Confucianism

in a sentence

The Confucian parables warn of it.†  (source) Robert Ludlum, The Bourne Supremacy, 1986

"It could also be a throwback to Confucian principles of family," GaoLing added, "a wish to return to the time of emperors."†  (source) Amy Tan, The Bonesetter's Daughter, 2001

I also understood that two Confucian ideals ruled our lives.†  (source) Lisa See, Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, 2005

Jim's mother had come from South Korea—a grandfather had served as a minister to the last Korean king—and she had studied at Union Theological Seminary with Reinhold Niebuhr and Paul Tillich and become a Confucian scholar, and ended up for many years a housewife in Muscatine.†  (source) Tracy Kidder, Mountains Beyond Mountains, 2003

The wife should obey the husband; this, according to the Three Bonds of Confucianism.†  (source) Gish Jen, Typical American, 1991

My father, a Confucian of high order, would commend me for finally honoring that which is wholly evident.†  (source) Chang-rae Lee, Native Speaker, 1995

In China, comparably, where the humanistic, moralizing force of Confucianism has fairly emptied the old myth forms of their primal grandeur, the official mythology is today a clutter of anecdotes about the sons and daughters of provincial officials, who, for serving their community one way or another, were elevated by their grateful beneficiaries to the dignity of local gods.†  (source) Joseph Campbell, The Hero With a Thousand Faces, 1949

The Confucian replied, "That is my trouble, I cannot find it."†  (source) Joseph Campbell, The Hero With a Thousand Faces, 1949

Then the old man, sitting erect, said, "Take me to the Confucian temple," and there he sat, erect and calm, and there was that in his calmness which allowed no question, so that Wang started forward as he saw others do, although he had no faintest knowledge of where the Confucian temple stood.†  (source) Pearl S. Buck, The Good Earth, 1931

There were also, it appeared, a Taoist and a Confucian temple further along the valley.†  (source) James Hilton, Lost Horizon, 1933

We will follow Confucian instruction as found in The Women's Classic by behaving as good women.†  (source) Lisa See, Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, 2005

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) Chang-rae Lee, Native Speaker, 1995

The Confucian understood and departed in peace.†  (source) Joseph Campbell, The Hero With a Thousand Faces, 1949