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Intolerable Acts
Intolerable Acts name given by American patriots to five laws (including the Quebec Act ) adopted by Parliament in 1774, which limited the political and geographical freedom of the colonists. Four of these laws were passed to punish the people of Massachusetts for the Boston Tea Party . The Bosto... Read more
Peter Folger
Peter Folger fōl´jer , 1617-90, British settler on Nantucket. He was associated with Thomas Mayhew on Martha's Vineyard, becoming missionary, schoolmaster, and surveyor. He moved to Nantucket in 1663, added other duties to those he possessed in Martha's Vineyard, and became a leader in t... Read more
John Haynes Holmes
John Haynes Holmes , 1879-1964, American clergyman, b. Philadelphia, grad. Harvard, 1902, and Harvard Divinity School, 1904. For 42 years (1907-49) he was minister of the Community Church, New York City; in 1949 he became pastor emeritus. The church belonged to the Unitarian denomination until 1919,... Read more
lactose
lactose or milk sugar, white crystalline disaccharide (see carbohydrate ). It has the same empirical formula (C 12 H 22 O 11 ) as sucrose (cane sugar) and maltose but differs from both in structure (see isomer ). It yields the simple sugars D-glucose and D-galactose on hydrolysis , which i... Read more
motif
motif , in literature, term that denotes the recurrent presence of certain character types, objects, settings, or situations in diverse genres and periods of folklore and literature. Examples of motifs include swords, money, food, jewels, forests, oceans, castles, dungeons, tests of skill or wisdom,... Read more
1774 Quebec Act
1774 Quebec Act passed by the British Parliament to institute a permanent administration in Canada replacing the temporary government created at the time of the Proclamation of 1763. It gave the French Canadians complete religious freedom and restored the French form of civil law. The Thirteen Colo... Read more
Valens
Valens , c.328-378, Roman emperor of the East (364-78). Brother and coregent of Valentinian I , Valens followed in most respects his brother's policies but, unlike him, embraced Arian Christianity (see Arianism ). An intolerant man, he sporadically persecuted orthodox Christians. At the beginning ... Read more
ASCII
ASCII or American Standard Code for Information Interchange, a set of codes used to represent letters, numbers, a few symbols, and control characters. Originally designed for teletype operations, it has found wide application in computers . A seven-digit (or seven-bit) binary number (see bina... Read more
asylum
asylum , extension of hospitality and protection to a fugitive and the place where such protection is offered. The use of temples and churches for this purpose in ancient and medieval times was known as sanctuary . In modern international law, the granting of asylum to refugees from other lands is ... Read more
Pierre Bayle
Pierre Bayle , 1647-1706, French philosopher. Born a Huguenot, he converted to Roman Catholicism and then returned to Protestantism. To avoid French intolerance of Protestants, he moved in 1681 to Rotterdam, where he lived for most of the rest of his life. Trained as a philosopher and with a strong ... Read more

Encyclopedia entries related to "Intolerable"

Intolerable Acts (1774)
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of U.S. Economic History INTOLERABLE ACTS (1774) The Boston Tea Party of...They are known collectively as the Intolerable Acts. The Boston Port Act, passed...Boston in particular, constituted the Intolerable or Coercive Acts. The acts aroused...
Intolerable Acts
Book article from: World Encyclopedia Intolerable Acts (1774) British legislation designed to punish the American colonists after the Boston Tea Party . Also known as the Coercive...
‘Intolerable Acts’
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to British History ‘Intolerable Acts’, 1774. These Acts were the British government's response to the Boston Tea Party and an attempt to isolate...
Fugue
Encyclopedia entry from: Complete Human Diseases and Conditions ...successfully cope with situations that would otherwise be intolerable. With dissociation, people can “ daydream...not only mentally “ go away from ” an intolerable situation through a dissociation defense mechanism, they...
Relative Deprivation
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences ...which are patiently endured when they seem inevitable become intolerable when once the idea of escape from them is suggested ”...satisfaction of one group. Rebellion was caused by “ an intolerable gap between what people want and what they get, ”...
Constructive Discharge
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Small Business ...in which employers forced employees to resign by creating intolerable working conditions, usually because the employees were engaged...discharged for misconduct. Constructive discharge because of an intolerable working environment is one of the qualifying causes, along...
Running Away
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of Children's Health: Infancy through Adolescence ...adventures, most runaways in the early 2000s are running from intolerable domestic situations. It has been estimated that at least...seekers to that of young people from families in crisis fleeing intolerable conditions with no place else to go. This perception of...
Sissela Ann Bok
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...easing suffering? Is there anything a person can do before becoming a patient to decrease the chances of being reduced to intolerable levels of suffering, loneliness, and dehumanization?" Lying: Moral Choice in Public and Private Life is one of the most...
Marcus Andrew Hislop Clarke
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...Melbourne as a newspaper reporter. Energetic, restless, and unable to settle at any task for long, he found routine tasks intolerable but succeeded as a columnist commenting on people and events. He thus established himself as a leader among the writers...
Sulfur
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of Alternative Medicine ...Symptoms generally appear on the left side. Bodily discharges are hot, burning, and sour smelling. The patient is extremely intolerable of the cold and other weather conditions. Arthritis, coughing, and hoarseness of the throat are all caused by damp weather...

Dictionary entries related to "Intolerable"

Intolerable Acts
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History INTOLERABLE ACTS INTOLERABLE ACTS. The four Intolerable Acts, also known as the Coercive Acts, formed Britain's punishment of both the town of Boston and the province of Massachusetts for the destruction of the East India Company's tea on...
intolerable
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology intolerable XV. — F. or L.; see IN-2 .
Intolerable Acts, the
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable Intolerable Acts, the derogatory term for four measures enacted by the British Parliament in 1774 against the American colonies, by which...
‘Intolerable Acts’
Book article from: A Dictionary of British History ‘Intolerable Acts’, 1774. These Acts were the British government's response to the Boston Tea Party . The Boston Port Act, the...
Declaratory Act, 1766
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...in the American revolutionaries' militant reaction to the Intolerable Acts. The harsh terms of the Declaratory Act, affirming...to rule the American colonies without limit, made the Intolerable Acts' passage in London virtually inevitable. In retrospect...
Defense Mechanisms
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis ...defense refers to the ego's attempts at psychic transformation in response to representations and affects that are painful, intolerable, or unacceptable. He abandoned the concept of defense for a period in favor of the concept of repression. He then reintroduced...
Repressed
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis ...The repressed representation in and of itself is an initial "nucleus of crystallization" capable of attracting other intolerable representations, without the intervention of any conscious intention. Repression is thus conceived as a dynamic process...
Transference Hatred
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis ...arrange to perpetuate their chosen form of sadomasochistic relationship as long as possible. However, it is possible for the intolerable nature of negative transference not to appear, remaining unconscious for both the patient and the analyst. The only symptoms...
Unconscious, The
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis ...psychoneurosis of defense in 1894, Freud managed without the word unconscious. Thus ideas (or representations) that were intolerable, irreconcilable, repressed, durable, and pathogenic were beyond association, forgotten, outside of consciousness...
National Council of Churches
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...remained the province of independent interdenominational groups. However, this lack of centralization became increasingly intolerable to many Protestant leaders in the post – World War II atmosphere of universalism and institution building. The...

Thesaurus entries related to "Intolerable"

intolerable
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus intolerable • adjective  the drilling noise had become intolerable synonyms : unbearable, insufferable, unsupportable, insupportable, unendurable, beyond endurance, too much to bear; unacceptable; informal too much. antonym: bearable.
impossible
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Thesaurus of Current English ...unmanageable, intractable, recalcitrant, wayward, objectionable, intolerable, unbearable.   4. life became impossible for the homeless synonyms : unbearable, intolerable, unendurable, hopeless. antonyms: possible; plausible; tolerable...
terrible
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Thesaurus of Current English ...appalling, awful, gruesome.   4. the terrible heat/pain synonyms : extreme, severe, harsh, unbearable, intolerable, insufferable.   5. what is that terrible smell? synonyms : nasty, foul, offensive, odious, obnoxious, vile...
objectionable
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Thesaurus of Current English ...abhorrent, repugnant, revolting, loathsome, nauseating, hateful, detestable, reprehensible, deplorable, insufferable, intolerable, despicable, contemptible, odious, vile, obscene, foul, horrible, horrid, noxious. antonyms: pleasant; agreeable...
unwanted
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus ...unpleasant, disagreeable, displeasing, distasteful, objectionable; regrettable, deplorable, lamentable; unacceptable, intolerable, awful. antonym: welcome.   2. an unwanted guest synonyms : uninvited, unbidden, unasked, unrequested, unsolicited...
tolerable
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus ...adjective   1. a tolerable noise level synonyms : bearable, endurable, supportable, acceptable. antonym: intolerable.   2. he had a tolerable voice synonyms : fairly good, passable, adequate, all right, acceptable, satisfactory...
severe
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus ...xA0; 4. a severe headache synonyms : excruciating, agonizing, intense, dreadful, awful, terrible, unbearable, intolerable; informal splitting, pounding, screaming. antonym: slight.   5. a severe test of their stamina synonyms...
repugnant
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus ...loathsome, sickening, nauseating, hateful, detestable, execrable, abominable, monstrous, appalling, insufferable, intolerable, unacceptable, contemptible, unsavory, unpalatable; informal ghastly, gross, horrible, horrid; literary noisome...
pale
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus ...his behavior was beyond the pale synonyms : unacceptable, unseemly, improper, unsuitable, unreasonable, unforgivable, intolerable, disgraceful, deplorable, outrageous, scandalous, shocking; informal not on, out of line; formal exceptionable.
fixation
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus fixation • noun  his sports fixation has gotten intolerable synonyms : obsession, preoccupation, mania, addiction, compulsion; informal thing, bug, craze, fad.

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FILM REVIEW: 'Intolerable Cruelty' abides, don'tcha know
News Wire article from: University Wire; 10/10/2003; ; 700+ words ; ...twisted genius of the Coen brothers, "Intolerable Cruelty" is the duo's first large...dark, socially pertinent cinema. "Intolerable Cruelty" is less bleak and bizarre...successful of depth, chill and darkness. "Intolerable Cruelty" is a marvelous idea. The...
FILM REVIEW: Far from 'Intolerable,' actors shine
News Wire article from: University Wire; 10/17/2003; ; 700+ words ; ...CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. -- At first glance, "Intolerable Cruelty," the most recent film from...traditional romantic comedy formula makes "Intolerable Cruelty" an ironic treasure hidden...Brother, Where Art Thou?" (2000), "Intolerable Cruelty" is brazen, ridiculous and...
`Intolerable Cruelty'.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service; 10/9/2003; ; 700+ words ; ...the snappy screwball comedy that is "Intolerable Cruelty," it does. Massey is a divorce...regards to question three, you betcha. "Intolerable Cruelty" borrows the whip-flapping...along with several other scribes', "Intolerable Cruelty" is easily the filmmaking duo...
`Intolerable Cruelty'.
Newspaper article from: Saint Paul Pioneer Press (St. Paul, Minn.) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service); 10/8/2003; 698 words ; ...Hewitt The new Coen brothers movie is called "Intolerable Cruelty," but ""Intolerable Cruelty"" would be more accurate. Everything...as kids in St. Louis Park, Minn., and "Intolerable Cruelty" is their homage to the sort of...
'Intolerable Cruelty' is the opposite of its title
Newspaper article from: Deseret News (Salt Lake City); 10/10/2003; ; 700+ words ; INTOLERABLE CRUELTY -- *** -- George Clooney, Catherine Zeta- Jones...local movie theaters" for theater listings. There's nothing intolerable at all about "Intolerable Cruelty," the latest from the Coen brothers. And come to...
`Intolerable' easy to take
Newspaper article from: Naperville Sun, The (IL); 10/10/2003; ; 493 words ; ...just two of the many pleasures of "Intolerable Cruelty." In their long, rich career...had a movie more perfect for it than "Intolerable Cruelty." True, Clooney had one of...Clooney's performance on down. "Intolerable Cruelty" is something more sublime...
Intolerable Cruelty; LOVE IS A BATTLEFIELD
Newspaper article from: Pittsburgh City Paper; 10/22/2003; ; 700+ words ; ...how he keeps his balls in the air. In Intolerable Cruelty, the new movie from the soon...hardly matters who produced and directed Intolerable Cruelty, although the movie has the...deft satirists but shrill pardists), Intolerable Cruelty is an occasionally choppy hybrid...
FILM REVIEW: 'Intolerable Cruelty' barely tolerable
News Wire article from: University Wire; 10/23/2003; ; 700+ words ; ...and rich. That's the conceit of "Intolerable Cruelty," a postmodern screwball comedy...cynical commentary on true love, "Intolerable Cruelty" agrees with its hippie soundtrack...perhaps, in the film's childhood. "Intolerable Cruelty" is the product of divorce...
Intolerable delays
Newspaper article from: New Straits Times; 8/20/2007; 495 words ; New Straits Times 08-20-2007 Intolerable delays Edition: Main/Lifestyle Section...that "delays of this nature are wholly intolerable and make an utter farce of the proper...simple case". By any measure, what was intolerable then is just as intolerable now - even...
Splitsville's a Nice Place To Visit in 'Intolerable Cruelty'
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 10/10/2003; ; 700+ words ; The courtroom comedy "Intolerable Cruelty" has an interesting lineage...is that the Coens walk off with "Intolerable Cruelty" without a brainy quip...tongued romantic sparring session, "Intolerable Cruelty" harks back to the screwball...