The historical narrative which unfolds within this book presents a challenge to that accepted orthodoxy. From LearnThat.org. [www.yourdictionary.com]
That is what you call orthodoxy -- the subjection of the many. From Wordnik.com. [Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 13 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Lovers] Reference
Can you guess what it might be, or does your invested faith in "orthodoxy" prevent you from seeing what you don't wish to see?. From Wordnik.com. [Bird Teeth] Reference
To accept an orthodoxy is always to inherit unresolved contradictions. From Wordnik.com. [Writers and Leviathan] Reference
Hemans, a Jerusalem whose Hebraic orthodoxy is always being reconstituted as a deliberative (Italian or Greek) city-state. From Wordnik.com. [Scepticism and Its Costs: Hemans's Reading of Byron] Reference
Since orthodoxy comes from the Greek ὀρθός, meaning straight, I would suggest that it is probably correct etymologically to call gays non-orthodox. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Another Call for Governmental Suppression of Speech Offensive to Religious Sensibilities] Reference
The atmosphere of orthodoxy is always damaging to prose, and above all it is completely ruinous to the novel, the most anarchical of all forms of literature. From Wordnik.com. [Inside the Whale] Reference
But when I use the terms orthodoxy or orthopraxy, I'm referring to what I perceive to be a more biblically pure and historically accurate vision of Christianity. From Wordnik.com. [4Simpsons Blog - Eternity Matters] Reference
There can be no renaissance when an official orthodoxy is forced upon citizens and the state mindlessly meddles in the marketplace of ideas and knowledge with a heavy hand. From Wordnik.com. [Alemayehu G. Mariam: Ethiopia: Education Unbanned!] Reference
Before it used to be Sun worship, then polytheism, then monotheism ... now to challenge the new 'green' orthodoxy is to be as heretical as it once was to challenge the forgoing. From Wordnik.com. [Cruel and Unusual] Reference
And then as soon as any Repulican/conservative/the right takes them up on this, any comment that deviates from liberal orthodoxy is immediately met with cries of “racist!!!!”. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Why Catholics and Jews?] Reference
Endowment, the new orthodoxy, which is clamouring for, 360. From Wordnik.com. [Evolution, Old & New Or, the Theories of Buffon, Dr. Erasmus Darwin and Lamarck, as compared with that of Charles Darwin] Reference
In short, what is known as orthodoxy is already unpopular. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Volume VIII. Interviews] Reference
Armstrong has said, The Axial Age sages were not interested in orthodoxy. From Wordnik.com. [The Great Transformation by Karen Armstrong: Questions] Reference
Not the least striking testimony to his orthodoxy is the part played by the Blessed. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery] Reference
All this was the more annoying to Mr. Hazard because his orthodoxy was his strong point. From Wordnik.com. [Esther] Reference
We apply rigid elitist orthodoxy, which is largely wrong, and expect the masses to follow us. From Wordnik.com. [Hillary Pollster Mark Penn: Obama Has Become The "Establishment Candidate"] Reference
Heibergians of the time, did not in any way deviate from what might be termed the orthodoxy of literary history. From Wordnik.com. [Recollections of My Childhood and Youth] Reference
The pulpit was at that time in offer to the highest bidder -- in orthodoxy, that is, combined with popular talent. From Wordnik.com. [The Marquis of Lossie] Reference
The orthodoxy is a world view in which minorities are axiomatically to be respected while Christianity is treated with contempt. From Wordnik.com. [Home | Mail Online] Reference
The conservative orthodoxy, which so proud of vouchers, or the liberal orthodoxy, which is so proud of charter schools or magnet schools. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Mar 28, 2008] Reference
And he's taken some position that is are counter to Democratic orthodoxy, which is very similar to what Bill Clinton did in New Hampshire. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 7, 2004] Reference
The "orthodoxy" isn't that there is no differences between the sexes. From Wordnik.com. [Balkinization] Reference
In your book, you use the word "orthodoxy" to describe the kind of Christianity you advocate. From Wordnik.com. [A Reformer Who Keeps ‘The Faith’] Reference
I have come to entertain very serious doubts about my "orthodoxy" on the subject of doing good. From Wordnik.com. [Lessons in Life A Series of Familiar Essays] Reference
Under a strict materialist view such as NDS 'orthodoxy' imposes, there's simply no excuse for it. From Wordnik.com. [Continuation…] Reference
Is he suggesting that some other kind of political, cultural, or religious "orthodoxy" gets expressed in their work?. From Wordnik.com. [Canonical Writers] Reference
The fact that it's irreconcilable to science is why biologists call it an "orthodoxy" and speak of "dogma" and "tenets.". From Wordnik.com. [A Voice from the Middle Ground] Reference
I'm pretty sure I don't at all understand what Ulin means to imply in asserting there is "orthodoxy" in the work of Joyce and Pound. From Wordnik.com. [Canonical Writers] Reference
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