OKE: Apartheid, literally "apartness" in Afrikaans and Dutch, was in basic terms racism made law. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Dec 16, 2006] Reference
The two were silent for a while, awkward after apartness. From Wordnik.com. [Starfarers]
Israel's policy of apartness, as outlined above, is obvious. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-03-01] Reference
How does a woman balance apartness and togetherness in a relationship?. From Wordnik.com. [The Mermaid Chair by Sue Monk Kidd: Questions] Reference
I think the attitude of society reinforces this sense of “apartness.”. From Wordnik.com. [Guest Post: Sarah Sweeney and Best of the Web 2008] Reference
It relates to the grievance culture, to affirmative action, to apartness. From Wordnik.com. [She Did Not Misspeak, But the Obama Administration Will, Yet Again, Try to Lie Their Way Around It - Erick’s blog - RedState] Reference
But all in all, it had that same effect of apartness -- of vast antiquity. From Wordnik.com. [The Moon of Skulls]
There was only apartness and hopelessness, as far as all this was concerned. From Wordnik.com. [Lady Chatterley's Lover] Reference
To emphasise his apartness, Mr D speaks his lines while those around him sing. From Wordnik.com. [The Lion's Face] Reference
For the White man, apartheid is a distance of mind, a state of being, the state of apartness. From Wordnik.com. [How Apartheid Works] Reference
The sense of solitude and apartness from others while in a public space is remarkably pleasant. From Wordnik.com. [Has technology extinguished both true solitude and real social life?] Reference
I lived in Rhodesia in 1973 and there absolutely was “ethnic apartness”, if by that you mean. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Yglesias » Israel Deserves Better Defenders Than Andrew Roberts] Reference
"I want to move into the house you built me and start enjoying apartness," his wife said decisively. From Wordnik.com. [Decision at Doona]
Navy, commanding a nuclear-powered ship, and acting in a way that was without dignity, stature or apartness. From Wordnik.com. [The Captain and the King] Reference
And that lofty apartness had always been the attitude of the Forsyth family to the workaday life in the village. From Wordnik.com. [Red-Robin] Reference
A shadow of loneliness, an irreducible apartness from others, is inseparable from the fact of individual existence. From Wordnik.com. [Jon Will's Aptitudes] Reference
For the artist's work defines: and definition means apartness: and the average man is undefined in the social body. From Wordnik.com. [Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets] Reference
"The very presence of foreigners, indeed, stimulates the sense first of apartness and ultimately of group cohesion.". From Wordnik.com. [W assumes it's his ball and he can go home anytime he wants.] Reference
The separation of the people -- their enforced apartness -- arises not out of security considerations, but racial ones. From Wordnik.com. [Ahmed Moor: Israel Cannot be Both Jewish and Democratic] Reference
Of course, even in that ideal realm there is apartness, but in a characteristic mode, just as in a mode, there is priority. From Wordnik.com. [The Six Enneads.] Reference
Minister of South Africa, insisted to newsmen that apartheid (literally, apartness) was simply another name for neighbourliness. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Today] Reference
The shadow of loneliness must often be somewhat darker, the sense of apartness more acute, the sense of incompleteness more aching for people like Jon. From Wordnik.com. [Jon Will's Aptitudes] Reference
They can compensate for that apartness with scholarships and good works but never fully bridge the gap from what America, in its Jeffersonian ideal, is supposed to be. From Wordnik.com. [Cop-Out On Class] Reference
Browning makes Nature manifest her apartness from the man. From Wordnik.com. [The Poetry Of Robert Browning] Reference
This myth of apartness is notably less pervasive in Sri Lanka. From Wordnik.com. [Worldchanging: Bright Green] Reference
But though, in this lofty apartness and self-unity, Browning and. From Wordnik.com. [The Poetry Of Robert Browning] Reference
Was not this apartness the very thing he had just been bitterly feeling?. From Wordnik.com. [AE in the Irish Theosophist] Reference
The apartness which her nationality gave her, made Mrs. Crowley more easy to talk to. From Wordnik.com. [The Explorer] Reference
She was equal to Pitt, in her seeming careless apartness; the difference was, that with her it. From Wordnik.com. [A Red Wallflower] Reference
Browning does not stand alone among the poets in the apartness from his own land of which I have written. From Wordnik.com. [The Poetry Of Robert Browning] Reference
All the fear of being lost arises from the sense of illusion of separateness or apartness from the One Life. From Wordnik.com. [A Series of Lessons in Gnani Yoga] Reference
In Lahore, he had longed for that moment; now he feared lest it too sharply emphasise their inner apartness. From Wordnik.com. [Far to Seek A Romance of England and India] Reference
But in spite of man's undeniable apartness, there is no doubt as to his solidarity with the rest of creation. From Wordnik.com. [The Outline of Science, Vol. 1 (of 4) A Plain Story Simply Told] Reference
Yet a phrase like "apartness makes greatness," when justly applied to a poet, marks, not his superiority of rank, but his inferiority. From Wordnik.com. [The Poetry Of Robert Browning] Reference
Hazem Jamjoum: Alright, well first of all the word apartheid is an Afrikaans word, which means apartness or to separate, separateness. From Wordnik.com. [Palestine Blogs aggregator] Reference
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