I unreservedly accept the decision of the democratic process".
Paintings unreservedly accepted by one generation of scholars as the work of so-and-so inspire the next generation with doubts, while others are flatly rejected.
Nonetheless, Erasmus remained Catholic, with the office of the papacy — regardless of the competence and integrity of its occupants — being a deciding factor: the papacy guaranteed a truth he unreservedly accepted.
"My own attitude is that we must unreservedly accept this modern civilization of the West because we need it to solve our most pressing problems, the problems of poverty, ignorance, disease and corruption.
In his methodology for emancipating China from such a perceived dismal condition Hu Shih reflected a typical modern post-colonial mentality when he said: "My own attitude is that we must unreservedly accept this modern civilization of the West because we need it to solve our most pressing problems, the problems of poverty, ignorance, disease and corruption.
This cheap thrill becomes problematic when we unreservedly accept the larger narrative it upholds: an economy and social system we believe to be based on some kind of "luck of the draw," and various Higher Powers sporadically granting wishes as they see fit.
Metropolitan police chief Sir Bernard Hogapologisedologised "unreservedly" after accepting that the force's "actions and omissions" had put the family of an innocent woman, shot and paralysed by police in 1985, through "years of suffering".
"It is hoped that with this decision, the Office of the Mayor is now protected, my unreserved apology accepted and my fellow citizens, and that the focus can now be placed fully on solving the murder of a visitor to our shores".
I have tasted probably 60 vintages of Petrus over the years, though, and accept unreservedly the reports that this two-year-old is a very great wine indeed.
