I do register, and historicize, the feelings in this scene. From Wordnik.com. [Hemans, Heber, and _Superstition and Revelation_] Reference
What I set out to do in those posts was historicize the doomsters. From Wordnik.com. [Can Doom Turn Toward Socialism?] Reference
And it is also dangerous to historicize his life in a pragmatic way upon other human beings. From Wordnik.com. [Following The Historical Jesus, Following The Real Jesus] Reference
This is the first time I've seen a 19th-c. author try to historicize the use of "Romanist" vs. From Wordnik.com. [Religion] Reference
Milman would later write The History of the Jews, a valuable attempt to historicize English "Hebraism.". From Wordnik.com. [Hemans, Heber, and _Superstition and Revelation_] Reference
In the years that have passed there have been several attempts by insiders to historicize the role of the ANC. From Wordnik.com. ['I Saw a Nightmare …' Doing Violence to Memory: The Soweto Uprising, June 16, 1976] Reference
I suppose you could historicize or contextualize them – Ballard with the ICA milieu and Eno with the UK art schools. From Wordnik.com. [Ballardian » The 032c Interview: Simon Reynolds on Ballard, part 2] Reference
First, it seeks to historicize the prehistory, the statutory origins, and the early liberalization of this corporate tax law. From Wordnik.com. [Mehrotra on Mergers, Taxes, and Historical Materialism] Reference
Why do Roman sources Tacitus or the letters of Pliny not mention that this movement is seeking to historicize a mythical figure?. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-01-01] Reference
A good rule of thumb is to historicize everything, connect everything, keep asking how things link up and move from one to another. From Wordnik.com. [November « 2007 « Bill Ayers] Reference
And rather than over-historicize the biblical texts — those old-fashioned, benighted biblical people with their primitive, completely wrong ideas!. From Wordnik.com. [Philocrites: Tomorrow's prophetic Episcopalians?] Reference
However, much of this discussion not only diverges from Equiano's text, but also fails to adequately historicize gender and sexuality in both 18th century British and Igbo society. From Wordnik.com. [Notes on 'The State of Things: Olaudah Equiano and the Volatile Politics of Heterocosmic Desire'] Reference
Burke's rhetoric was a grammar and not a history of motives, yet its grounding in the Renaissance court (ier) ship of Shakespeare's sonnets suggests how readily we might use it to historicize authorial motives. From Wordnik.com. [Hemans, Heber, and _Superstition and Revelation_] Reference
Out of the effort to historicize infant baptism and fides aliena there began to emerge a world history of God's plan for the salvation of children, a history that stressed that God's solicitude toward the young had been continuous. From Wordnik.com. [A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries] Reference
Judeo-Christian, Greek, Renaissance and Enlightenment traditions historicize this link via idealized bodies, technological perfection, ordered space and a host of other tropes for reasoned man, who is good because he is beautiful and beautiful because he is good. From Wordnik.com. [ArtScene: This Month's Top Exhibitions in the Western United States] Reference
McEwan just knows how to do it: create fully realized characters through the details, historicize the personal and personalize the historic, manipulate time in service of narrative, embody location, nuance emotion and intellect: really, he's got the novelistic toolkit down. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-01-01] Reference
At a broader analytical level I am therefore posing the question of how to historicize political change, arguing that its pace was highly variable along a scale that had on the one end the slow attrition of a government's authority and, on the other, the explosiveness of a coup d'état or revolution. From Wordnik.com. ['I Saw a Nightmare …' Doing Violence to Memory: The Soweto Uprising, June 16, 1976] Reference
This special issue offers an opportunity to take stock of the idea of enclosure to explore the connections between, for example, the type of "primitive accumulation" for which the term was originally applied and its more abstract, contemporary instances, and to historicize rigorously its application. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-12-01] Reference
Palin's appeal is too dangerous to my mind to historicize her quite yet. From Wordnik.com. [DC's] Reference
I also think it is important to historicize theory, so that the reasons why certain theories emerged when they did makes more sense. From Wordnik.com. [Wired Campus] Reference
Do you think there is a "linear" history of contemporary comics -- are we able to historicize it yet as literature (or a genre of its own)?. From Wordnik.com. [Blog of a Bookslut] Reference
If you hear despair in others and you listen together to the tone and form of that despair, you begin to historicize and denaturalize emotion and its objects. From Wordnik.com. [Foreign Policy In Focus] Reference
And though auto-didacticism is not a glittery or singular enough basis upon which to historicize an individual, it becomes clear over the chapters that Craddock's most basic attributes - her "unregulated intelligence" and her "destructive impulse to impart knowledge without discrimination" - are actually her most impressive. From Wordnik.com. [NPR Topics: News] Reference
I'm just being a historian, just trying to do what historians do and historicize "-- oh, no, I didn't say that word -- that's a jargon word --" put Sojourner Truth in context. ". From Wordnik.com. [Sojourner Truth: A Life, A Symbol] Reference
Fredric Jameson’s slogan “Always historicize!” really meant always place the literary text in the context of power relations, with the author forever on the side of power. From Wordnik.com. [Literature without prefixes] Reference
Twenty years later the disciplines were new and went by new names—“print culture,” “the death of the author,” “intertextuality,” l’arbitraire du signe, “Always historicize!” and the “reconstruction of the canon.”. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-12-01] Reference
We’re looking for essays that historicize Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight series, examining individual characters or aspects of the series against a historical backdrop, or analyzing how popular historical understandings inform the series. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-06-01] Reference
The article does historicize these concerns. From Wordnik.com. [Information, Culture, Policy, Education: Fearing the Gothic: Indonesia cinema] Reference
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