“... peers and lawyers who have long experience of human rights cases, argued that the ordinary law of self-defence was a guide to what Israel could lawfully do, which means that, like an individual faced with a threat to their life, a state can do what it needs to do to survive. As Pannick and Macdonald put it, ‘criminal law understands that if people, in ...”

“... people and movements by their position on globalisation. Her use of this term is, she admits, ‘self-consciously anachronistic’. Her interwar ‘globalists’ were often internationalists seeking to promote transnational regulation or co-operation; her ‘anti-globalists’, too, identified as nationalists or socialists (or, worse, National ...”

“... 1960s was among other things a prophetic critique of today’s brutally philistine universities, self-avowed service stations for the capitalist economy.If some theory had revolutionary implications, it was because it pressed that soulless logic through to the humanities themselves. They were no longer to be seen as a preserve of personal value and spiritual ...”

“... Review addressed itself to ‘serious, thoughtful men of all schools, classes and principles’, self-consciously distancing itself from the openly partisan character of most leading periodicals of the time. It made something of a fetish of its political, religious and financial independence, while taking evident pride in its hard-headedness. It ...”

“... his life and craft recruited and then annihilated in the course of someone else’s exercise in self-negation? It’s one thing to erase yourself from time, but another to disappear someone else along with you. What happens to injustice when nobody ever knows of it?All these questions are at stake when we address ourselves to the idea of the end times. Does ...”

“... anyway, our dragon sits in style atop a glowing treasure-stack, and with the cool, expansive self- possession of his kind, grins extravagantly back at the blaze that enriches ...”

“... leaving Wittenberg for a court grown purulent? He found himself unemployed, at best the self-appointed professional mourner. Offstage, Poland is racked with unrest. Four centuries later, Andrzej Wajda films Hamlet in gabled Cracow, where Faust (real and imagined) plied his dreadful trade; His legend, Hamlet’s, Bruno’s and that of Poland lives ...”

“... us. Something says nonstopare you hereare your ancestorsreal do you have abody do you haveyr self inmind can you see yrhands – have you broken itthe thread – try to feel thepull of the otherend – make sureboth ends arealive when u pull totry to re-enterhere. A ravenhas arrived while Iam taking all thisdown. In-corporate me itsquawks. It hopscloser ...”

“... too non-specific for relevance. It was November when I made these notes, then in absentminded self-disgust set out on the path from Crail, and by sunset, at four, could neither return nor make Kingsbarns before dark. Though no one knew where I was, real danger lay elsewhere. No cows even. Just sleepless fields staring skyward and the firth prowling ...”

“... the greatest compliment anyone could give me’ – and it appears that in most respects Gould was self-taught.Despite his gifts, Gould wasn’t pushed as a child prodigy. His first serious concert engagement came in 1947, when, at the age of 14, he was asked to play Beethoven’s G major Concerto with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra. It is typical of the way ...”

“... a drama not between generations, or between opinions, but within a wounded, deceived or conflicted self. The presence of a mother would breach the essential privacy of the emerging self, the uncertain moral consciousness on which the novel comes to depend. The conspiracy in the novel is not between a mother and her ...”

“... I’ve been collecting the stuff, fairly omnivorously, the past five or six years, but always with self-doubt and a certain ethical uneasiness. Go away a little closer, Idiot Boy. I’ve got all the recent books on the subject. But reading books – and there have been droves over the past decade – seems only to deepen the confusion. Witness Create, a glossy ...”

“... of Buddha) together define the breadth of the perceived cultural malaise and the role of self-conscious primitivism as plasma: ‘self-conscious’ because it was the product of educated, independent, ego-driven artistic choice rather than a selfless village artisan’s efforts to meet the religious/ceremonial ...”

“... four inches high. ‘Glad you could make it. Glad in more ways than one,’ said Martin in his self-consciously deep voice. ‘Usually I drop down to the floor on a thread of cotton at about this time and start for the kitchen in the hope of getting a drink by dusk. But I’ve lost the thread. Lost the thread in more ways than one, I thought, Martin, old ...”

“... height of the neo-Jacobitism [sic], a Romantic-Decadent movement which reacted against cynical and self-interested influences in … contemporary politics’. No wonder it was still going. From Wikipedia I learned that it was one of the less militant groups to have revered the martyr-king at that time: in 1893, a ‘considerable detachment of police’, sent ...”