And newspaper articles and broadsides helped spread this sense of involvement, urging the colonists to avoid luxuries like imported silks or English rum, and instead people should be virtuous and they should wear homespun clothing made of cloth that could be made in the colonies, and they should drink whiskey and beer and cider that could be made in the colonies.
It is exciting to imagine how these Silk Road riders rode off, some to make money and others not, with a great sense of necessity — an urge to be a part of a race into the unknown — an urge shared with animals.
But the sense of a symbolic urge can still be felt in her most abstract works, although obliquely.
And their behavior may derive from a sense of morality — an urge to serve the greater good — that could shed light on the origins of morality in humans.
There might have been a sense of powerlessness, an urge to exert the ultimate control over his family life with tools he understood and could hold in his hands.
For a Jets fan, this coming Sunday — Super Bowl roman numeral whatever, Patriots vs. Giants — well, there are no words to describe the depth of despair, the crushing sense of futility, the urge to re-migrate to Europe and start rooting for bicycle racers.
By Adam Gopnik January 30 , 2012For a Jets fan, this coming Sunday — Super Bowl roman numeral whatever, Patriots vs. Giants — well, there are no words to describe the depth of despair, the crushing sense of futility, the urge to re-migrate to Europe and start rooting for bicycle racers.
At one point in "The Sense of Style," Pinker urges us to follow the example of his novelist wife.
Showing his sense of practicality, he urged all countries to assess their particular financial needs and act accordingly.
