promethean

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The recognized godfather of modern Orthodox-inspired Russian patriotism, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, once characterized Bolshevism as a promethean effort to rub off the age-old face of Russia and to replace it with a new, ersatz Soviet image.

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  1. Of or pertaining to Prometheus. See Prometheus.
  2. Having a life-giving quality; inspiring.
  3. An apparatus for automatic ignition.

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  • With his blind, promethean passions unleashed, the new man is free to move about as if a magistrate in the kingdom of the god of self-absorption and feel-good illusions. —  Intellectual Conservative Politics and Philosophy
  • The heroes smoked - it represented the promethean power over fire, the "fire" lit in the active mind - and even helps one achieve a higher level of attention, or as an Objectivist would put it, "focus one's mind." —  RealClimate
  • We throw all this over in order to advance our promethean will to power and self-assertion. —  Latest entries from endlesslyrocking.blog-city.com
  • The projector that puts the image on the promethean board has a source button.
  • There is software that comes with the Elmo that will allow you to use the "computer" mode, pull up the document, freeze it, and use the promethean software to write directly on the board.
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