Western classical music pushed harmony to the limits of density and dissonance, shattered it into the splinters of atonality, then gingerly and self-consciously rehabilitated it, treating it as arbitrary while grudgingly recognizing its evocative powers.
In the introduction to his famous Hindi grammar book (1875), Rev. S. H. Kellogg grudgingly recognized the predominance in practice of 'that variety of Hindí which agrees in grammatical form with the Urdú' and which 'has also often been termed kharí bolí'.
(Even the People's Front of Judea grudgingly recognized this last point).
However, taking myself away from that scene, watching the characters and applying my own life's experience participating in and around the violence of war, I grudgingly recognize and must accept the futility of such violence.
The kids, I had to grudgingly acknowledge, were all right.
Tyng's contribution to Kahn's development has long been recognized, if grudgingly, but Lesser portrays their early projects as collaborations between equals.
Grudgingly, you know: "You're OK".
Still, Molitor -- the one man in uniform the autograph-seeking fan recognized without peeking at his cards -- explained grudgingly that the opportunities for teams with lower payrolls to win a title are rare.
That role was recognized by church and government authorities alike; doubtless sometimes grudgingly as the wanted escaped harsh punishments.
I say grudgingly, because violence and revenge is such a part of our identity and our culture that I am loathe to give it up, I am afraid to move on, and to recognize the myth of redemptive violence, as exactly that, a myth constructed primarily for the purposes of national, ethnic, sectarian or religious hegemony, dominance and absolution.
