| There is still a recognizable contrast with the European experience on the continent, with absolutism and enlightened despotism. |
| After 1945, World War II was conceptualized here as a crusade against absolutism and intolerance. |
| One problem with absolutism about honesty is that it drives the moralist into a kind of dishonesty of her own. |
| When will we get effective political pushback against Hollywood's absolutism on copyright? |
| As we have seen, Richardson follows the Whig propagandistic practice of conflating tyranny and absolutism. |
| After all, what lies at the heart of European absolutism or Russian autocracy? |
