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Across the line of the vessel's keel. Across the direction of a vessel's head. Across her cable.
Pronunciation /əˈTHwôrt//əˈθwɔrt/
preposition
- 1From side to side of; across.
- ‘I glance in the mirror and find, to my disappointment, that she's still athwart the bike.’
- ‘The old men pose athwart a water wheel.’
- ‘While Matsya lay athwart the route from the northern lands to the ports on the western coast, it was not a place of great enterprise.’
- ‘‘We're so happy this restaurant is here,’ confided another matriarch when I inquired about the twisty little phyllo-pastry purse athwart her salad of Asian pear and gleaming field greens.’
- ‘The site benefited from centuries of Indian custom in that it lay athwart an old Indian portage between Lakes Pontchartrain and Borgne and the river, the trail that now terminated as Rue de l' Hôpital.’
- ‘To the south, athwart the mountain's lower slope, was a maze of byways and ramshackle housing for the native population.’
- ‘Grenada lay athwart vital US sea lanes, thus threatening all transatlantic trade.’
- ‘The Island of St. Germain, the objective of the action, is a low mound of earth surrounded by swamps and was athwart the division zone of advance.’
- ‘Appleby, the county town, suffered greatly from Scottish raids, since it was athwart an easy line of advance across Stainmore towards Durham and York.’
- ‘But to place that tribute athwart the vista of the mall would be the act of a country that no longer understands its own history.’
- ‘He took his hand off the hilt of his dagger at last, though still his eyes were fixed athwart the city.’
- ‘The solar flares and the corona of the sun danced athwart the planet's silhouette.’
- 2In opposition to; counter to.‘these statistics run sharply athwart conventional presumptions’
- ‘At a time when America's elites said that the United States was in an irreversible decline, and the rest of us should just get used to it, Ronald Reagan stood athwart what was then considered the tide of history and said: ‘No.’’
- ‘She tells me they're giving an award to the senator because he stands athwart conventional wisdom on many issues.’
- ‘Unfortunately, without the ‘Language Police’ standing athwart language liberalization, every usage would slip into the dictionary.’
- ‘Like other empires of the past century, it has chosen to live not prudently, in peace and prosperity, but as a massive military power athwart an angry, resistant globe.’
- ‘At some points in history, the role of conservatism has been to be reactive and to stand athwart history yelling ‘stop’, Rove says.’
- ‘Rather, the dominant strain of principled conservatism has stood athwart history yelling, ‘Slow down!’’
- ‘When it comes to its language, its cinema, and now its music, France has long stood athwart history crying ‘Stop!’’
- ‘Together they stood athwart any measure that smacked of political centralization.’
- ‘It pretends to be pro-gay but stands athwart the path to full equality and social acceptance, crying, ‘No, no, don't go there’.’
- ‘In any case, the belief that memorials should endure, and serve as warning and beacon to successive generations, runs athwart the commitment to a particular segment of the public and its expressive needs.’
- ‘They can, however, have happier endings once enough people stand athwart the system, and yell stop.’
- ‘That was part of the necessary pattern, as was that he would stand athwart her when that time arrived.’
adverb
- 1Across from side to side; transversely.‘one table running athwart was all the room would hold’transversely, crossways, sideways, athwart, on the cross
- 2So as to be perverse or contradictory.‘our words ran athwart and we ended up at cross purposes’
- ‘Ultimately though, what is more intriguing about this work is the manner in which it runs athwart of some contemporary photography to instead de-emphasize overt expressivity.’
- ‘As Harry made clear, being different meant neither better nor inferior, but athwart.’
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athwart
/əˈTHwôrt//əˈθwɔrt/Are You Learning English? Here Are Our Top English Tips
Conservatives pride themselves on resisting change, which is as it should be. Misattributed. Marijuana never kicks down your door in the middle of the night. Marijuana never locks up sick and dying people, does not suppress medical research, does not peek in bedroom windows. Even if one takes every reefer madness allegation of the prohibitionists at face value, marijuana prohibition has done far more harm to far more people than marijuana ever could., as quoted in Busted: Stone Cowboys, Narco-lords, and Washington's War on Drugs (2002) edited by Mike Gray. They told me if I voted for, he would get us into a war in Vietnam.
Well, I voted for Goldwater and that's what happened. This appears to be a variant of a widely disseminated Republican joke with no published attribution of its authorship to Buckley. Variant: They told me if I voted for Goldwater in 1964, that we'd have more war and higher prices. Well, I did, and we do., as quoted in The Condition of Republicanism (1968) by Nick Thimmesch, p. 65.
They told me if I voted for Goldwater we'd be at war in Vietnam in six months — and I did and we were. Anonymous voter, as quoted in It All Comes Back to Me Now: Character Portraits from the 'Golden Apple' (2001) by William O'Shaughnessy, p. 85. Buckley did say this on the Firing Line episode 'Vietnam: Pull Out?
According to the transcript, he says '.if someone told me that if I voted for Goldwater, we would escalate the war, I did and we have.' Quotes about William F. William F. Was one of the great personalities of the United States of the last 50 years. He was the same in private as in public: urbane, humorous and always cordial.
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His humanity and gentlemanliness and unfailing courtesy, as well as his wit and erudition, enabled him to take positions that affronted the liberal conventional wisdom without attracting the venomous antagonism of its leaders. His close friends included such contrary spirits as, and some of the Kennedys and Rockefellers. in.
William F. Buckley was more than a journalist or commentator. He was the indisputable leader of the conservative movement that laid the groundwork for the Reagan Revolution. Every Republican owes him a debt of gratitude for his tireless efforts on behalf of our party and nation., in. We learned from our parents to prefer the good man to the brilliant man. It is a sacred humanity in people we respect.
Our compassion is earned in the quality of the human condition. People are surprised to realize that we, princelings of Dame Fortune, as they feel us to be, tread the same hard interior landscape. And it may be this that comes through, that fascinates, because we do not presume, 'Come, let us lead you,' but, instead, petition, 'Come, our philosophy is your way, the human way, and it is you who will and must lead yourselves'. Fergus Reid Buckley, his younger brother, as quoted in. America has lost one of its finest writers and thinkers. Bill Buckley was one of the great founders of the modern conservative movement.
He brought conservative thought into the political mainstream, and helped lay the intellectual foundation for America's victory in the Cold War and for the conservative movement that continues to this day., in an official. William F. Once made the famous pronouncement that he would rather be ruled by the first 2,000 names in the Boston phonebook than by the combined faculties of Harvard and MIT. Now that we are ruled by the combined faculties of Harvard and MIT, you can see what he meant., ', Commentary Mar 1, 1997. Had there been no Buckley, there would likely have been no Reagan administration, no Morning in America, no “Tear down this wall,” and no Cold War triumph for liberty and the West.It may sometimes be confusing, what with all the intramural squabbling among libertarian conservatives, neoconservatives, paleoconservatives, and the like, to know exactly what “conservatism” stands for these days.
But Buckley more than anyone made clear that there are things it would not stand for., in. Bill was responsible for rejecting the and the other kooks who passed off anti-Semitism or some such as conservatism. Without Bill — if he had decided to become an academic or a businessman or something else — without him, there probably would be no respectable conservative movement in this country., as quoted in. Even if you disagreed sharply with his positions, which were delivered in his slightly nasal tones, you knew that you had to do your homework before you took him on in any kind of debate. He was a font of wisdom, and he knew how to wield the language like a knight's sword. Marshall Loeb, in. He was really a quintessential leader of the conservative movement not just in New York but in the nation.
There are no other Bill Buckleys now on the scene. On a personal level he was a very warm and kind individual.
New York Conservative Party Chairman Mike Long, as quoted in. No other actor on earth can project simultaneous hints that he is in the act of playing Commodore of the Yacht Club, Savonarola, the nice prep-school kid from next door, and the snows of yesteryear., Harper's magazine (1967), as quoted in. You didn’t just part the Red Sea — you rolled it back, dried it up and left exposed, for all the world to see, the naked desert that is statism. And then, as if that weren’t enough, you gave the world something different, something in its weariness it desperately needed, the sound of laughter and the sight of the rich, green uplands of freedom., in an address at the National Review’s 30th anniversary (1985) as quoted in. Buckley was conservative before conservative was cool. He was brilliant, Ivy League, handsome and very, very, VERY articulate. And he was, well, so very self confident.
All of his talent and style combined to rebirth the moribund conservative movement in this country. From his founding of the National Review to the day he stepped down from moderating his signature talk show, “Firing Line.” It is fair to say that, and all owe their place in American history to the man who once famously wrote that he didn’t know anyone smarter than himself. In a way, it’s sad that people like and are today’s mouthpieces for conservatism. What a far leap they are from the quick witted and smart Buckley. I think it’s fair to say that even Buckley’s ideological enemies admired him and respected him.
That’s because Buckley was not a hate monger; he was a serious-minded person who made reasoned and rational arguments for his cause. No apologies to Limbaugh, Savage or their listeners and adherents — they are no substitute for Buckley’s class and intellectualism. Ward Sloane in. Before there was there was, and before there was Barry, there was National Review, and before there was National Review there was Bill Buckley with a spark in his mind., as quoted in. Jeffrey Hart suggested that Buckley was torn between his patrician roots and the populist temper of the movement he championed. An echt Burkean with a snob’s disdain for the contemporary Republican Party, Hart hinted at a road not taken, in which a Buckley-led conservative intelligentsia might have labored to infiltrate and convert the liberal-leaning Eastern Establishment, rather than making common cause with Sunbelt populists, Reagan Democrats and other faintly embarrassing constituencies.But it’s doubtful Buckley himself harbored such fantasies. From the beginning of his career, he seemed to grasp that any successful right-of-center politics in America would be populist, or it wouldn’t be at all.
In post-New Deal America, with the welfare state firmly entrenched and the governing class squarely in the statist corner, conservatism’s obvious constituency was middle-class and put-upon, and its obvious purpose was to defend its constituents’ folkways and pocketbooks against sophisticates and social engineers. The establishment was solidly liberal, so the right needed to be anti-establishment; the alternative was the sidelines, or the fever swamps. The previous generation of conservative thinkers had chosen alienation, resentment, paranoia. Buckley chose populism — and with it,.
Ross Douthat, ', New York Times (January 16, 2009).External links.
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