–no mere shibboleth. In the Heart of a Fool For a century longer, the shibboleths of voice and manner kept their force. The Twentieth Century American Being a Comparative Study of the Peoples of the Two Great Anglo-Saxon Nations But the mal-pronunciation of the shibboleth strikes deep centers of racial feeling and makes action spring faster than thought. The Cup of Fury A Novel of Cities and Shipyards That is the single shibboleth which distinguishes true men from false. Hours in a Library New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3) The shibboleth of orthodoxy, quoted above, "one incarnate nature of God the Word," passed rapidly into the watchword of heresy. Monophysitism Past and Present A Study in Christology There is a freemasonry amongst them, and they have their shibboleths and dark sayings, to protect them against priests and mobs. Flowers of Freethought (Second Series) The last word, "Almighty," is an adjective which we owe to the metaphysical genius of Christian theologians; and the first words, "I believe," are the customary shibboleth of the priests of every religion. Flowers of Freethought (First Series) She had none of the shibboleth spirit that leads certain people to die or slay for a pronunciation. The Cup of Fury A Novel of Cities and Shipyards It must picture the daily existence of our citizens from the beginning; their working ideas, their phrases and shibboleths and all their idols of the forum and the cave. The American Mind The E. T. Earl Lectures It is, indeed, one of those shibboleths of race which move the soul to its most ancient depths. A Singer from the Sea I have not yet finished with this tattered shibboleth. The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume V We must destroy the shibboleth: "All for wealth!" and re-write it: "All for health!"—the only wealth worth having. Another Sheaf Our day has inherited two shibboleths from the eighteenth century: enlightenment and tolerance. Hymns and Hymnwriters of Denmark He threw himself on his knees at my feet and lifted his hands with a biblical gesture of supplication crying out, 'Ar-rab, Ar-rab,' an effective, though probably unmerited, shibboleth. The Story of the Great War, Volume V (of 8) Battle of Jutland Bank; Russian Offensive; Kut-El-Amara; East Africa; Verdun; The Great Somme Drive; United States and Belligerents; Summary of Two Years' War Unluckily, there are far too many parties in France, far too many nicknames, badges, and shibboleths. Literary Tours in The Highlands and Islands of Scotland With liberty their shibboleth, the colonies triumphed in their long and fierce struggle with the mother country, and established an independent government. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III It means loss of faith in the collective ego, in the traditions, shibboleths, symbols, and destiny of the group. Introduction to the Science of Sociology Such qualities are generally misunderstood by the narrow-minded, who have only their own "shibboleths" to test all faith, and the one Church—whatever it may be—that they regard as "true." Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 6 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History The Socialist recognizes with perfect clearness, for example, that popular government is not a meaningless shibboleth, but a reality that has to be maintained and extended by fighting. Liberalism That word "genteel" had become the shibboleth of the Gordon family in the last four years. 'Lizbeth of the Dale Prosperity has spoken its shibboleths as well as orthodoxy. Quaker Hill A Sociological Study Opposition to rule, without the consent of the governed, has been the shibboleth with which liberty has rallied the votaries of constitutional government in all its reforms. Shadow and Light An Autobiography with Reminiscences of the Last and Present Century The relative barrenness of our faith during past centuries in India was largely, if not entirely, due to its foreign ecclesiastical forms and its shibboleths pronounced in foreign tongues. India, Its Life and Thought She could not be brought under bondage to any usage or custom, any party watch-word, or shibboleth of a speculative creed, or any mode of dress or address. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I The accent, along with that profane shibboleth, might have proceeded from anyone who spoke the language of France; but the tone of the voice could not be mistaken. The Ocean Waifs A Story of Adventure on Land and Sea The shibboleth that Saxham quoted was evidently unfamiliar to the girl. The Dop Doctor With logical force and critical candor he entered into the great conflict between science and faith, then dividing the Jewish world into two camps, with Maimonides' works as their shibboleth. Jewish Literature and Other Essays At dinner parties, and in all circles where literature is discussed at all, 'Illusion' was becoming a standard topic; friendships were cemented and intimacies dissolved over it; it became a kind of 'shibboleth.' The Giant's Robe He was conscious of an invisible force propelling him into that sorry parade, toward those unpretentious stones marked with the shibboleth of names and dates. Mountain Blood A Novel We often hear the shibboleth: “The Bible, and the Bible only, must be your guide.” The Faith of Our Fathers And this one could write in the accursed shibboleth of England as well as in the Taal. The Dop Doctor It is a sad fact that we carry there our Western shibboleths, our antiquated controversies, and our sectional jealousies. India's Problem, Krishna or Christ Is not their own shibboleth the hardest of all, the most shifting, the most inaudibly pronounced by themselves, if it be not a universal “No,” and yet the most rigorously insisted upon? The Voyage Alone in the Yawl "Rob Roy" Prone in the dust lies the demon Despair, still shouting his shibboleth To the treacherous Amazon dark-browed Fate, and her grisly comrade, Death. The Path of Dreams Poems Oyler has a motto, a very shibboleth, “The school for the community and the community for the school.” The New Education A Review of Progressive Educational Movements of the Day (1915) True, "pure doctrine," "unity in the pure doctrine of the Gospel," such was the shibboleth of the faithful Lutherans over against the Melanchthonians and other errorists. Historical Introductions to the Symbolical Books of the Evangelical Lutheran Church Was there no escape from the madness of the mart, no surcease from the frenzy of the factory or the shibboleth of the shop! An Anarchist Woman Napoleon himself in his early Jacobin days was saturated with its doctrines, and in later times astutely used its phrases as shibboleths to cloak his acts of despotism. The Story of Paris Tho' the demon Despair, where he vanquished lies, still utter his shibboleth— I fling my glove in the face of Fate and smile in the eyes of Death! The Path of Dreams Poems She swears by the shibboleth of experience, and every new baby she has makes her more disagreeable to people who have not had babies. The Lost Art of Reading What a relief it was when the king took all this responsibility from the shoulders and said to the artists and artisans, “Art for Art’s sake,” or whatever was the equivalent shibboleth of that day. The Tapestry Book The old shibboleths of victory are proclaimed as living principles. Robert Toombs Statesman, Speaker, Soldier, Sage This is the noble shibboleth with which the English youth are now spurred on to deeds of—what shall we say?—money-making activity. The Bertrams He stifles the convictions of conscience and shouts the shibboleth of party. Autobiography of Frank G. Allen, Minister of the Gospel and Selections from his Writings It is not for us to judge who is outside the pale of salvation nor to limit the love of God by our little shibboleths. The Gospel of the Hereafter High warp and low warp are the terms so often used as to seem a shibboleth. The Tapestry Book And the Spaniard, as he uttered this emphatic shibboleth, gnashed his teeth with vexation. The Tiger Hunter Indeed, it had latterly been their great shibboleth—latterly; that is, since their other greater shibboleths had been cut from under their feet. The Bertrams And if they do, we shall know our brother in every man that is like-minded with us towards them, whatever shibboleth may separate us. Expositions of Holy Scripture Ephesians; Epistles of St. Peter and St. John So that became the conviction, the creed, the shibboleth, of the Southern whites,—race purity, to be safeguarded by complete prohibition of all social intimacy, especially as symbolized by the common meal. The Negro and the Nation A History of American Slavery and Enfranchisement For the time and in that place there were terrorists: he made no confession of faith, avoided all snares, and served his adopted country as she was in fact with little reference to political shibboleths. The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. I. (of IV.) Such sinking of private shibboleths is a very excellent thing and goes far to show how thoroughly sound and healthy English public life really is au fond. Punch, or the London Charivari, July 1, 1914 That is the shibboleth of some of the Caucasian tribes. The Bertrams "Always has been," I said, completing the little interchange that had been reiterated so often that it had become almost a shibboleth. Attrition And the physical Hakim could by no test or shibboleth be prevented from silently introducing the spiritual Hakim. The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 1 He behaved as any general solicitous for the strength of his positions on foreign soil would have done, his ruses taking the form of constantly repeating the political shibboleths then used in France. The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. I. (of IV.) The word "Abolition" was not used on the placards—"free speech" was the shibboleth. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Volume 7 Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Orators The shibboleth of that great New York politician, "Find your sucker, play your sucker, land your sucker, and then beat it," would have been to him hopeless Choctaw. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 11 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Businessmen It seemed as if the different nations had sent representatives to contest the supremacy of their shibboleths. The Scalp Hunters There was strife, turmoil and dissension everywhere, a mighty power—that of Rome—opposing all free expression of opinion, an obsolete shibboleth called the Holy Roman Empire, and a ruthless enemy active in the East. From a Terrace in Prague These concluding phrases of the Manifesto have become the shibboleths of millions. Socialism A Summary and Interpretation of Socialist Principles The secret was unconventionality and absolute naturalness with no "shibboleths." A Labrador Doctor The Autobiography of Wilfred Thomason Grenfell At the last moment, and as I was parting from him, it occurred to me to try upon him the shibboleth which in Father Cotton's mouth had so mystified me. In Kings' Byways The customary morality is meant for slaves; the Superman must stride above the signs and shibboleths by which men are led, and create himself a morality more adequate to his own superb and insolent welfare. Human Traits and their Social Significance He had gone thrilling at all this for years on end, because it came from the lips of a pretty and engaging woman, with whom it was no more than a canting shibboleth. Despair's Last Journey Socialists are too often judged by their shibboleths, rather than by the principles which those shibboleths imperfectly express, or seek to express. Socialism A Summary and Interpretation of Socialist Principles Unfortunately, when Greek architecture was discovered in the second half of the eighteenth century, it became the shibboleth of the ‘virtuosi’. The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield A year or two ago it became the shibboleth of his class that they couldn't read Dickens. My Contemporaries In Fiction Even of the comparatively few in the vast family of humanity who own its supremacy, how many can repeat its shibboleths in common? Morality as a Religion An exposition of some first principles It is hard to forget old shibboleths and loyalties. The Moral Economy My sweet babe, my dear ex-Junior, let us initiate you into the shibboleths of the Fifth! The Youngest Girl in the Fifth A School Story It does not take very many of them to compel the honest conviction that equity of citizenship for all the people in every walk of life means more to these farmers than a high-sounding shibboleth. Deep Furrows "I don't know"—"I don't know"—"I don't know"—the shibboleth of the strikers' cause went down the line. The Madigans Here are, joined together, in the compass of one practical exhortation, the truths which, put asunder, have been the war-cries and shibboleths of contending sects ever since. Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Corinthians, Galatians, and Philippians Chapters I to End. Colossians, Thessalonians, and First Timothy. A very similar political shibboleth, often used by Party Socialists, is "Let the nation own the trusts." Socialism As It Is A Survey of The World-Wide Revolutionary Movement During this time it has uttered its shibboleth that that political party, and that only, which declares in its platform for the complete prohibition of the liquor traffic, can have its influence and its prayers. Two Decades A History of the First Twenty Years' Work of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union of the State of New York The old party shibboleths will be swept away. Lloyd George The Man and His Story Nor did he wait till Freedom had become The popular shibboleth of courtier's lips; He smote for her when God Himself seemed dumb And all His arching skies were in eclipse. Highways and Byways in Sussex It is not every one," Mr. Draconmeyer said slowly, "who bows his knee to the shibboleth of party politics. Mr. Grex of Monte Carlo It also discussed the "average Negro" and his "inherent characteristics" at great length, dwelling on his supposed inferior mentality and weakness of character, and raising other racial shibboleths. Integration of the Armed Forces, 1940-1965 What matches have been made here both for life and for centuries—as, in the "shibboleth" of our day, a hundred pounds is sometimes termed! Belles and Ringers Carlyle set scores of students striving to recreate the great men of the past and by their standards to reject the shibboleths of the present. Victorian Worthies Sixteen Biographies Touch was the shibboleth of that school, not tone; and technic was often achieved at the expense of more spiritual qualities. Old Fogy His Musical Opinions and Grotesques It is the shibboleth of the red blooded, hot headed, bravest and best of the nation, the youth, who die in countless thousands—for what? Evening Round Up More Good Stuff Like Pep Finally, the experiment successfully attacked one of the traditionalists' shibboleths, that close association of the races in Army units would cause social dissension. Integration of the Armed Forces, 1940-1965 "What sort of witches' shibboleth was that which you brought off in Siegelman's?" asked Curtis, while the car was humming placidly up Broadway. One Wonderful Night A Romance of New York And then sides of houses were covered with that shibboleth—"Vavasor and the River Bank"—the same words repeated in columns down the whole sides of houses. Can You Forgive Her? That was the secret shibboleth, the free-mason's sign, which for nine long years kept the thoughts of the Japanese people continually centered on one object. Banzai! by Parabellum I know now that this leniency on the part of the British Government does not arise from craft, but from their unexplainable devotion to their shibboleth—'The liberty of the subject.' The Triumphs of Eugène Valmont The most successful American politicians, beginning with the anti-slavery agitators, have been those most adept at twisting the ancient gauds and shibboleths of Puritanism to partisan uses. A Book of Prefaces We do not wish to raise the Russian cry, "Russia for the Russians," or the Chinese shibboleth, "China for the Chinese." Aliens or Americans? That blessed word 'Soviet' has become a shibboleth. The Red Conspiracy This was the shibboleth with which Congress passed the bill providing for the creation of a standing militia-army and making the military training of every American citizen a national duty. Banzai! by Parabellum They were still further offended because He used none of the shibboleths with which they were familiar. The Empire of Love This law, expressed by Goethe, is the controlling shibboleth in all Haeckel's philosophy. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 12 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Scientists Mr. Bull was in his element, and spent his time principally in going to the post office in search of news, and asking everybody's political shibboleth. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 6, December 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Armstrong's shibboleth, too, was, "With malice toward none, but with charity for all, let us finish the work God has given us to do." Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 10 Little Journeys To The Homes Of Great Teachers Then it is the most natural thing for the glib man to set up the thing he can do most easily as the thing essential to salvation, and thus a shibboleth becomes the saving sign. Levels of Living Essays on Everyday Ideals The modus vivendi treaty was periodically renewed by the Colonial Legislature with a submissiveness which would have seemed excessive if they had not been pressed with the shibboleth of Imperial interest. The Story of Newfoundland His godly hymns betray no credal shibboleth or doctrinal bias, but are songs for the whole earthly church of God. The Story of the Hymns and Tunes This is the first recorded utterance of the modern shibboleth: "The Fatherhood of God and the Brotherhood of Man." Insights and Heresies Pertaining to the Evolution of the Soul New Thought is founded on the laws of your own nature, and its shibboleth is, "Know Thyself." Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 10 Little Journeys To The Homes Of Great Teachers But salvation does not depend on any shibboleth. Levels of Living Essays on Everyday Ideals India has searched out the value of many a Western shibboleth, destroyed many doctrines, principles, ideas and theories. Rudyard Kipling Chinese exclusion, Japanese exclusion, Hindu exclusion suddenly became party shibboleths—always for the party out of power, never for the party in power. The Canadian Commonwealth "All evil is only undeveloped good" has come to be the "shibboleth" of not only the Spiritualists, but of many other of the latter-day cults. Insights and Heresies Pertaining to the Evolution of the Soul Absolute truth to Gladstone was a matter of indifference—expediency was his shibboleth. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 10 Little Journeys To The Homes Of Great Teachers Challenged, he would have proved it by some petty tests of pronunciation, some Good Templar's shibboleths. Certain Personal Matters It is the shibboleth of the British Raj. The Adventures of Kathlyn The Radicalism of the workers went hand in hand with the Radicalism of the bourgeoisie; the Charter was the shibboleth of both. The Condition of the Working-Class in England in 1844 with a Preface written in 1892 Strange how men are taken with fine words and phrases, and what slaves they are to shibboleths! Fifty Years of Railway Life in England, Scotland and Ireland The shibboleth of the modern schools of oratory is, "We grow through expression." Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 10 Little Journeys To The Homes Of Great Teachers We even had our shibboleth, a verdict to be passed before anything could hope for toleration in Troy. The Astonishing History of Troy Town They must, by a wise policy, hasten the day when politics shall cease to be the shibboleth that creates perpetual warfare. Black and White Land, Labor, and Politics in the South But this is assuredly nothing but youthful folly, and making of 'liberty' a mere shibboleth, as though liberty were worth possessing at the price of all this misery! History of the Wars, Books III and IV The Vandalic War His nature was too "multiple" to subscribe to the set of shibboleths of any one class. Four Weird Tales Are not the present antics of the Supreme Council in Paris sufficient proof that saving democracy was just another shibboleth? The Pride of Palomar It would be difficult to define exactly what opens the doors of Australian society, but is the shibboleth any more definite in London? Town Life in Australia Science is not the shibboleth of a sect or the cabalistic insignia of philosophy; it excludes all error and includes all Truth. No and Yes They have read the rhetorical "decrees" and "proclamations" in which the shibboleths of freedom and democracy abound, and are satisfied. Bolshevism The Enemy of Political and Industrial Democracy It is time to cast aside this shibboleth of printer's ink and paper and look the thing itself straight in the face. Critical and Historical Essays Lectures delivered at Columbia University We have promulgated other fool shibboleths which we are too proud or too stupid to repudiate. The Pride of Palomar A screed of jargon—a patter of shibboleth—and that is all. Matthew Arnold Here and there, an old and incurable devotee to mere forms or party shibboleth, who could not comprehend the new order of thought, went over to the 'Democratic' conservatives. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No. 1, July, 1862 In a spirit of intelligent opportunism, therefore, they subordinated shibboleths, prejudices, dogmas, and theories to Russia's necessity. Bolshevism The Enemy of Political and Industrial Democracy "I, too, remarked," said an Assistant, "that she possesses not the shibboleth whereunto she laid claim." The Knight of the Golden Melice A Historical Romance Brilliant psychologists and astute diplomatists, they have taken advantage of our pet shibboleth, to the effect that all men are equal. The Pride of Palomar But in Germany "throne and altar" became the shibboleth of the school; half of the romanticists joined the Catholic Church, and the new literature rallied to the side of aristocracy and privilege. A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century Readers unhappily not of the "Brahmin caste of New England" have sometimes resented as snobbishness Holmes's harping on "family," and his perpetual application of certain favorite shibboleths to other people's ways of speech. Initial Studies in American Letters Also, he was all but lyrical in his voicing of the shibboleth that Woman's Sphere is the Home, wherein she should be adored, enshrined, and protected. Slippy McGee, Sometimes Known as the Butterfly Man What we really want in this country is a coalition of all the shibboleths with the rest of us in opposition ... for five years only. Waste A Tragedy, In Four Acts The clerical country gentlemen understood it all as though there were some secret sign or shibboleth between them; but the outsiders had no complaint to make of arrogance, and did not feel themselves aggrieved. The Claverings There were sharply defined and hostile factions of classics and romantics, with party cries, watchwords, and shibboleths; a propaganda carried on and a polemic waged in pamphlets, prefaces, and critical journals. A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century "On to Canada!" was the shibboleth of the adventurous colonists; and the expedition started. History of the Negro Race in America From 1619 to 1880. Vol 1 Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens The Hebrews tested the enemy with the word shibboleth, and found that he could only say sibboleth. Scientific American Supplement, No. 794, March 21, 1891 Was not the decision rather fatal to the great doctrine—the shibboleth of the Democratic party? Stephen A. Douglas A Study in American Politics All the shibboleths of a journalism which respected neither itself, its purpose, nor its readers echoed from every page. Success A Novel Yet I know numberless dwellers in Gotham whose shibboleth is "nothing outside of New York City but scenery," and they are a little dubious about admitting that. A Little Book for Christmas He did not, it is true, aim at any fanciful ideal, or adopt any fantastic shibboleths. John Stuart Mill; His Life and Works Twelve Sketches by Herbert Spencer, Henry Fawcett, Frederic Harrison, and Other Distinguished Authors The democracy is a ready victim to shibboleths and catchwords, as all demagogues know too well. Outspoken Essays If those who have outgrown the church do not introduce the subject by treading on the old lady's corns, they can effectually resist all interposition of shibboleths by the followers of Pusey in all sects. The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years This Government would ignore such assertions, but when it finds that the ideas and the shibboleths of the South African League are continually echoed in the speeches of members of H.M. A Century of Wrong "The peace of South Africa is only possible under Boer supremacy," is the Bond shibboleth. Origin of the Anglo-Boer War Revealed (2nd ed.) The Conspiracy of the 19th Century Unmasked The effect of prolonged peace has been to make "concentration" a kind of shibboleth, so that the division of a fleet tends almost to be regarded as a sure mark of bad leadership. Some Principles of Maritime Strategy You were a Cary—you were part and parcel of the loved past—you had all the shibboleths—you could comfort, commiserate, and counsel! Lewis Rand The women simply were sacrificed to political expediency; set aside without a moment's hesitation in obedience to the party shibboleth. The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years He would listen, with childlike envy, to Adrian, glib of tongue, exchanging with Doria the shibboleths of the Higher Life. Jaffery But in the composition of the shibboleths of beliefs non-essentials as well as essentials enter, the former to the latter in the proportion of two to one. William Lloyd Garrison The Abolitionist In this way he cleared the atmosphere of the distorting mists of catchwords and shibboleths. The Inside Story of the Peace Conference Chief author of the Radical shibboleth, "Peace, Retrenchment and Reform." The Felon's Track History Of The Attempted Outbreak In Ireland, Embracing The Leading Events In The Irish Struggle From The Year 1843 To The Close Of 1848 So each craft was made a self-determining unit and "craft autonomy" became a sacred shibboleth in the labor movement without interfering with unity on essentials. A History of Trade Unionism in the United States The empty shibboleths—the loud and blatant voice—the bumptious temper—that make the commoner form of Tory—all are there. Sketches in the House (1893) Hence there is no shibboleth that patriotic Americans should fight more tenaciously and more fiercely than of America for the Americans, and Europe for the Europeans. The Promise of American Life We are called upon on all sides of this ancient quarrel to make what people call sacrifices—sacrifices of inherited predilections, of old-world ideas, and of ancient shibboleths, of perhaps ingrained prejudice. John Redmond's Last Years Their doors, though sealed, were eloquent, for they bore in great black letters on staring white muslin the shibboleth of the day, "1776—International Exhibition—1876." Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 102, June, 1876 We must be prepared to discard obsolete shibboleths, to search out abuse, to disregard persons, to be instant in pressing for necessary reforms—social, educational, administrative, and if need be, constitutional. Native Races and the War Assuredly not the shibboleths of High or Low Church. New Ideas in India During the Nineteenth Century A Study of Social, Political, and Religious Developments Resolute government, that shallow shibboleth of those who do not understand how complex a thing the art of government is, is his posthumous panacea for past evils. Reviews She knew the limits of her shibboleth of culture, and never passed them. Through stained glass The terms ancient and modern, naive and sentimental, classic and romantic, have been shibboleths of culture from Jean Paul, Schiller, and Hegel, to Vischer. The Development of the Feeling for Nature in the Middle Ages and Modern Times It was the exclamation by which, in his neat tavern, I had recognized my brave old friend Joliet: it was impossible, by the same shibboleth, to refuse longer an acquaintance with his daughter. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 33, December, 1873 To the average reader this latter reads like so much unintelligible shibboleth; but it is a fair sample of the disjointed language by which I manage to convey my meaning plainly to the Afghan chieftain. Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama It sounded like the shibboleth of a great leader in a crisis. The Last Shot Marcoy begged the interpreter to procure him the explanation of this perpetual shibboleth. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 23, February, 1873 He gave us a philosophy of clothes, penetrated through symbols to the immortal ideas, condemned all shibboleths, and revealed the soul of humanity behind the external modes of man's activity. Browning as a Philosophical and Religious Teacher Deference to a fetish, a shibboleth, to the ancient, unwritten law that one must not do that which hypocrites condemn and cowards fear to do, unless, indeed, one can "get away with it." Kindred of the Dust But the three years of constant trying had enabled her to talk upon most subjects in a shibboleth of the world which imposed upon everyone. Halcyone Defiance of all critical canons at any cost is their shibboleth. Promenades of an Impressionist Associated words: bucolic, pastoral, staff, crook. shibboleth, n. watchword, party cry. shield, n. ægis, buckler, escutcheon, scutcheon, pavise, scutum; defense, protection, palladium, bulwark, safeguard. Putnam's Word Book Madame did know at least how to bear herself with the seeming of a lady, and could say her shibboleth as it ought to be said. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 097, January, 1876 But from the beginning he was the foremost man by virtue of natural and acquired ability, although a reluctant following was often given because of former habitudes and shibboleths, socially. Personal Recollections of Pardee Butler The word "fatigue" is a shibboleth with, the British private. The First Hundred Thousand But I little thought that the Dean, in his zeal for Ireland, would vouchsafe to adopt the shibboleth of it. The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. — Volume 06 The Drapier's Letters Few of those present knew what Socialism was, but all knew the word as a shibboleth of salvation from sweaters. Children of the Ghetto A Study of a Peculiar People Fraternities, religious and other, with their symbols and shibboleths. The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge Whether legislation will ever come to the point of recognizing the railroad man's shibboleth, "charge what the traffic will bear," is perhaps dubious. Popular Law-making No matter--he can talk--he has the shibboleth of the true Church--the Bible in his pocket, and a head well stored with notions. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 09 — Lives and Letters This shibboleth is the logical result of the attitude mentioned. A Short History of Women's Rights From the Days of Augustus to the Present Time. with Special Reference to England and the United States. Second Edition Revised, With Additions. Bishop Latimer used the preterite shew, which Mr. Bartlett, in his "Dictionary of Americanisms," pronounces to be the shibboleth of Bostonians. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 16, February, 1859 Alas!" says Fuller, it is a shibboleth to a child's tongue wherein there is a confluence of hard consonants together; and then he continues, "What the child could not pronounce the parents do not practise. The Teaching of Jesus It was in vain Robin spent a whole morning, during a walk over Minch-Moor, in attempting to teach his companion to utter, with true precision, the shibboleth Llhu, which is the Gaelic for a calf. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 280, October 27, 1827 "Anti-masonic" is the word, a kind of "shibboleth" for those who are to cross the political "fords" of the new Jordan. Personal Memoirs of a Residence of Thirty Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers Still are God's dumb creatures tortured, Racial hatreds never cease, And man's greatest self-delusion Is the shibboleth of "Peace." Poems France, unlike England and Germany, was not content merely to repeat the old shibboleths with continually diminishing conviction. Proposed Roads to Freedom Progress should ever be the shibboleth of man, but progress and improvement are not always synonyms. Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 01 Score tied, three to three, game must go ten innings—that was the shibboleth; that was the overmastering truth. The Redheaded Outfield An oath is the shibboleth of their sinister fellowship. Lay Morals Secondly, every new discovery is apt to be discredited by new shibboleths, and one-sided exaggerations of its range. Thomas Carlyle Party-cries tend to become shibboleths and it is difficult to unravel the web that has been spun by the hand of a master. A History of Rome During the Later Republic and Early Principate The impressive utterers of the goom-zup shibboleth, the slayers of the symbolical lion, carried on still. The Leopard Woman Mr. Bartlett calls this the "shibboleth of Bostonians." The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 25, November, 1859 It was the shibboleth by which men were to be conjured into well-being. The Life of Cicero Volume One Surely in such a day as this it is no time to discuss shibboleths. Five Sermons Every country has its appeal—its shibboleth—ready for the lips of the imperialist. Woman and the New Race It was a shibboleth proving his story true. The Mountebank One may be "ignorant of the shibboleth of a good set," yet speak most excellent English. Manners and Social Usages Blasco is almost the typical Socialist—iconoclastic, oratorical, sentimental, theatrical—a fervent advocate of all sorts of lofty causes, eagerly responsive to the shibboleths of the hour. Youth and Egolatry Forgetting and ignoring the old slogans and shibboleths, he appealed to the hearts and consciences of the people of the state. Woodrow Wilson as I Know Him But his mind harboured none of the common Protestant rules and shibboleths. The History of David Grieve By no mere shibboleth of words, no waving of a wand, could she restore the past, reconstruct what had been out of what was. The Vision of Desire By such means Voronok succeeded in developing the desired mood in his visitors; all the party shibboleths were assimilated by them quickly and thoroughly. The Created Legend They are continually poisoning the ears of men by repeating these shibboleths. The Home and the World They repeated, parrot-like, the conventional utterances—the shibboleths —of the hour, and thus hid from one another the real thoughts which would have scotched the mania at the outset. The History of the United States from 1492 to 1910, Volume 1 From Discovery of America October 12, 1492 to Battle of Lexington April 19, 1775 Then had come his moment of utterance—a thirst for preaching, for religious influence; though he could not bring himself to accept any particular shibboleth or take any kind of orders. The History of David Grieve "How do you do, brother?" he added, as if uttering a shibboleth that could protect him from any physical violence. Over the Pass The shibboleth of the one is 'self-interest;' of the other, 'national honour.' Dawn In this form it appealed as irresistibly to the Serbs as did the rival shibboleth of "The treaty, the whole treaty, and nothing but the treaty" to the Bulgarians. The War and Democracy It is not because a man accepts a shibboleth that he is narrow and small, but because he fights for it. Beacon Lights of History, Volume 04 Imperial Antiquity We are not exacting in the matter of clothes; we are liberal on creeds; but we have our shibboleths. Bits about Home Matters In all large towns a few of this complexion may be found; and in Preston odd ones exist whose shibboleth is “Christian Brethren.” Our Churches and Chapels Their Parsons, Priests, & Congregations Being a Critical and Historical Account of Every Place of Worship in Preston Honour, forsooth! it is like a nurse's bogey in the cupboard—it is a shibboleth men use to frighten naughty women with, which for themselves is almost devoid of meaning. Dawn This shibboleth, or slogan, came to them from across the sea and was first uttered in England before the days of Magna Charta. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 21 The Recent Days (1910-1914) In proportion to the unimportance of the shibboleth was tenacity to it,--a mark which has ever characterized narrow and illiberal minds. Beacon Lights of History, Volume 04 Imperial Antiquity For two centuries the mosques and the mint proclaimed the shibboleth of the Shiahs. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 05 (From Charlemagne to Frederick Barbarossa) The matter of the oaths, they agreed, it was time enough to dispute about, whenever the shibboleth should be tendered. The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Volume 2 "Done" is a Virginia shibboleth, quite distinct from the "been" which replaces it in South Carolina. Army Life in a Black Regiment "Taxation without representation" was the shibboleth of the men who founded the government of the United States of America. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 21 The Recent Days (1910-1914) Rizal’s name continued to be used as the shibboleth of the insurrection, and the masses were made to believe that he would appear as their leader at the appointed hour. The Social Cancer The majority of these early heroes had no other shibboleth than "I am going to separate the head from the trunk!" The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 05 (From Charlemagne to Frederick Barbarossa) He was concerned with the living spirit, not with ritual, or formularies, or doctrinal shibboleths. The Adventure of Living : a Subjective Autobiography His cry, "Back to Nature," is still the shibboleth of a great many good men, from Parson Wagner to Theodore Roosevelt. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 09 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Reformers Dear naïve old song, fitting climax of a feudal day, sweet with the freshness of those simple times, when art for art's sake was a shibboleth uninvented, and every other man was not diabolically clever! Without Prejudice Its phrases have become the shibboleth of pietistic sectarians. God and my Neighbour I answered, making bold to quote his shibboleth. The Guest of Quesnay This shibboleth had the desired effect, for the man within was instantly heard to start from his bed, and to step out upon the floor. La Vendée And this led to that shibboleth of the Revolution, "Liberty, Fraternity, Equality." Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 09 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Reformers It is curious to know that while party feeling ran high in the Scotch Church, it was a shibboleth of the Moderate party to use the Lord's Prayer in the Church service. The Recreations of a Country Parson There were other Persians beyond him, for I caught the word poul—money, the perennial song and shibboleth of that folk. The Eye of Zeitoon The blacks still continued to shout their shibboleth, pointing to Somerset, which they called "Kaieeby." Narrative of the Overland Expedition of the Messrs. Jardine from Rockhampton to Cape York, Northern Queensland It was a word at once of cherished and revered meaning—the shibboleth of her religion. The Woman Who Did The designs of Russia, the troubles in Ireland—of these things he knew little and recked less; they were "party shibboleths," and did not concern a Christian minister in his pulpit. Denzil Quarrier We all did very well but the second mate, who, being a Herefordshire man, could not, for the life of him, get any nearer to the Doric, in the latter shibboleth, than "our halters." The Monikins It is one of the shibboleths by which he may be known. Writings of Thomas Paine — Volume 2 (1779-1792): the Rights of Man Education, wealth, leisure and all the shibboleths of caste and culture,—how easily they crack and gape before a touch of nature. Who Cares? a story of adolescence The pet shibboleths of the opponents of the reform were that the system we proposed to introduce would give rise to mere red-tape bureaucracy, and that the reformers were pharisees. Theodore Roosevelt; an Autobiography Success to the Mark Twain Club!—and the novel shibboleth of the Whistle. Mark Twain's Letters — Volume 2 (1867-1875) His pronouncement was scarcely uttered before it became the shibboleth of statesmen and business men. The Armies of Labor A chronicle of the organized wage-earners They agreed now—loudly; adding the old shibboleth of the moral coward: "I told you so." Garrison's Finish : a romance of the race course He had become quite dialectic in his appeal, as if youthfully reverting to some accent of the nursery, or as if he were exhorting her in some recognized shibboleth of a section. Colonel Starbottle's Client One of their shibboleths was that the office should seek the man and not the man the office. Theodore Roosevelt; an Autobiography Their motions seemed a little meaningless to one so far removed from all the fetishes and shibboleths of Westminster. The Patrician "Vote yourself a farm" became a popular shibboleth and a part of the standard programme of organized labor. The Armies of Labor A chronicle of the organized wage-earners As her brain clouded over, as the memory of the views grew dim and the words of the book died away, she returned to her old shibboleth of nerves. A Room with a View From it sprang all the things that he hated—class shibboleths, ladies, lidies, the game laws, the Conservative party—all the things that accent the divergencies rather than the similarities in human nature. The Longest Journey The effect of the shibboleth in question is usually merely to put a premium on hypocrisy, and therefore to favor the creature who is willing to rise by hypocrisy. Theodore Roosevelt; an Autobiography She soon bowed, if there was indeed any resistance from the first, very contentedly in the House of Rimmon, learning to repeat, with marked fluency, the customary formulas and shibboleths. Father and Son: a study of two temperaments At the last moment it occurred to me to try upon him the shibboleth which in Father Cotton's mouth had so mystified me. Stories By English Authors: France (Selected by Scribners) Life is easy to chronicle, but bewildering to practice, and we welcome "nerves" or any other shibboleth that will cloak our personal desire. A Room with a View The moment the majority seized upon it, that great principle became a shibboleth and harbinger of blood and fire, spreading suffering and disaster. Anarchism and Other Essays Why is a gentleman of property to be kept out in the cold by some O'Mullins because he will not mutter an unmeaning shibboleth? The Prime Minister I can imagine this shibboleth of the shutter grown to a watchword as deadly as the 'TUEZ!' of '72. From the Memoirs of a Minister of France That was the shibboleth—the cry by which she sounded the closed depths of her love and called to the stricken life of a woman's insatiate vanity. The Call of the Canyon Trade, property, business, respectability, good form; these were the shibboleth they worshipped. The Vision Splendid Yet he could not help being what he was, a fatherly, kindly old man, having faith in those shibboleths of the weak and inexperienced mentally—human justice and human decency. The Financier, a novel That phrase, "the white man's charter of freedom," had become Lincoln's shibboleth. Lincoln; An Account of his Personal Life, Especially of its Springs of Action as Revealed and Deepened by the Ordeal of War He adopted its shibboleths, fought when he must, went through the annual routine of marbles, tops, kites, hop scotch, and baseball. The Vision Splendid "Humanity" had once been the American shibboleth; it was giving place to a new shibboleth-"prosperity." Lincoln; An Account of his Personal Life, Especially of its Springs of Action as Revealed and Deepened by the Ordeal of War |
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