Cabot turned back to the men and he was drunk with the thing they would do, wild to break from the cloying warmth of the saloon into the cold of the ebbing night.

But her conscious need was to break away from constricting patterns of form, a need to let the experience shape itself.

Monogamy is the vice from which the abjectly fearful middle class continue to suffer, whereas the beatnik has the courage to break out of that prison of respectability.

Sing Sing's prisoner strike was motivated by a reasonable purpose, a fair break from parole boards.

she could dust the plants, then break off suddenly and pick up an old novel and read from the middle on ; ;

They'll travel 50 feet or more when thrown from the spring trap but it's almost impossible to break one after it passes the 35-foot mark.

Purified inactive chlorine was then added from one of the tubes described above and the mixture frozen out and sealed off in a flask equipped with a break seal.

Walton, who soon made a break from journalism to become one of the capital's leading semi-abstract painters, vows that he and Kennedy never once discussed art in those days.

And then he heard a car coming from the east, and he felt as if he would break down and weep.

The Texans made themselves a comforting break on the opening kickoff when Denver's Al Carmichael was jarred loose from the ball when Dave Grayson, the speedy halfback, hit him and Guard Al Reynolds claimed it for Dallas.

She could not count the times Herman had rapped on the door, just a couple of bangs that shook the whole damned closet and might, someday, break away the pipe connections from the wall.

After the American Revolution, the parishes in the newly independent country found it necessary to break formally from a church whose Supreme Governor was ( and remains ) the British monarch.

* 1971 – President Richard Nixon completes the break from the gold standard by ending convertibility of the United States dollar into gold by foreign investors.

The warning — a result of violent activity springing from Mexico's drug cartel debacle — took college campuses by storm, with some schools going so far as to warn their students about the risks of travel to Mexico over spring break.

The New York Times tracked the travels of another Penn student on spring break in Acapulco just a week after the dissemination of the email, while Bill O ' Reilly devoted a segment of his show, The O ' Reilly Factor, to urge students to stay away from Acapulco.

This ability to maintain discipline and break out or maneuver away from a killing zone is a hallmark of good troops and training in any ambush situation.

When he had finished speaking, a member of the audience stood up and suggested that Bavaria should break away from Prussia and form a separate nation with Austria.

Sadly, personal troubles related to his homosexuality and his inability to break from the formula writing that made him a success led to his early death at age 46.

In 1959, a second women's barbershop organization started as a break off from Sweet Adelines due to ideological differences.

Whites eventually joined the fight against apartheid, leading many Black nationalists to break away from the ANC.

Various Arab and Berber tribes fought each other for varying degrees of power, some cities tried to break away and form their own state, and even members of Abd al-Rahman's family tried to wrest power from him.

Fay refuses to take her wig off, and confesses to him that this disguise, left over from a college play, is the only way she can break out of her rigid and cynical persona.

Then one day he emerged from the fort with the help of villagers to break down the door.

Although this shift was an important one, it did not represent a radical break from the past so much as a small step in a broader, more gradual socio-economic movement that had been going on at least since 1907 when van de Velde had argued for a craft basis for design while Hermann Muthesius had begun implementing industrial prototypes.

There remains no known way to break the full 16 rounds, apart from a brute-force search.

The sharpest break with tradition, the past and present of `` White Ring Around a Black Core '', may come with the opening of nearby Montgomery County suburbs to Negro residents and, presumably, the consequent conclusion of some whites that they cannot escape the Negro by fleeing to the suburbs.

Irregular past tense forms, such as " broke " or " was / were ", can be seen as still more specific cases ( since they are confined to certain lexical items, like the verb " break "), which therefore take priority over the general cases listed above.

With the successes of the civil rights movement, a new term was needed to break from the past and help shed the reminders of legalized discrimination.

Another important break with the past was the radical overhaul of opera by Christoph Willibald Gluck, who cut away a great deal of the layering and improvisational ornament and focused on the points of modulation and transition.

General Ayub Khan justified his actions after appearing on national radio declaring that: " the armed forces and the people demanded a clean break with the past ...".

Firstly, to reflect the hope and belief that he would live to celebrate his 100th birthday in 2030 ; secondly, and more importantly, to break free of the widespread practice of naming conventions that he saw as rooted in a collectivist mentality, and existing only as a relic of humankind's tribalistic past.

The move benefited United as they received a two-week break and won the 1999-2000 league title by an 18-point margin, although they did not progress past the group stages of the Club World Cup.

This represented a break with the past, in that previously it was believed that external and absolute reality could impress itself, as it was, on an individual, as, for example, in John Locke's ( 1632 – 1704 ) empiricism, which saw the mind beginning as a tabula rasa ( An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, 1690 ).

Visual art has made the most complete break with its past.

The same year, French president François Mitterrand guaranteed immunity from extradition to BR members living in France who had made a break with their past, were not sentenced for violent crimes and had started a new life.

His classic period did not represent so sharp a break with the past as some descriptions of his work might portray, and some, such as Thirion, argued that there were works of his after this period that continued to have some relevance for the movement.

Many important historic buildings were rebuilt, including the Semper Opera House, the Zwinger Palace and a great many other historic buildings, although the city leaders chose to reconstruct large areas of the city in a " socialist modern " style, partly for economic reasons, but also to break away from the city's past as the royal capital of Saxony and a stronghold of the German bourgeoisie.

In the French Foreign Legion, recruits can adopt a pseudonym to break with their past lives.

Re-socialization can be an intense experience, with the individual experiencing a sharp break with his or her past, as well as a need to learn and be exposed to radically different norms and values.

The Communist Party now says that Maoism was necessary to break China free from its feudal past, but that the actions of Mao are seen to have led to excesses during the Cultural Revolution.

The last literary generation of the 19th century signaled a decided break with the past and the advent of modernism-after the wave of optimism in the wake of the French Revolution at the beginning of the century, the lack of progress in implementing these ideals of freedom and brotherhood led to both a skepticism toward the possibility of ever achieving these ideals, and renewed efforts to do so.

Other than the coup of June, 1798, the Augereau-coup did present a sharp break with the recent past.

* Archaic past tense of the verb ' to break ' ( see brake )

Nothing is known for sure of Wren's first designs for the Sheldonian, but the finished building was a sharp, unmistakable break from the Gothic past.

" IGN editor Craig Harris described Bowser as the only " core Nintendo character over the past couple decades " to not have a starring role in a video game, and this game acts as his " big break ".

The flag is coloured in the popular Pan-African colours of the Ethiopian flag, reflecting both a break with the country ’ s colonial past and its unity with other African ex-colonies.

The Spanish burned the Itza library of books " containing lies of the devil ", and reported later that the city had so many idols that with almost the entire army set at work, it took from nine in the morning until half past five in the evening to break them all.

More recent scholars however have posited that the formation of the themes did not constitute a radical break with the past, but rather a logical extension of pre-existing, 6th-century trends, and that its direct social impact was minimal.