In it, a prostitute traveling by coach is companionably treated by her fellow French passengers, who are anxious to share her provisions of food, but then a German officer stops the coach and refuses to let it proceed until he has possessed her; the other passengers induce her to satisfy him, and then ostracize her for the rest of the journey.
Western states condition aid on democratization, strongly condemn and ostracize (some) nondemocratic regimes, and sometimes ostensibly intervene coercively with a view to establishing multiparty constitutions in certain states.
The Wormwoods dote on Michael, who is as beastly as they are, but they ostracize Matilda from the family circle, because she reads books; reading is an internal activity, and what's the point in that when there's a big, wide world out there to defile?
There is justification for this reluctance to utter unpopular opinions: the cost of utterance is too heavy; it can ruin a man in his business, it can lose him his friends, it can subject him to public insult and abuse, it can ostracize his unoffending family, and make his house a despised and unvisited solitude.
(The language lesson and some of Patrick's words — "ostracize," "peripatetic," "defunct" — are memorialized in the 2003 "Eurydice," a retelling of the Orpheus myth from his inamorata's point of view, in which the dead Father, reunited with his daughter, tries to re-teach her lost vocabulary).
One line of objection to the White House's effort to ostracize Fox News is that Presidential wars against the press are always futile and self-defeating.
They also allow her to police the movement and ostracize defectors.
Beijing's thirst for oil is likely to slacken this year, leaving it some room to purchase less from Iran without openly endorsing efforts to ostracize Tehran.
The forgiveness step, which has been in the works for many months, would help clear the way for Russia to make new investments in North Korea — a development that runs counter to American-led efforts to economically ostracize the North over its expanding arsenal of nuclear weapons.
One adulterous couple, knowing their congregation will ostracize them if they go public with their liaison, reach an impasse when it comes to finding a new church.
New York City should help and protect the vulnerable people in its midst, not use its police force to ostracize and punish them.
