Absolutism

We cannot mistake absolutism for principle, or substitute spectacle for politics, or treat name-calling as reasoned debate.

The element of absolutism and prelacy was more controlling in the counsels of the rival corporation.

As absolutism became more consolidated in Europe, and particularly in France, such nonabsolutist states tended to define themselves in opposition to their absolutist rivals: hence, those features of their government which differed from absolutism tended to be given special prominence.

It was the absolutism of his ambition to be a perfect writer (and perhaps also the perfect son) that imperiled him.