25 April 2016

• Sublimate: To divert the energy of (a sexual of other biological impulse) from its immediate goal to one of a more acceptable social, moral or aesthetic nature or use. 
• The worst experience endured by people in the Middle East and North Africa, had to be expiated on surface instead of being pent up or sublimated. (Stuart Schaar) 
•  Polemic: A controversial argument, as one against some opinion, doctrine , etc.
•   On an occasion like this I have no appetite for polemics. (Saul Bellow) 
• Unswerving: Not turning aside, constant 
• Chris Hann, who knew Gellner, in his obituary in The Independent (London), 8 November 1995, pointed out that 'his scorn for western Marxism was unswerving'. (Stuart Schaar)