“... nothing, but between power and power. This suggests that the landscape is more restricted than it may look. Two main views of international law currently circulate. One sees the limits of state obligation as drawn by self-interest: they’re taken to encompass a limited degree of altruism by citizens towards their compatriots, but not to extend as far as the ...”

“... been a feature of his work from the beginning return with renewed force in the Pisan Cantos. He may also have been struck by the several occasions in Walden on which seasonal change provides an unrealising change in point of view: The first ice is especially interesting and perfect, being hard, dark and transparent, and affords the best opportunity that ...”

“... his views to his subject? A: I believe that one should never disclose one’s views, because it may shut off further communication. Q: Has that ever happened in your experience? A: Yes. Frequently [subjects] would ask me questions that if I answered them truthfully would shut off further communication. Q: And how did you answer them? A: I would tell ...”

“... devotion, purity and faith, and hence for a right disposition in taking communion, so that ‘I may receive not merely the sacrament of the body and blood of the Lord, but also its reality and power’ (non solum sacramentum . . . sed etiam rem et virtutem sacramentum). On this point, then, the theological contrast between externality and interiority which ...”

“... by the systematic application of the guidelines. But in determining whether this is true, it may not be the best strategy to listen only to the judges, for it should come as no surprise that judges, just like carpenters, police officers, customs officials and university professors, are hardly the best judges of the frequency and magnitude of their own ...”

“... battled with headmasters as he had earlier battled with his superior officers in the army. He too may have slept with a few people, though his autobiography probably adds the odd fictional notch to his bedpost. Then in 1959 he either collapsed, or just lay down in the classroom and decided not to move in order to see what would happen. He was dashed home with ...”

“... after 9/11, of America’s spirit of civic and national resolve; and, for neo-conservatives in May 2003, the spirit of the ‘motivating hopefulness of America’ when Bush was confidently declaring the end of the Iraq war. None of these readings is exactly wrong, but behind the idea that Whitman can be all things to all people lies a more productive ...”

“... hair, that the edges of her picture become, at times, slightly blurred. It’s true that one may occasionally feel that Dr Pyman is almost too empathetic, too closely attuned to her subject; that we are merely exchanging one kind of impressionism, or one set of symbols, for another, rather as was the case – to take a work of a very different kind ...”

“... What she felt about her war work is impossible to know, but she did it efficiently. Something may be deduced from the fact that, having been an active member of her father’s congregation and of the student Christian Union, she emerged from the war an atheist. The job of political secretary was a perfect fit for her. ‘She was really completely ...”

“... first to the franc and now to the euro – for all the control they have over their money, they may as well be in the Eurozone. For sixty years, France has kept a vigilant eye on defence policy in its former colonies and clung tenaciously to military bases. To the fury of opposition movements, it has propped up leaders it favours. Bongo père et fils were ...”

“... to forget that it happens to Mrs Moore too, who has always suffered from faintness, and who may have already been struck with the illness that will carry her away on the waves. In the cave she hears the echo, the boum that means all is nothing, and she goes mad for a moment and hits out at all around her, for she has felt the touch of something ...”

“... and logics. According to the taxonomy developed by the economic historian Fernand Braudel, they may even be opposed to each other. In Braudel’s analogy, long phases of economic history are layered one on top of another like the storeys of a house. At the bottom is ‘material life’, an opaque world of basic consumption, production and ...”

“... of his official responsibilities as president. ‘Whatever immunities a sitting president may enjoy,’ she wrote, ‘the United States has only one chief executive at a time, and that position does not confer a lifelong “get-out-of-jail-free” pass.’ In February, Trump appealed the ruling to the Supreme Court. Around the same time I received a ...”

“... Riad Salameh, the disgraced head of the central bank, after the 2019 financial collapse. Nasrallah may have been right to lead Hizbullah into politics, but his critics were right to warn that the Lebanese system would corrupt the party and chip away at his own reputation for integrity.But no decision by Nasrallah was more damaging to his party’s standing ...”

“... gun deaths and 647 mass shootings. In just two of these incidents – separated by ten days in May 2022, one at a grocery store in Buffalo, New York, the other at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas – a total of 31 people died, among them 19 children. In both cases the gunman used an AR-15-style rifle firing .223 calibre rounds.In February 2023, Barry ...”