The Americans, Cadillac and Lincoln, have abandoned word names for letters.
The paintings also employ a device that Hockney would quickly abandon: words, which appear like coded messages.
Often throughout the album, Pierce will effectively abandon words for strings of wordless scat passages that serve to throw the focus back on to the melodic hooks – which, fortunately, are the band's most agreeable aspect.
In this regard, consider Hume's assertion that, if we are unsure about the meaning of a word, "we need but enquire, from what impression is that supposed idea derived?" (Hume [1748] 1975, 22), and his recommendation that we abandon words that lack such derivations.
In the constant attempt to be cool and stand out, DJs incorporate numbers with letter, mix random words together or simply abandon words altogether, mostly just leading to confusion.
So perhaps the time has come to move beyond the word-focus of Rabbinic Judaism - not abandoning words but reintegrating Wheat and Word, the Food that comes into our mouths and the words of Torah that come out of our mouths.
By the time Mr. Rather was leaving the "CBS Evening News" in 2005, Mr. Cronkite had abandoned mincing words.
There was a time when our nation eloquently wrote and spoke in support of the basic rights of humans yet we have consistently abandoned those words, time after time, action after action, century after century.
Both companies have abandoned the word "diet" and traded it in for more upbeat words: "living" and "lifestyle".
