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other-directedness

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  • Yet somehow even the most incongruous social conventions can take hold for a time, and in our era, the conjunction of a dutiful other-directedness with a dutiful rebelliousness seems by now so entrenched and commonplace as to be almost natural.

    Liberty and Tyranny Mark R. Levin 2009

  • Yet somehow even the most incongruous social conventions can take hold for a time, and in our era, the conjunction of a dutiful other-directedness with a dutiful rebelliousness seems by now so entrenched and commonplace as to be almost natural.

    Liberty and Tyranny Mark R. Levin 2009

  • His characteristic concerns were all in place in his first book: his faith in fiction as a diagnostic tool for social reality, his estrangement from both Jewish tradition and its secular alternative, the modesty and other-directedness of his role as a literary intellectual.

    Archive 2009-08-01 2009

  • His characteristic concerns were all in place in his first book: his faith in fiction as a diagnostic tool for social reality, his estrangement from both Jewish tradition and its secular alternative, the modesty and other-directedness of his role as a literary intellectual.

    “Goodbye, Columbus” at fifty 2009

  • But please don't worry that I'm getting ready to preach to you about compassion or other-directedness or the so-called "virtues."

    Revealing words ... Frank Wilson 2008

  • But please don't worry that I'm getting ready to preach to you about compassion or other-directedness or the so-called "virtues."

    David Foster Wallace on Life and Work 2008

  • Please don't worry that I'm getting ready to lecture you about compassion or other-directedness or all the so-called virtues.

    Not Foolish. Hungry. DFW. Literary Hero Ben Barren 2005

  • Again, emotions might form an indefinitely broad continuum comprising a small number of finite dimensions (e.g. level of arousal, intensity, pleasure or aversion, self - or other-directedness, etc.).

    Emotion de Sousa, Ronald 2007

  • Please don't worry that I'm getting ready to lecture you about compassion or other-directedness or all the so-called virtues.

    Archive 2005-07-01 Ben Barren 2005

  • The glory of Jesus in the Fourth Gospel is always related to what might be called the 'other-directedness' of Jesus 'vision: he receives glory from the Father because he does what he sees the Father doing, he accepts his identity, his destiny, from the father's hand, so that his glory is always that of a Son whose being is derived from the Father's (Jn 1.14).

    Addresses given to celebrate the centenary of the birth of Archbishop Michael Ramsey: I. Theology in the Face of Christ 2004

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