Great point about the chosen/unchosen consensus thing. From Wordnik.com. ["And then they were upon her."] Reference
No one wanted to be left unchosen and the tension grew. From Wordnik.com. [Lion Of Macedon]
(How awful should nobody want you, you remain unchosen!). From Wordnik.com. [Growing Pains] Reference
These are the bio videos from some of the unchosen designers. From Wordnik.com. [Just Can't Get Enough!] Reference
The unchosen were cast as the newly chosen, the counter-chosen. From Wordnik.com. [The Chosen Peoples] Reference
What you said about unchosen conditions looks pretty categorical. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Add Bad Ethics to the Problems of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”?] Reference
They were mocking the ugly girls, who sat day after day unchosen. From Wordnik.com. [The Persian Boy]
Or are those unchosen & unchosen-times conversations "different" somehow?. From Wordnik.com. [What is the sound of one hand on a children's TV show host?] Reference
These unchosen resent, hate, avenge, and raise their children accordingly. From Wordnik.com. [The Chosen Peoples] Reference
The color is unchosen but the message is settled: "I (tm) Social Security.". From Wordnik.com. [Bush's Big Bet: Risking His Capital] Reference
He has often been frustrated by the gilded confines of his unchosen destiny. From Wordnik.com. [The Private Prince] Reference
Electability comes from all sorts of places, chosen and unchosen (like race). From Wordnik.com. [Bill Clinton Rips Obama In Charlie Rose Interview] Reference
The dispute is over the significance of the fact that homosexuality is unchosen. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Add Bad Ethics to the Problems of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”?] Reference
Sabina believed that she had to assume the correct attitude to her unchosen fate. From Wordnik.com. [The Unbearable Lightness of Being]
For some writers, the distinction between chosen and unchosen loyalties is critical. From Wordnik.com. [Loyalty] Reference
At a subsequent period of the history we find him fairly abandoning his unchosen trade. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 62, No. 384, October 1847] Reference
The dispute is over the significance of the fact that homosexuality is unchosen.dhdcnrQuote. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Add Bad Ethics to the Problems of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”?] Reference
The idea that unchosen others must come before someone else is grounded in absolutely nothing. From Wordnik.com. [The Immorality Of Public Safety Nets] Reference
The first wrinkle is that individuals differ in their unchosen natural talent resource allotments. From Wordnik.com. [Egalitarianism] Reference
I tend to formulate welfare justfications in terms of unchosen but necessary societal obligations!. From Wordnik.com. [Various readings about Lakoff and Framing] Reference
Jack's unchosen role in life seems to be to test others: Faced with him, they find out who they are. From Wordnik.com. [A Ne'er-Do-Well Returns] Reference
In this light, the unequal and unchosen content of the marriage relationship raised philosophical problems. From Wordnik.com. [Marriage and Domestic Partnership] Reference
It was perfectly obvious that ShelbyC was posing counterexamples to what you said about unchosen conditions. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Add Bad Ethics to the Problems of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”?] Reference
It may be psychologically a bit harder, but that does not sustain a general judgment about unchosen loyalties. From Wordnik.com. [Loyalty] Reference
After each selection, it was more and more obvious that everyone was saying to the unchosen ones "You're fat!". From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-08-01] Reference
Yes, they come to a consensus decision on the books that are chosen, but not a consensus on the unchosen books. From Wordnik.com. ["And then they were upon her."] Reference
We're all moving toward death but most of us don't see the unchosen death as clearly as you have been forced to. From Wordnik.com. [Japan April 2008: dying and living] Reference
Some role obligations attach to unchosen social roles, but only to social roles that are reflectively acceptable. From Wordnik.com. [Special Obligations] Reference
Thus there was nothing unreasonable about taking what you said about unchosen conditions as a categorical statement. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Add Bad Ethics to the Problems of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”?] Reference
In this way in thought unchosen luck is transformed into morally inoffensive chosen luck (so far as this is thinkable). From Wordnik.com. [Egalitarianism] Reference
No man can have a right to impose an unchosen obligation, an unrewarded duty or an involuntary servitude on another man. From Wordnik.com. [The Virtue of Selfishness]
Limiting freedom to someone based on their unchosen, inborn characteristics is not only unconstitutional, but is inhuman. From Wordnik.com. [In Which I am asked by LDS Church Representatives to Support Prop 8 Canvassing Efforts | Mind on Fire] Reference
What one chooses, bad or good, may simply reflect the unchosen luck that gave one the ability to be a good or a bad chooser. From Wordnik.com. [Egalitarianism] Reference
I watched many of the unchosen kids grow to be not only good athletes, but better sports and leaders among their peer groups. From Wordnik.com. [Are You an Encouraging Inspiration or a Discouraging Dumbass? | Motivational Humor from the Motivational Smart Ass!] Reference
Others, who remain timid, unresponsive, and go unchosen after several months confront, because of space demands, a harsher fate. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript - Sunday Morning News: Across America: Ohio Inmates Train Dogs for Adoption - September 10, 2000] Reference
This is the newspaper account, and, as such, it seems in the depths of the unchosen, either by me or any other expression of the Salvation. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of the Damned] Reference
Basic stuff like: “people matter, and matter (in at least some sense) equally” and “happiness is better than (unchosen) suffering.”. From Wordnik.com. [Public Reason and “Rational Proof”] Reference
This part goes on for a long long time because 20 people showed up to play and they picked 10 to a side so as the ranks of the chosen grew and the unchosen we depleted. From Wordnik.com. [Ballad of a Ballgame] Reference
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