Verb (used with object) : to eschew evil. From Dictionary.com.
The pursuance of stability and peace require the eschewal of zero sum politics in Africa. From Wordnik.com. [SPEECH DELIVERED BY Z PALLO JORDAAN - ANC MP DURING THE DEBATE ON THE PRESIDENT'S STATE OF THE NATION ADDRESS] Reference
Finally, Wurdalak is an odd vampire film, beginning with its eschewal of the very term "vampire" in favor of one less familiar. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-11-29] Reference
This is directly related to Wittgenstein's eschewal of the logical form or of any a-priori generalization that can be discovered or made in philosophy. From Wordnik.com. [Ludwig Wittgenstein] Reference
Now that the denomination he criticized is in the news, perhaps Bobby could elaborate on his view about the Episcopalian Church's eschewal of "inconvenient morality". From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-09-01] Reference
This swift pace and the resulting eschewal of sentimentality are part of the pleasure of Skeletons at the Feast, but I wish we could have paused a little longer at one or two of these moments. From Wordnik.com. [An Amazon.com Books Blog featuring news, reviews, interviews and guest author blogs.] Reference
Our country understood immediately the revolutionary possibilities contained in that situations and, as eloquent proof of our complete eschewal of dogmatism, we viewed what was happening as something positive and we supported it. From Wordnik.com. [CASTRO SPEECH TO WFDY, IUS YOUTH ON SOLIDARITY] Reference
Domestic propaganda thus makes very clear that nothing is to be expected from ongoing negotiations with the Americans, whose eschewal of a military solution to the nuclear standoff is attributed not to a desire for peace but to cowardice. From Wordnik.com. [How Pyongyang Plays the West] Reference
Modernism is, in large part, a systematic eschewal of whatever makes art most broadly and immediately appealing or even accessible, and an embrace of features that remove it further into the exclusive province of those who have been not so much educated as initiated. From Wordnik.com. [FINAL CRISIS, Pt. 1: The Modernist Background] Reference
New historicists have been noticed for their eschewal of grand theory and their alternative reliance upon anecdote and happenstance; for their immersion in the empirical plenitude of antiquarian history, from which items are plucked like rabbits from a hat, which turn out to illuminate a more traditionally "major" text or topic; and for their general effacement of hermeneutic problems about doing history in favor of the sheer vividness of the data of history. From Wordnik.com. [Is Literary History the History of Everything? The Case for 'Antiquarian' History] Reference
Woolman's journals, first published in 1774, provided a personal model of the eschewal of slave-made goods. From Wordnik.com. [Corrente] Reference
And what has happened in the last few months since Obama's victory and his eschewal of Bush-style confrontation?. From Wordnik.com. [The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan] Reference
In fact, the new Bollywood aesthetics find an echo here in its severe eschewal of the institutions of state and civil society. From Wordnik.com. [Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist] Reference
(Washington's eschewal of a military solution to the nuclear standoff is always mocked in the North as proof of Yankee cowardice.). From Wordnik.com. [The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan] Reference
It is not as inspiring, of course, as the last weeks of the campaign, but Obama's inaugural speech should have tipped us off to his eschewal of that kind of uplift from now on. From Wordnik.com. [Top stories from Times Online] Reference
Kerlikowske's eschewal of martial metaphors and embrace of medical language, like Clinton drug czar Barry McCaffrey's, probably will turn out to be a cover for business as usual. From Wordnik.com. [Libertarian Blog Place] Reference
They had both, from conscience, eschewed the vanities of the world; but with neither was her conscience quite satisfied that such eschewal was necessary, and each regretted to be losing pleasures which might after all be innocent. From Wordnik.com. [Miss Mackenzie] Reference
Los Angeles Times running their big fall preview packages this weekend, I thought it might be a good idea to reshuffle them a bit and rearrange the offerings in order of the release of some the more interesting films coming up this season, adding links to earlier previews, festival reviews, etc. Tsai Ming-Liang with a notable and effective eschewal of dialogue. From Wordnik.com. [GreenCine Daily] Reference
2. One thing that intrigues me about your stories is that, despite your eschewal of monsters, you still skew pretty hard in different ways toward the supernatural and fantastic. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-05-10] Reference
Lee Partners’ eschewal of hostile takeovers in favor of using a mix of debt, institutional investors, and its own funds–usually in concert with existing management–was atypical in an eat-or-be-eaten business. From Wordnik.com. [Fortune’s Fool] Reference
The Asheville Citizen-Times, a co-sponsor of the debate (tentatively scheduled for Sunday, October 22), was none too happy about the Shuler eschewal, but Hotline notes a Shuler campaign release: “From the beginning we were very clear that I could not and would not debate on Sunday. From Wordnik.com. [Midterm Roundup] Reference
It isn’t about Muslim terrorism per se, nor about eschewal of war by the West for that matter while the West’s enemies wage war by all the means at their disposal, however nasty those may be; it is about that rejiggering of the world at large, even when the immediate attention may be on one particular theater of the global conflict. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Bernstein (Robert!) Denounces Human Rights Watch:] Reference
(4) a sensibility that economic reality is incredibly complex, inspiring the eschewal of efforts to paint a picture of the economy or how it "really" works. From Wordnik.com. [Teaching Un-Normal Economics, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference
The devil sat within him, and revelled with full dominion over his soul: there was then no feeling left akin to humanity to give him one chance of escape; there was no glimmer of pity, no shadow of remorse, no sparkle of love, even though of a degraded kind; no hesitation in the will for crime, which might yet, by God's grace, lead to its eschewal: all there was black, foul, and deadly, ready for the devil's deadliest work. From Wordnik.com. [The Kellys and the O'Kellys] Reference
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