They fulminated the most hostile of all decrees.

Ballads in the black tradition are also often centonical—they borrow thematic elements from a variety of sources to build something new.

[E]ntelechy, or the entelechial motive, is a function of language and is rooted in history, in a verbal action by a human agent in a specific sociopolitical scene. The entelechial motive is one of the most purely human motives in Burke.

One writer gravely assures us that Maurice of Saxony learned all his fraudulent policy from that execrable volume [The Prince].