All 16 Uses
obligation
in
Going After Cacciato
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- I mean, look, the man's got certain obligations, right?†
Chpt 26
- Who runs from civil and military obligation?†
Chpt 33
- Guilty perhaps of hanging on, of letting myself be dragged along, of falling victim to gravity and obligation and events, but not—not?†
Chpt 39
- Did she refuse to run for the same reasons he refused—obligation, family, the land, friends, home?†
Chpt 39
- Guilty if you fulfilled old obligations, guilty if you abandoned them.†
Chpt 44
- Do not be deceived by false obligation.†
Chpt 44
- For what is true obligation?†
Chpt 44
- Is it not the obligation to pursue a life at peace with itself?†
Chpt 44
- The amplification system whines, and he moves back slightly: "Friends, I don't pretend to be expert on matters of obligation, either moral or contractual, but I do know when I feel obliged.†
Chpt 44
- Obligation is more than a claim imposed on us; it is a personal sense of indebtedness.
Chpt 44 *obligation = duty
- My obligation is to people, not to principle or politics or justice.†
Chpt 44
- More than any positive sense of obligation, I confess that what dominates is the dread of abandoning all that I hold dear.†
Chpt 44
- Perhaps now you can see why I stress the importance of viewing obligations as a relationship between people, not between one person and some impersonal idea or principle.†
Chpt 44
- Within the context of our obligations to other people.†
Chpt 44
- Even in imagination we must be true to our obligations, for, even in imagination, obligation cannot be outrun.†
Chpt 44
- Even in imagination we must be true to our obligations, for, even in imagination, obligation cannot be outrun.†
Chpt 44
Definitions:
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(1)
(obligation) a duty
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)