Name: What is “normal” and...
Uploaded: 2025-11-08
Description: Applied to individuals, whether someone is considered normal usually depends on how closely they hew to this average. At best, such definitions of normal fail to capture variation. But oftentimes, our calculations of normal are even more flawed.

Stacy Schiff

The interesting thing about Cleopatra is that she is such a shape-shifter. I mean through history we've all molded her to our times and our places. So there's room for a movie for her, but I don't think it will hew to the book.

American Author

Gwen Ifill

By nature, I am someone who hews to the middle. I need to hear all sides of a story. Unless I am engaged in a tough round of dominoes or Scrabble, I think of myself as unreasonably reasonable.

American Journalist

Graydon Carter

Satire works best when it hews close to the line between the outlandish and the possible - and as that line continues to grow thinner, the satirist's task becomes ever more difficult.

Sean Pertwee

In Cape Town, there's a drive from Cape Point to Camps Bay where the road is hewn out of the cliffs. It's just stunning, particularly if you do it as the sun is going down.

English Actor

Arne Jacobsen

Proportions are what makes the old Greek temples classic in their beauty. They are like huge blocks, from which the air has been literally hewn out between the columns.

Danish Architect

Stanley Hauerwas

The very fact that doctrine is hewn from bitter controversy and tested through time is sufficient reason to make them a focus of theology.

American Theologian

Howard Fast

My books were attacked constantly by the Communist Party for not hewing to the Party line. I have never hewed to a Party line of any kind.

American Novelist

Walter Cronkite

On television, I tried to absolutely hew to the middle of the road and not show any prejudice or bias in any way.

Frank Harris

There is a destiny that shapes our ends rough, hew them as we will.

Irish Author

Roscoe Conkling

He will hew to the line of right, let the chips fly where they may.

American Politician

Used when describing a physical action requiring effort and strength, often outdoors.

Physical Action

Historically linked to woodcutting and carving, evoking a sense of tradition and manual labor.

Historical Use

Can imply a violent or forceful action when used metaphorically.

Violent Connotations

Associated with artistry and the careful crafting of wood or stone.

Craftsmanship

Implies a level of precision and care in the shaping process.

Precision Required

Stresses the importance of strict adherence to guidelines or principles.

Strict Conformity

Sometimes suggests a strong moral commitment to a cause or belief.

Moral Fidelity

Often used metaphorically to suggest alignment or fidelity to non-tangible concepts.

Metaphorical Use

 Applied to individuals, whether someone is considered normal usually depends on how closely they hew to this average. At best, such definitions of normal fail to capture variation. But oftentimes, our calculations of normal are even more flawed.

What is “normal” and...

 The world is much better equipped to overcome an increase in the price of oil today, than ever in the past, because of what I'm talking about. One idea, one world, one market. So I'm optimistic so long as we hew to these two

Alex Tabarrok on how...

 single monastic room at the uppermost level a later edition by religious practitioners these high temple rooms sit atop cave complexes that can have sixty to eighty rooms a high-rise hewn

Hew

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