Culture is the tacit agreement to let the means of subsistence disappear behind the purpose of existence. Civilization is the subordination of the latter to the former. From LearnThat.org. [Karl Kraus (1874-1936), Austrian satirist.]
You should also read what a major contributor called tacit has to say here. From Wordnik.com. [Discussions: Message List - root] Reference
Collusion which is not overt, on the other hand, is known as tacit collusion. From Wordnik.com. [thejetsblog.com] Reference
The following is a decisive, though what we call a tacit reference to. From Wordnik.com. [Evidence of Christianity] Reference
Are they all just sitting on their hands in tacit alliance with the Jihadist ideas?. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Another European Prosecution for Insulting Religion] Reference
The firm, in tacit collaboration with the other firms in the industry, has wholly sufficient power to set and maintain minimum prices. From Wordnik.com. [The Non-Economist's Economist] Reference
It was essentially what could best be called a tacit non-aggression pact between the two. From Wordnik.com. [Salon] Reference
An important objection to the idea of tacit consent is that it begs the question about how a state gets its authority. From Wordnik.com. [Authority] Reference
It is, in other words, a tacit response to the fact that many of the shouts against you involve discussions of popularity. From Wordnik.com. [Community Is Hard. Deal With It. | Her Bad Mother] Reference
He contends that both sides were aware of this as some kind of tacit deal. From Wordnik.com. [Holy War - Al Qaeda's Luton & Dunstable frontline] Reference
Huhne says this was 'tacit', whatever that means and seems completely unworried by it. From Wordnik.com. [Chris Huhne Becomes Interesting] Reference
In his history, we can trace a kind of tacit protest against absolute despotism and feudal oppression. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847] Reference
Their arms folded, they stand like tiny bishops, inspecting, checking, their silence a kind of tacit approval. From Wordnik.com. [Small Brown Bishops] Reference
A kind of tacit agreement had been achieved, with never a word said of doubt, suspicion or plain, reckless trust. From Wordnik.com. [The Raven In The Foregate]
Likewise unknown is whether the US would consent to suit, or whether the ICJ would infer some kind of tacit consent. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » 2010 » April] Reference
HOPKINS: But what about this whole kind of tacit promise to veterans that they would be supported the rest of their life?. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jul 17, 2003] Reference
Whilst I was thus making these laudable dispositions, and whispering to myself a kind of tacit vow of incontinency, enters. From Wordnik.com. [Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure] Reference
He seemed to look upon this as a kind of tacit admission of our own utter incapacity to provide for ourselves in that respect. From Wordnik.com. [The Island Home] Reference
Society could not be held together entirely by force; it still needed a kind of tacit contract, a feeling of moral obligation. From Wordnik.com. [SOCIAL CONTRACT] Reference
I often think a kind of tacit/implicit apprenticeship goes on when people learn on the job purely as a function of 'being there'. From Wordnik.com. [If you haven't practiced, you haven't learned anything] Reference
It also, by a kind of tacit pact, discouraged the South from raising questions about increasing inequality in the industrializing North. From Wordnik.com. [Founders Chic] Reference
It is a kind of tacit acknowledgment, and we directly start speaking in French, says Vincent Rondot, 51, an archaeologist from Paris who visited Beirut in February. From Wordnik.com. [Rediscovering Beirut's Charms] Reference
It's a kind of tacit arrangement between the desk and me. From Wordnik.com. [Success A Novel] Reference
Most persons of ability meet in society with a kind of tacit appeal. From Wordnik.com. [Essays — Second Series] Reference
Perhaps it was meant as a kind of tacit motherly support for my fledgling faith. From Wordnik.com. [Verum Serum] Reference
But silently, by a kind of tacit agreement, they drew away from Delafield and Julie. From Wordnik.com. [Lady Rose's Daughter] Reference
Pahlavi recommended "tacit" dialogue with Iran's opposition and diplomatic outreach to isolate the regime. From Wordnik.com. [KansasCity.com: Front Page] Reference
Former Lord Provost Eric Milligan gives the idea tacit approval by saying: "I believe taxes should be paid. From Wordnik.com. Reference
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration gives "tacit" approval to such leases, the NTSB determined. From Wordnik.com. [Breaking News: CBS News] Reference
As gold is now a 'tacit' currency, gold is benefitting as the prospects for collective action on currencies is included. From Wordnik.com. [Safehaven] Reference
Both Cynthia and Mr. Satterlee knew that he was there, and both, by a kind of tacit agreement, ignored the circumstance. From Wordnik.com. [Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill] Reference
He had had a kind of tacit understanding with himself that, in that future which he had meant to share with Lucia, Court. From Wordnik.com. [The Divine Fire] Reference
Whilst I was thus making these laudable dispositions, and whispering to myself a kind of tacit vow of incontinency, enters Mr. H. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs Of Fanny Hill A New and Genuine Edition from the Original Text (London, 1749)] Reference
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