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I personally am of the view that he should do a Whoops Roadshow, but that is between him and his citizenly duty – at some point you do start thinking, I should have understood this before circumstances made it alarming not to understand it.

No time for novels – should we ditch fiction in times of crisis? 2011

The alienation effect makes it necessary, much as it pains me to say it, to understand what the parents who were driving were actually thinking: so not only do we have a citizenly duty to understand Germany, economics, the new world order, science and climate, but we probably also have to read, if not Tony Blair's autobiography, at least Gordon Brown's and/or Alistair Darling's.

No time for novels – should we ditch fiction in times of crisis? 2011

This is the only time I've ever felt that I have a citizenly duty to keep it up.

No time for novels – should we ditch fiction in times of crisis? 2011

The question is: Have we redefined our detachment as a new version of citizenly valor (and covered it over by a constant drumbeat of “support for our troops”)?

Tom Engelhardt: America Detached from War: Bush's Pilotless Dream, Smoking Drones, and Other Strange Tales From the Crypt 2010

It enables them to affirm their support for all things British – or better still Anglophile – military and citizenly, while also denouncing all the “murderers and terrorists” whom they imagine to be spilling over the borders.

Morality and the liberal Alix Mortimer 2009

And then ... we caucused our way to the auditorium to do our citizenly duty.

Sharon Glassman: Was It Him, or His Obama? 2008

And it is just in the regions and cities, where experience occurs, that we can begin to recover substantive democracy, citizenly decision-making, and arrest the degeneration to formal consensus and massification.

A Letter to John Lindsay Goodman, Paul 1965

No. To restrict issues in this way is to regard people as children, unable to grasp general (and inescapable) citizenly concerns.

Growing Up Black Simon, Janet 1965

It was through forgetting this that his uncle died at St. Helena -- it was through forgetting this that Louis Philippe quitted Paris in a very citizenly but most un-kingly manner.

The Continental Monthly, Vol 3 No 3, March 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various

As in his seminars and conversations, readers on campuses and within the informed public would be drawn into a circle of thoughtful and respectful give and take, a true conversation that would generate the sort of mutual citizenly regard and forbearance necessary for the preservation of liberal democracy.

AMERICAN.COM -- A Magazine of Ideas, Online William Schambra 2010