normalism

Example Sentences

• "There is very little normalism in the English language, and the attempt to reduce it to stricter rules is necessarily a failure."
• "In the wildest conquering inundations, lust itself obeying its impulese only bey a kind of necessity ; myriads of slaves carried off and embodied, still producing only a very gradual influence upon the normalisms of the typical form, and passing into absorption by certain external appearances, with very faint steps."
• "It is of importance to carry with us this idea of the normalism of the successive phases,—because accidental modifications frequently occur which may distract attention from the main lines of the case, and seduce us into a search for remedies where they cannot be found."
• "It is rarely, too, that one will be able to demonstrate readily upon a patient all that he can observe in his own person; for the patient has not the same practice of the auto-laryngoscopist, nor the same interest in it; while, in addition, his organs are seldom in a state of complete normalism, or he would have no occasion to consult the practitioner."
• "The 1968 movement pressed against the boundaries of any normalism."
• "As examples of normalism, such as the creation of a 'normal' demographic, economic or growth, make clear, the reproduction and continuity of normality require the state to translate 'this generally incomprehensible “landscape of curves” from the language of experts into the self-steering fantasy of the subjects' (Link, quoted in Remebert 2004: 6). Seeing normalism as a response to the challenge of modernity which success relies on state involvement prompts Link to identify it as a strategy of compensation."