prescind

Aquinas prescinded from the concrete and developed a perspective that enabled him to conceive of grace as a distinct order of being beyond the order of nature.

Without such a political watchword, we are prone to forget why and where we are "rolling." Victory loses its luster, and its urgency, when prescinded from the reasons we fight.

In short, in 1940s films, characters and their relations with one another seem somehow already prescinded from the narrative's social setting.

This last point brings me to another question Paul Smith asked of Debra Moddelmog that I prescinded until this moment: regarding the "self-reflexivity" she finds created by Nick as implied author, Moddelmog asks, "`Are we trying to make him "one of us'"--to which Smith replies, "First, yes, we are trying to make Hemingway `one of us,' as every critical generation has, and has to, to earn its critical stripes" (146; citing Moddelmog's letter).(11) I would like to argue, however, that Hemingway had already made himself--or his text--of "our time." If, as Roland Barthes once noted, criticism is always belated, the "criticism" constituted by In Our Time is belated--and consciously so.

A political eudaimonism that prescinded from freedom would be just a tyranny of the intellectuals who defined what happiness was--a parody of Plato's Republic (73-4).

Though Pinckaers refers to the work of Charles Curran, The Sources of Christian Ethics cannot be said fundamentally to engage with the current debate on natural law (further debate on this subject perhaps being prescinded by the encyclical letter Veritatis splendor of 1993).