The Reformation, stressing the Bible, the catechism, and the hymnbook, bent the literature of childhood toward the didactic, the monitory, and the pious.
Purity imaginatively re-creates several monitory narratives of human impurity and its consequences in a spectacular display of poetic skill: the Flood, the destruction of Sodom, and Belshazzar's Feast.
So we will sit like this" — Walter, who was wearing dark-blue pants and a dark-purple wool coat, spread her knees, like the stick figure in the monitory poster on the subway — "because a man will go like that.
There is even a Twitter account, @AvoidComments, which issues monitory statements: "You wouldn't listen to someone named Bonerman26 in real life.
But I have always regarded the characters on the "Up" series as a monitory advance team, like older siblings, forever one step ahead of me on the path through adolescence, the onset of adulthood, and, now, the long, narrowing years of middle age.
I once wrote a novel that was centered on this monitory stainless icon of my childhood, I once invested the Arch and the counties that surround it with mystery and soul, but this morning I have no subjectivity.
Laura Testvalley, Nan's monitory but winning governess, whose descriptive adjectives "small" and "brown" suggest a direct descent from Jane Eyre, and whose odd name the author — she tells us in "A Backward Glance" — found herself helpless to change, arrives in Saratoga, and in next to no time, it seems, Conchita is married to Lord Richard Marable, a younger son of the Marquess of Brightlingsea.
The party authorities are dead opposed to monitory democracy (jiandushi minzhu), in the richest sense of free and fair general elections combined with ongoing public monitoring of its power by independent watchdogs.
Yet with the overall size of Internet traffic doubling every 5.32 years, digital media usage now routinely nurtures the spirit of monitory democracy.
Within the China labyrinth the spirit of monitory democracy is alive and well.
This is for obvious reasons: although the dystopia is called "One State", and the ideological overlord is glossed as Taylor (the American guru of the "Efficiency Movement" and father of the time and motion study), there can be no mistaking We as anything but a monitory portrait of what Russia was likely to become under the soulless inspiration of dialectical materialism.
