All 9 Uses of
establish
in
The Sunlight Dialogues
- …and heavy at fifty, his head tipped back, looking through the lower halves of his thick, dark-tinted steel-rimmed glasses at the newly delivered corn chopper, or the twenty-year-old wired-together baler, and the look on his face and in his stance was like a child's, solemn, deeply satisfied, detached as a sunlit mystical vision from the dying tamaracks, tumble-down barns, and the high, orange-yellow old brick house that labored in vain to establish for Ben Hodge his spiritual limits.†
Chpt 3
- The king rules, establishes simple laws and so on, but he judges by what we would call whim--though it isn't whim, of course: it's the whole complex of his experience and intuition as a man trained and culturally established as finally responsible.†
Chpt 7
- The king rules, establishes simple laws and so on, but he judges by what we would call whim--though it isn't whim, of course: it's the whole complex of his experience and intuition as a man trained and culturally established as finally responsible.
Chpt 7established = set in place
- At best the lawyer established a precedent: a man sentenced to life in prison instead of the chair because of "extenuating emotional circumstances.†
Chpt 8
- No sooner were the words established in his mind than his belly closed tight and sour around the thought of his uncle.
Chpt 8 *established = created
- At the age of fifty-one he'd established a boys' camp, had risked bankruptcy for it, stamping his troubled image into the Catskill Mountains: a huge stone lodge, a chapel, cabins, a long white dock and boathouses.†
Chpt 11
- The proper place of intellect, then, is to establish the cultural norms--build the highway, so to speak, down which lovers can unthinkingly speed.†
Chpt 11
- The idea of pressures--order establishing itself that way--as if society were a pond in a field, where natural balance comes about by itself--so many tadpoles, so many water bugs, so many thises, so many thats--that is to say …†
Chpt 13
- SUNLIGHT: The poet sets up two parallel scenes--one at the beginning of the first tablet, the other at the end of the eleventh tablet--as a frame which symbolically establishes the futility of the quest.†
Chpt 15
Definition:
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(establish as in: establish a positive tone) create, start, or set in [a] place