In most matters, he reiterated Calvin's views, though with greater stress on ecclesiastical discipline and rigid obedience to authority.
His broad human sympathies, robust curiosity, narrative appetite, and eclectic taste--these qualities, in Rothstein's view, were mere camouflage for rigid obedience to Marxist categories of analysis.
A rigid disciplinarian, he exacted only the strict obedience from his subordinates which he rendered to his superiors.
Instead, he transferred deftly his comic skills into a dramatic setting as his character liberated pupils formerly rigid with obedience.
Finally, rejection, another negative practice, is characterized by hostility and neglect, rigid discipline, obedience demanding, physical and verbal punishment.
Only that Jew who was capable of hearing the divine voice of revelation speaking and commanding through a particular law or practice, could relate to such a law or practice as an integral, meaningful part of her Jewish life, rather than as an obsolete ritual demanding rigid, rote obedience.
As fans of the show have seen over the past few seasons, the Romans were merciless to slaves who stepped out of line -- and in fact, the drama has gone to great pains to establish that the entire society depended on rigid oppression and the obedience of a vast army of slaves.
His furious insistence on his pupil's obedience becomes more rigid, even as his speeches about speech lose all semblance of logic, and the play concludes with an explosion of violence that stills laughter for good.
Pimps crush runaway girls with a mix of violence and affection, degradation and gifts, and then require absolute obedience to a rigid code: the girl cannot look the pimp in the eye, call him by his name, or keep any cash.
They also differed from those citizen-soldiers who disliked the rigid chains of command and unquestioning obedience expected in the services and who returned as fast as possible to civilian life.
Those who fought against the assimilationist tide of the 19th Century and continued to devote themselves to Jewish law, in Rosenzweig's eyes, transformed the living Torah into a rigid set of laws and practices requiring zealous obedience.
