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  • Animals in the wild lead lives of compulsion and necessity within an unforgiving social hierarchy in an environment where the supply of fear is high and the supply of food low and where territory must constantly be defended and parasites forever endured.†   (source)
  • Voting rights were taken away from African Americans, and a series of racially restrictive laws enforced the racial hierarchy.†   (source)
  • The city's population of fifty thousand was scattered about its sloping terrain in a descending hierarchy that closely followed the lay of the land.†   (source)
  • By treating us with respect, Schindler was resisting the Nazi racist ideology that constructed a hierarchy of humanity in which Jews were at the very bottom.†   (source)
  • Langdon pointed to a hierarchy of ancient gods on the wall.†   (source)
  • Hierarchy could not exist among them, because they lacked the neural complexes that would have created it.†   (source)
  • A hierarchy within the hierarchy.†   (source)
  • Ender watched from the fringes of the group as Bernard established the hierarchy.†   (source)
  • The last therapist understood the hierarchy of our family and talked to my father, not me.†   (source)
  • ...she still had to divide her food into tiny little piles-a hierarchy I didn't quite understand involving color and consistency†   (source)
  • I should explain message hierarchy.†   (source)
  • In the social hierarchy of California's farmers, orange growers stood at the very top; their homes were set amid fragrant evergreen trees that produced a lucrative income.†   (source)
  • Butlers of my father's generation, I would say, tended to see the world in terms of a ladder - the houses of royalty, dukes and the lords from the oldest families placed at the top, those of 'new money' lower down and so on, until one reached a point below which the hierarchy was determined simply by wealth - or the lack of it.†   (source)
  • There's a hierarchy of command and the Inquisitor is near the top.†   (source)
  • She had remained silent in full awareness of the worth of her position as a charity employee, but in the memorandum she noted that she had said nothing not because of negligence but out of respect for the hierarchies in the section.†   (source)
  • SAYYADINA: feminine acolyte in the Fremen religious hierarchy.†   (source)
  • But I never believed a dog could answer to two masters, and if there could be only one alpha leader in the household hierarchy, I wanted it to be me.†   (source)
  • Prose free of racial hierarchy and triumphalism.†   (source)
  • Gazes leapt away from his gaze, as they might among packs of dogs in the wild, in which a hierarchy is set by some sensed quality of violent potential.†   (source)
  • ") Catholic churches were at the center of the popular revolt—not the cathedrals where the Duvalierist hierarchy presided but what was called ti legliz, the small churches of the ruined countryside and of the cities' slums.†   (source)
  • Three assets kept showing up in the hierarchy.†   (source)
  • It's a world with its own set of rules and hierarchy, which is fine if you buy into those things.†   (source)
  • And like school, jail was an artificial society, with its own hierarchy and rules.†   (source)
  • They assembled in a seating hierarchy, the highest place in the room reserved for Fatimah's husband.†   (source)
  • No doubt, at school, the boy with whom he was wrestling failed to feel the curious stabs of terror and pleasure that Eric felt, as they grappled with each other, as one boy pinned the other to the ground; and if Eric saw the girls at all, he saw mainly their clothes and their hair; they were not, for him, as were the boys, creatures in a hierarchy, to be adored or feared or despised.†   (source)
  • Though K. D. was my nephew according to tribal hierarchy, I was younger and far less senior to him.†   (source)
  • There's a clear hierarchy: the closer to the back, the more impressive the quarters.†   (source)
  • They are constantly testing where they stand in the hierarchy—where they can sleep, how much they can eat of a fresh kill.†   (source)
  • The troop has a strict hierarchy.†   (source)
  • Many chicken plants around Atlanta ran twenty-four hours a day, and many refugees—starting out at the bottom of the employee hierarchy—ended up taking jobs on the night shift.†   (source)
  • David always said Lexington was like the limestone on which it was built: layers of stratification, nuances of being and belonging, your place in the hierarchy fixed in stone long ago.†   (source)
  • Its structure emphasized rigidity and hierarchy-a result of the tribes the Urgals organized themselves into-but it felt rough and raw, brutal and cunning: the mind of a wild animal.†   (source)
  • Still, in the hierarchy of things, a poem seemed much more important than a potty that played music when a toilet-training toddler went in its bowl.†   (source)
  • Always remember, fencing requires a mastery of skills that are sequential and hierarchical in nature.†   (source)
  • He spelled out the Klan hierarchy as it proceeded from the local to the national level: an Exalted Cyclops and his twelve Terrors; a Great Titan and his twelve Furies; a Grand Dragon and his nine Hydras; and the Imperial Wizard and his fifteen Genii.†   (source)
  • Danbury had a distinct labor hierarchy, and I was at the bottom of it.†   (source)
  • Ambiades, I realized, was the kind of person who liked to put people in a hierarchy, and he wanted me to understand that I was at the bottom of his.†   (source)
  • He was told that a promotion was forthcoming that would enable him to jump two spaces in the military hierarchy instead of merely one, an unheard-of opportunity.†   (source)
  • Family hierarchy had to be respected: she would work hard to prove her worth.†   (source)
  • Oscar would be starting from near the bottom of the military hierarchy and would have to work his way up the chain of command step-by-step.†   (source)
  • Not surprisingly, the military hierarchy had little respect for the products of the system they had designed.†   (source)
  • "There are a great deal of annotations in modern English, but there's no hierarchy to it, no order, other than a rough chronological one."†   (source)
  • He was a peculiar servant, and had no specific duties within the domestic hierarchy.†   (source)
  • Next in the hierarchy are the athletes.†   (source)
  • In the hierarchy of sentiments, then, it is supreme.†   (source)
  • Perhaps she should have been grateful to him, happy to be alive, but in the hierarchy of her emotions, anger was always trumps.†   (source)
  • And to make it worse, your subverting the local hierarchy—†   (source)
  • There at the head of the platform with its pulpit and rail of polished brass are the banked and pyramided heads of the student choir, faces composed and stolid above uniforms of black and white; and above them, stretching to the ceiling, the organ pipes looming, a gothic hierarchy of dull gilded gold.†   (source)
  • Meribald was a septon without a sept, only one step up from a begging brother in the hierarchy of the Faith.†   (source)
  • Scholars believed that he was one of the greater corrupted stewards and fit him into their hierarchies.†   (source)
  • Social hierarchies have always been much weaker in the United States than in older countries.†   (source)
  • It was like describing the hierarchy of the Trinity or the language of phalaropes.†   (source)
  • On the contrary, I believe that hierarchy and painful controls create destructive people.†   (source)
  • But I can imagine my father saying his no, no, it was clearly Kwang's Confucian training at work, his secular religion of pure hierarchy, his belief that everyone is at once a noble and a servant and then just a man.†   (source)
  • -in Carlos' hierarchy, we might even force him to come out.†   (source)
  • He thought that conversations repeatedly nipped in the bud, microscopic chatter, people who stood talking to each other with their eyes scanning the room like hunters looking for birds, and the overwhelming weight of hierarchy, propriety, and manners necessary for an evening without unpleasant incident, were as exhausting and terrifying as a battle.†   (source)
  • The name hadn't been completely identified in his master's notes, but he saw clearly that it belonged to a mighty demon, a monster ranking just below the demon lords in the hierarchy of the Abyss.†   (source)
  • Hisham even caught the sisters, who were beneath him in the hierarchy, winking more than once to one another over him and laughing.†   (source)
  • A complex business, but both Cicely and Marco had connections with the hierarchy.†   (source)
  • The only thing I actually learned during this period was that, by comparison with the bureaucratic hierarchy in Ottawa, the scientific hierarchy was a brotherhood of anarchy.†   (source)
  • It was almost inevitable that George, as a leading member of the artistic hierarchy, should be one of the reception committee.†   (source)
  • In all slave worlds there soon develops a hierarchic design, a pecking order, patterns of influence and privilege; because of her great good fortune Sophie found herself among a small elite.†   (source)
  • — and must correctly describe the hierarchy of survival, note the motivations at each level, and resolve all conflicts.†   (source)
  • I intended to wipe out the entire hierarchy of Heaven.†   (source)
  • Ashe, Kiever, Peters; that was a progression in quality, in authority, which to Leamas was axiomatic. of the hierarchy of an intelligence network.†   (source)
  • As privates of the industrial army they are placed under the command of a perfect hierarchy of officers and sergeants.   (source)
  • Round Kim was an adoring hierarchy of kings, elders, and old-time Buddhas.   (source)
  • I refuse to make a hierarchy of human actions and ascribe worthiness to some and ill-repute to others.   (source)
  • Anna Pavlovna greeted him with the nod she accorded to the lowest hierarchy in her drawing room.   (source)
  • He is just below the King in the Saudi hierarchy.
  • In two years, she hopes to have her bosses spot in the corporate hierarchy.
    hierarchy = organization of job titles and reporting structure (or the chart depicting it)
  • Only insofar as they have a strict hierarchy and they take secrecy very seriously.†   (source)
  • So you think that God must relate inside a hierarchy like you do.†   (source)
  • In essence: the hierarchy of all hierarchies.†   (source)
  • He saw philosophy as the highest echelon of the entire hierarchy of knowledge.†   (source)
  • With this offering of self, Mal'akh would establish his rank in the hierarchy of demons.†   (source)
  • Poincaré laid down some rules: There is a hierarchy of facts.†   (source)
  • Now I want to talk about methods of finding one's way through these hierarchies…logic.†   (source)
  • This morning I talked about hierarchies of thought…the system.†   (source)
  • Killing me would be the fastest way for her to put herself back at the top of the hierarchy.†   (source)
  • And to make it worse, your subverting the local hierarchy—" "I used the local hierarchy!"†   (source)
  • And the very complexity of Burundi's social hierarchy also seems to have muted ethnic hostility.†   (source)
  • For my part, I wanted Ambiades to understand that I considered myself a hierarchy of one.†   (source)
  • Nor was he atop the intricate ladder of the family hierarchy.†   (source)
  • The reason we take that right for granted is that we stand at the top of the hierarchy.†   (source)
  • Peking can't blame anyone but unknown enemies of Sheng within its own hierarchy.†   (source)
  • They're a little reserved yet, not sure where I fit in their hierarchy."†   (source)
  • He embodies the Raider egalitarian ideal of no divisions between the men, no hierarchy.†   (source)
  • And ignoring what anyone else would have seen as the natural local hierarchy.†   (source)
  • Often you must have wondered what position my race held in the hierarchy of the universe.†   (source)
  • The hierarchy among the High Houses is slowly coming into focus, but I'm sure I'll mess up something anyway.†   (source)
  • Racial terror and the constant threat created by violently enforced racial hierarchy were profoundly traumatizing for African Americans.†   (source)
  • I almost forgot message hierarchy.†   (source)
  • Power distance is concerned with attitudes toward hierarchy, specifically with how much a particular culture values and respects authority.†   (source)
  • "Racial integrity" laws were part of a plan to replicate slavery's racial hierarchy and reestablish the subordination of African Americans.†   (source)
  • Hierarchy would make no sense among us.†   (source)
  • They were all flight engineers, who had been number three, after the captain and first officer, in the strict hierarchy of the original Korean Air.†   (source)
  • Nonetheless, the rites and degrees of Masonry were a complex hierarchy that Langdon had no desire to detail for Sato tonight.†   (source)
  • Vestiges remained in the arcane rituals of Christianity, in its god-eating rites of Holy Communion, its hierarchies of saints, angels, and demons, its chanting and incantation, its holy calendar's astrological underpinnings, its consecrated robes, and in its promise of everlasting life.†   (source)
  • In English, they would be free of the sharply denned gradients of Korean hierarchy: formal deference, informal deference, blunt, familiar, intimate, and plain.†   (source)
  • If you had truly learned to regard each other's concerns as significant as your own, there would be no need for hierarchy."†   (source)
  • Many people in the region insisted on a racialized hierarchy that required symbols, markers, and constant reinforcement, in part because of the area's proximity to the North.†   (source)
  • Hierarchy imposes laws and rules and you end up missing the wonder of relationship that we intended for you.†   (source)
  • They require and support hierarchy in a way the Germans simply don't. you couldn't understand Klotz's behavior without taking into account his nationality, that his predicament that day was uniquely the predicament of someone who had a deep and abiding respect for authority.†   (source)
  • Because I was born during a time when the stigma of racial hierarchy and Jim Crow had real consequences for the ways my elders had to act or react to a variety of indignations, I was mindful of the way that the daily humiliations and insults accumulated.†   (source)
  • This structure of concepts is formally called a hierarchy and since ancient times has been a basic structure for all Western knowledge.†   (source)
  • …a powerful force in dismantling Reconstruction after the Civil War, sustaining Jim Crow laws for a century and fueling divisive racial politics throughout the twentieth century In the aftermath of slavery, the creation of a system of racial hierarchy and segregation was largely designed to prevent intimate relationships like Walter and Karen's—relationships that were, in fact, legally prohibited by "anti-miscegenation statutes" (the word miscegenation came into use in the 1860s, when…†   (source)
  • "The trouble with living by priorities," Sarayu spoke, "is that it sees everything as a hierarchy, a pyramid, and you and I have already had that discussion.†   (source)
  • In the wake of the Avianca crash, the psychologist Robert Helmreich, who has done more than anyone to argue for the role of culture in explaining pilot behavior, wrote a brilliant analysis of the accident in which he argued that we are seeing in that comparison, Hofstede argued, is a difference in cultural attitudes toward hierarchy.†   (source)
  • The overall name of these interrelated structures, the genus of which the hierarchy of containment and structure of causation are just species, is system.†   (source)
  • Once you have a hierarchy you need rules to protect and administer it, and then you need law and the enforcement of the rules, and you end up with some kind of chain of command or a system of order that destroys relationship rather than promotes it.†   (source)
  • What we think of as reality is a continuous synthesis of elements from a fixed hierarchy of a priori concepts and the ever changing data of the senses.†   (source)
  • They are using the experiment as part of a program to expand their hierarchy of knowledge of the faulty motorcycle and compare it to the correct hierarchy in their mind.†   (source)
  • This you know from the hierarchy.†   (source)
  • Tables of contents of reference material are so structured, mechanical assemblies, computer software, all scientific and technical knowledge is so structured…so much so that in some fields such as biology, the hierarchy of kingdom phylum-class-order-family-genus-species is almost an icon.†   (source)
  • Solution of problems too complicated for common sense to solve is achieved by long strings of mixed inductive and deductive inferences that weave back and forth between the observed machine and the mental hierarchy of the machine found in the manuals.†   (source)
  • For example, if, from reading the hierarchy of facts about the machine, the mechanic knows the horn of the cycle is powered exclusively by electricity from the battery, then he can logically infer that if the battery is dead the horn will not work.†   (source)
  • What had previously been asked for was a metaphysical hierarchy that looked like this: _ What he gave them in return was a metaphysical hierarchy that looked like this: _ The Quality he was teaching was not just a part of reality, it was the whole thing.†   (source)
  • By asking the right questions and choosing the right tests and drawing the right conclusions the mechanic works his way down the echelons of the motorcycle hierarchy until he has found the exact specific cause or causes of the engine failure, and then he changes them so that they no longer cause the failure.†   (source)
  • Aristotle fouled up what Phaedrus wanted to say by placing rhetoric in an outrageously minor category in his hierarchic order of things.†   (source)
  • In this phase he made systematic, rigid statements about what Quality is, and worked out an enormous hierarchic structure of thought to support them.†   (source)
  • But when he asked it, because of his past, it spread out for him like waves in all directions simultaneously, not in a hierarchic structure, but in a concentric one.†   (source)
  • I've been going into all this business of analyses and definitions and hierarchies not for their own sake but to lay the groundwork for an understanding of the direction in which Phaedrus went.†   (source)
  • They don't like it when you talk to them because they are concentrating on mental images, hierarchies, and not really looking at you or the physical motorcycle at all.†   (source)
  • One can see how both the informal and formal processes of hypothesis, experiment, conclusion, century after century, repeated with new material, have built up the hierarchies of thought which have eliminated most of the enemies of primitive man.†   (source)
  • Data, classifications, hierarchies, cause-and-effect and analysis were discussed, and somewhere along there was some talk about a handful of sand, the world of which we're conscious, taken from the endless landscape of awareness around us.†   (source)
  • If all of human knowledge, everything that's known, is believed to be an enormous hierarchic structure, then the high country of the mind is found at the uppermost reaches of this structure in the most general, the most abstract considerations of all.†   (source)
  • I want to start a whole new academic field, gumptionology, in which these traps are sorted, classified, structured into hierarchies and interrelated for the edification of future generations and the benefit of all mankind.†   (source)
  • He had come on board recently to clean up the shambles of what was known as the Internal Bureau affair, and was already on his way to a higher position within the police hierarchy.†   (source)
  • She had kept her bargains with the officers in her army, promoting them outside their feudal hierarchy, making a new-model army that answered to her and not to the divisive barons.†   (source)
  • 'He was considered very bright, very ambitious — but then his rise in Peking's hierarchy tells us that.†   (source)
  • It's hierarchical."†   (source)
  • But at a bigger size you have to impose complicated hierarchies and rules and regulations and formal measures to try to command loyalty and cohesion.†   (source)
  • While Max did not know all the intricacies of hag culture, he had divined that it was deeply hierarchical and that the grandeur of one's given name was a surefire indicator of status.†   (source)
  • There was an organized hierarchy to the seating at our pool: The lifeguards got the picnic tables near the snack bar, while the moms and little kids stuck by the shallow end and the baby (i. e., pee) pool.†   (source)
  • By now it seemed obvious that a delivery boy belonged to a layer near the bottom of New York's hierarchy, and also that there was a bottom to that near-bottom, which he occupied.†   (source)
  • So I no longer believe the conservative message that children are naturally selfish and destructive creatures who need civilizing by hierarchies or painful controls.†   (source)
  • I obeyed this peremptory order with hardly more than a twitch of subdued rebelliousness, for if I had learned anything during my years at the university it was that the scientific hierarchy requires a high standard of obedience, if not subservience, from its acolytes.†   (source)
  • The only thing Finn did appear to care about was hierarchy (as demonstrated to us by the nameplate fiasco).†   (source)
  • He flipped open his mobile and checked the battery, then dialled the number of Hans-Åke Waltari, thirty-three years old and number three in Svavelsjö MC's hierarchy.†   (source)
  • Terror rose to the top of the ANC hierarchy in the general section, and was soon teaching ANC policies to other prisoners.†   (source)
  • But linguist John Fought says there is a "flattening of the hierarchy" even in publishing, a lot less layering of proofreading and copy editing and fact-checking, because the process is too expensive.†   (source)
  • Yet the cat had no power to disobey the will of its master, and Drizzt had no right to claim the figurine from Masoj, especially since the house of Hun'ett was much more powerful than Drizzt's own family in the structured hierarchy of the underworld.†   (source)
  • Lorton has its own peculiar hierarchy, where everyone knows everyone and everyone knows that pulling off a successful hustle is what the best people do.†   (source)
  • But I had noticed that in the actual hierarchy of values at the Institute, the sadist like Snipes rated higher than someone who took no interest in the freshmen and entertained no belief in the system at all.†   (source)
  • I supposed that in no time at all order would be restored and that once the tension of the first few days had ebbed I would get in touch with someone better placed within the military hierarchy.†   (source)
  • There may have been a hierarchy of importance among the speakers, but everyone was heard, chief and subject, warrior and medicine man, shopkeeper and farmer, landowner and laborer.†   (source)
  • Formally, Gullberg was subordinate to a line of people in the hierarchy under the head of Secretariat of the Security Police, to whom he had to deliver monthly reports, but in practice he had been given a unique position with exceptional powers.†   (source)
  • They were delivered by truck and escorted by two nuns in starched white coifs, who sat in the garden drinking chocolate with Clara and discussing the virtues of cross-stitching and the hierarchy of sin, while Blanca and her daughter taught the children how to fashion worms, balls, squashed dogs, and misshapen vases.†   (source)
  • In a strict order of family hierarchy, the relatives take turns opening their homes for the day's festivities.†   (source)
  • In Rwanda, the king and aristocracy were Tutsi, and it seems the social hierarchy was more rigid than in Burundi.†   (source)
  • In America's less hierarchical society, there has never been an official or socially imposed standard as there is in Britain, where the public schools (actually private, fee-paying schools) were set up in the nineteenth century to teach the sons of prosperous tradesmen to speak with a cultivated accent, like the sons of the aristocracy, who went to Eton.†   (source)
  • And so the spokesman watched diligently and patiently throughout the first long, uneventful day of the siege, noting the boundaries that the goblin tribes staked out as their own, and the order of hierarchy that determined the distance of each group from the center spot of Cryshal-Tirith.†   (source)
  • A cabal has been formed deep in Peking by a group of zealots led by a man so deeply entrenched in the hierarchy of his government, so revered as a philosopher-prince that he cannot be exposed.†   (source)
  • Subjected to such an upbringing, it would be natural to fit oneself into the hierarchy, issuing stern orders to underlings and blindly obeying those of superior status.†   (source)
  • And mostly that happens because we go to the top of the local hierarchy—there pretty much always is one—and offer them all sorts of benefits in exchange for behaving like citizens, offer them clientage contracts, which allows them to offer contracts to whoever is below them, and before you know it the whole local setup is tied into Radchaai society, with minimal disruption.†   (source)
  • The Bantu Authorities Act abolished the Natives Representative Council, the one indirect forum of national representation for Africans, and replaced it with a hierarchical system of tribal chiefs appointed by the government.†   (source)
  • If they were conspirators — and everything he had seen and heard from Shenzhen to Tian an men Square to this wildlife preserve would seem to confirm it — the conspiracy reached into the hierarchy of Beijing.†   (source)
  • And when he was finished with her, a child-siren who had elicited secrets from the Beijing hierarchy who demanded young girls — in the belief that such liaisons extended their lifespans — would disappear.†   (source)
  • Among the wealthy, clientage was a very hierarchical relationship—a patron promised certain sorts of assistance to her client, both financial and social, and a client provided support and services to her patron.†   (source)
  • From that day forward, no one in the educational hierarchy of the country could plead ignorance concerning the school on the island.†   (source)
  • So in my capacity as the lowest drudge in the office hierarchy I not only was denied the opportunity to read manuscripts even of passing merit, but was forced to plow my way daily through fiction and nonfiction of the humblest possible quality—coffee-stained and thumb-smeared stacks of Hammerhill Bond whose used, ravaged appearance proclaimed at once their author's (or agent's) terrible desperation and McGraw-Hill's function as publisher of last resort.†   (source)
  • In the hierarchy of schools, teachers are the most expendable of creatures, the fauna of classrooms who can be replaced as easily as lightbulbs.†   (source)
  • I left school early one day in November, for the supreme commanders in the educational hierarchy were clamoring for some form or document from Mrs. Brown.†   (source)
  • Skimberry was the maintenance man of the Bluffton district and because of a decree emanating from the high echelons of the educational hierarchy, Zeke was designated as the official guardian of my boat.†   (source)
  • The higher their position in the hierarchy, the deeper their resentment.†   (source)
  • But the problems of perpetuating a hierarchical society go deeper than this.†   (source)
  • Who wields power is not important, provided that the hierarchical structure remains always the same.†   (source)
  • In the long run, a hierarchical society was only possible on a basis of poverty and ignorance.†   (source)
  • But this would provide only the economic and not the emotional basis for a hierarchical society.†   (source)
  • Attempts made by the authorities to redress this leveling-out by some sort of hierarchy-the idea was to confer a decoration on guards who died in the exercise of their duties-came to nothing.†   (source)
  • …and paradoxical, with its atmosphere at once fatal and languorous, at once feminine and steel-hard—this grim humorless yokel out of a granite heritage where even the houses, let alone clothing and conduct, are built in the image of a jealous and sadistic Jehovah, put suddenly down in a place whose denizens had created their All-Powerful and His supporting hierarchy-chorus of beautiful saints and handsome angels in the image of their houses and personal ornaments and voluptuous lives.†   (source)
  • Every new political theory, by whatever name it called itself, led back to hierarchy and regimentation.†   (source)
  • It eats up the surplus of consumable goods, and it helps to preserve the special mental atmosphere that a hierarchical society needs.†   (source)
  • In the past the need for a hierarchical form of society had been the doctrine specifically of the High.†   (source)
  • But then, if it was so absurd, why did he say the 'hierarchy'?†   (source)
  • Three years afterwards he gave new offence to Laud by publishing a pamphlet against the hierarchy.†   (source)
  • Anna Pavlovna greeted him with the nod she accorded to the lowest hierarchy in her drawing room.†   (source)
  • Round Him was an adoring hierarchy of kings, elders, and old-time Buddhas.†   (source)
  • The different ranks and hierarchies of the court are endless, and even someone who knows his way around them cannot always tell what's going to happen.†   (source)
  • I refuse to make a hierarchy of human actions and ascribe worthiness to some and ill-repute to others.†   (source)
  • Out of the dozen contradictory Zeniths which together make up the true and complete Zenith, none is so powerful and enduring yet none so unfamiliar to the citizens as the small, still, dry, polite, cruel Zenith of the William Eathornes; and for that tiny hierarchy the other Zeniths unwittingly labor and insignificantly die.†   (source)
  • Her resemblance was rather to one of John Held's flat-chested flappers than to the hierarchy of tall languid blondes who had posed for painters and novelists since before the war.†   (source)
  • One would have to lack all sense of decorum or hierarchy not to have exercised restraint in Hans Castorp's case—particularly since such sensibilities were essential to the spirit of the house.†   (source)
  • For each was as much a military calling as the other, in every sense: in asceticism and hierarchy, in obedience and Spanish sense of honor.†   (source)
  • You have a hierarchy of values; pleasure is at the bottom of the ladder, and you speak with a little thrill of self-satisfaction, of duty, charity, and truthfulness.†   (source)
  • Berma in Phedre, in the Cid; well, she's only an actress, if you like, but you know that I don't believe very much in the 'hierarchy' of the arts."†   (source)
  • One was compelled, certainly, to see the Church's hierarchy as a force for freedom, since it formed a barrier against absolute monarchy.†   (source)
  • …with my grandmother's sisters, that whenever he spoke of serious matters, whenever he used an expression which seemed to imply a definite opinion upon some important subject, he would take care to isolate, to sterilise it by using a special intonation, mechanical and ironic, as though he had put the phrase or word between inverted commas, and was anxious to disclaim any personal responsibility for it; as who should say "the 'hierarchy,' don't you know, as silly people call it."†   (source)
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