While I admire the spirit of his direct invocation of pragmatic polytheism as a complement to affirming spiritual life as enacting a range of amusing and artistic content and modes of personalized fantasy, poesy and idiosyncratic expression, Rorty advances only the barest invitation to investigate just what happens for people who live serious and dynamically engaging spiritual lives.
Janet Ainsworth, previously a defence attorney and now an academic at the Seattle University School of Law, points out that, in order to get a lawyer, suspects have to use a "direct, unmediated and unhedged invocation", such as: "I want a lawyer and I won't talk to you without one".
It reflects the biblical idea that the name of God is sacred and that its invocation implies a direct meeting with the divine.
The water would also have been a direct allusion to Dr. King's "Dream" speech and his frequent invocation of the prophet Amos ("let justice run down like waters... ......)... ......
Unless there are additional circumstances unknown to the public--which Senator Coburn then has a duty to reveal to investigators, to justify his invocation of medical confidentiality--his assertion of a professional duty to withhold information is a direct assault upon the genuine privileges and responsibilities of medical providers.
The action of the poem begins after an introduction, an invocation, and a dedication to King Sebastian.
We also used in our study the two unit test case metrics that we introduced in our previous work (Toure et al. [2014]): TINVOK: This metric counts the number of direct method invocations in a test class.
"We always take for granted a little bit the women," states Monsieur Itier, who recently directed The Invocation, featuring such luminaries as Deepak Chopra and Desmond Tutu.
This astringent solo show, sensitively and deftly directed by Lia Williams and performed with disconcerting candour by Leanne Best, is less a play than a succinct invocation of the tragic cycle of violence and revenge that brings to mind McGuinness's best work as a noted translator of the Greeks.
This is a kind of machismo, an invocation of hierarchy for hierarchy's sake.
