Your first argument wasn't based on that kind of Thoreauvian, "beware any enterprise that requires new clothes" philosophy at all, but was a rather clear statement that you dress casually as a visible sign of your commitment to liberationist theology. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-08-13] Reference
Rohrer himself is a kind of Thoreauvian game designer, a 31-year-old back-to-the-land programmer-philosopher who lives in Las Cruces, N.M., where he codes his eccentrically engrossing games, which can feel like digitally mediated poetic moods, on an ancient computer and makes them available free online. From Wordnik.com. [NYT > Technology] Reference
But the Thoreauvian desire for more elbow room has led to sprawl, malls, and cougar attacks. From Wordnik.com. [Urban Living Is Kinder to the Planet Than the Suburban Lifestyle] Reference
But Sarah Palin is not applying for a job as some kind of freelance, Thoreauvian intellectual. From Wordnik.com. [Motion and thought ...] Reference
"Thoreauvian conservative," according to his idea of government, but I could just as well say "patriot" since I aspire to be counted among the. From Wordnik.com. [OpEdNews - Diary: Something in a Name] Reference
I admired the gesture, and appreciated its Thoreauvian allusions (did I just make up a word?), but I wondered if there was anything of merit for me in there. From Wordnik.com. [Jerusha Klemperer: No Impact Man and the Pursuit of Happiness] Reference
But people keep trying to get a living from Vermont earth: some because the land they farm has been in the family for generations, others because they have heard a Thoreauvian summons to live a better kind of life. From Wordnik.com. [Ah, Wilderness] Reference
He had spent his boyhood in Concord, Massachusetts, imagining a Thoreauvian future for himself (he lived a short hike from Walden Pond); when he went to summer camp on an island in Maine, he knew where that future would be. From Wordnik.com. [Beyond the McIntosh] Reference
A libertarian, Mr. Kateb offers paeans to individual audacity and a Thoreauvian insistence that no one need be an instrument of injustice, but emphasizes that collective human behavior exhibits “political ruthlessness tending toward brutal excess and extremism and accompanied by intoxicated or thoughtless moral indifference.”. From Wordnik.com. [Adamantly Against Patriotism- A Plea for Individual Audacity] Reference
What a rare and heartwarming surprise it is to hear Thoreauvian echoes in the hills this cold January. From Wordnik.com. [Elections - fresh news by plazoo.com] Reference
Others documented a period of time (usually a Thoreauvian year) spent under self-imposed limitations or other behavioral requirement. From Wordnik.com. [NPR Topics: News] Reference
Kunstler has this painterly, small-town-America, Thoreauvian thing going on, kinda locavore voluntary simplicity, with lots of time for. From Wordnik.com. [Peak Energy] Reference
As implied by the Jon Krakauer styling of the title, the series has some Thoreauvian pretensions to serving as an adventure of self-discovery. From Wordnik.com. [Slate Magazine] Reference
The forest is back to what we think of as Thoreauvian levels, even though, as Foster will tell you, the woods had been cut down by the time Thoreau was writing. From Wordnik.com. [Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming RSS Newsfeed] Reference
My year of living a nouveau-Thoreauvian conceit | clusterflock etc. From Wordnik.com. [my year of living a nouveau-Thoreauvian conceit | clusterflock] Reference
Howes and Clark called upon Thoreauvian ideals of nature, independence and community to create an academic program modeled after Thoreau’s experiment at Walden Pond. From Wordnik.com. [henry david thoreau | happy birthday, henry! « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground] Reference
My year of living a nouveau-Thoreauvian conceit. From Wordnik.com. [my year of living a nouveau-Thoreauvian conceit | clusterflock] Reference
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