a summary of the principles of Christian religion in the form of questions and answers, used for the instruction of Christians
known in Russian catechisms as formalism
weird use of the term
China, whose outsized growth the global recovery vitally depends on, has flouted almost every item in Friedman’s catechism
We're also the only country that chose to close the schools one day per week [...] for catechism
whoa, this was news to me
The dialogue-of-one becomes a kind of mocking catechism
His ‘test’ swept aside all the necessary ambivalence in play, reducing one’s allegiance to a sporting team to a catechism of national faith
recounting neoliberal catechisms like Medieval Catholic priests reciting the Mass in Latin
Up to this point the theory of utility was able to base itself on definite social facts; its further account of the manner of exploitation amounts to a mere recital of catechism phrases.
A family man was doubly reckless to have broken rules that everyone in the shadow world knew like a catechism
They have come up against a conundrum of left catechism: how does a movement go about being socialist in an unripe country with a weak and marginal capitalism, a vast and ‘backward’ peasantry, and a monarchy that has not had the decency to undergo its bourgeois revolution?
there is room for nothing in Stalinist culture except for edifying sermons, colorless life, and the catechism of propaganda
some bit of absurdity or contradiction in the catechism
After an unsuccessful catechism class the priest enters in his diary, “But why the hostility of these little ones. What have I done to them?”
intoning a prefight catechism