Shaped by the codes duello, the Italian duel was an elaborate performance in which civility and justice played equal parts.
Although by the codes of this century she seems brazenly androgynous, in her own time she was quite à la mode.
Johnny Boy, the character played by Robert De Niro in "Mean Streets," represents an anarchic, disruptive criminality unconstrained by the codes and customs of organized crime.
But the gods should maintain some dignity, she believes, and at least attempt to live by the codes they are supposed to be espousing.
Mr. Kinnear, who was a vivid Hamlet for Mr. Hytner, here makes brilliant use of the anonymity allowed by the codes of military conduct.
Now almost 60, Goldstein remains fascinated by the codes and beliefs she absorbed in her Orthodox girlhood and continues to transmit her defiance and doubts to her characters.
It was predictable not because of anything she had or had not done but because of the kind of man that Viktor Yanukovich, the president of Ukraine, is: thuggish, vengeful and guided by the codes of the underworld.
Such legislation typically falls outside the scope of the traditional civil codes, even when it touches on questions concerning contract or delict areas of law that were traditionally governed by the codes.
Relativism therefore deprives us of any means of raising moral objections against horrendous social customs, provided that those customs are approved by the codes of the societies in which they exist.
But in her flight gear — a jumpsuit or jodhpurs ("breeks"); flat, lace-up knee boots; a white shirt and a man's tie; a bomber jacket or a leather coat — she seems, at least by the codes of this century, flagrantly androgynous.
