In our age, nationalism, capitalism, communism, fascism, consumerism, cyberism, and even ecologism have become substitutes for genuine religion.

The setback left him a mere shell; he was never the same again.

Ives can use music to editorialize, hence In Flanders Fields and its bitter antiwar noisemaking.

Temefos is an organophosphorus insecticide used to control mosquito, midge, and black-fly larvae in lakes, ponds, and wetland habitats.