While there may exist modern forms of entertainment that support Plato's view (e.g. soap operas, which purport to show us real life and instead just serve as a buttress between us and the lives we could be living), I am on a personal crusade to use theatre as a vehicle for getting to the very nub of reality.
These tremendous frontline losses required ever-more troops to be fed into the fighting; for instance, a freshly reinforced battalion of the US 28th Infantry Division was immediately thrown into direct assaults against Aachen to buttress the depleted US 1st Infantry Division during the final stages of the battle on 18 21 October.
Years after the great events of 1965, Kennedy-Johnson national security adviser McGeorge Bundy reflected that it would have been wise to end the Vietnam war at that time, with the "virus" virtually destroyed and the primary domino solidly in place, buttressed by other US-backed dictatorships throughout the region.
Temporally, Zhuangzi's skepticism is buttressed by reminding us of our own past experiences of learning, of acquiring new gestalts, of realizing that what we had considered the way, was subject to reconsideration and improvement.
Creating a dialogue with people who espouse opposing ideology helps us understand not only our position, but forces us to consider, buttress, and defend our own ideals as well.
She was treated with osteosynthesis using dual buttress plates.
To buttress his case, he would have us believe that Mr. Brown's predecessor, James Lee Witt, took the opposite view and did not approve the emergency plan.
"A check from Albany doesn't come from Albany, it comes from us," he said to buttress his argument that more state aid was no solution.
Losses have delayed the quest for new cures, demoralized the research workforce, and left us with few options to buttress a starving infrastructure that can no longer rely on clinical margins to counterbalance inadequacies in research dollars".
The Republican view of fighting the war on terrorism is that rather than ask all of us to make a small sacrifice to weaken our foes and buttress our troops, we should ask only a few of us to make the ultimate sacrifice.
