Literary notes about rigor (AI summary)
The term "rigor" in literature is employed in a variety of ways, often connoting a sense of severity, strictness, or unyielding discipline. In some contexts it denotes the harsh application of legal or moral strictures, as when justice is administered without leniency ([1], [2], [3]) or when the severity of governance is critiqued through the lens of inflexible regulation ([4], [5], [6]). At other times, rigor is used to illustrate the unrelenting physical or environmental conditions that confine or affect behavior, as seen in descriptions of climatic hardship ([7], [8]) or the palpable tension within a character’s emotional state ([9], [10]). It can also highlight the exacting nature of intellectual and methodological precision in scholarly discourse ([11], [12]), thereby underscoring a broader thematic concern with the balance—or imbalance—between strictness and clemency in both human institutions and natural processes ([13], [14]).
- Justice must now take its course with inexorable rigor.
— from The Bride of the Nile — Complete by Georg Ebers - They administered justice in person; and the rigor of the one was tempered by the other's clemency.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon - But whenever the offence inspires less horror than the punishment, the rigor of penal law is obliged to give way to the common feelings of mankind.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon - 19 A single instance will serve to display the rigor, and even cruelty, of Aurelian.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon - A single instance will serve to display the rigor, and even cruelty, of Aurelian.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon - In the use of victory, Constantine neither deserved the praise of clemency, nor incurred the censure of immoderate rigor.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon - The rigor of the climate limits the extension of its territory, and shuts up its ports during the six months of winter.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 1 by Alexis de Tocqueville - We regret to be obliged to add, that, owing to the rigor of the season, he was using his tongue as a handkerchief.
— from Notre-Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo - This latter argument seemed finally to soften the rigor of her determination.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition by Edgar Allan Poe - Placed in the same situation, he experienced how easily the rigor of a judge dissolves away in the tenderness of a parent.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon - It is true that some consider the works of Bezout deficient in rigor, but he knew better than any one what really was a demonstration.
— from The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America by Thomas Jefferson - They are supposed to have all the rigor which the 'synthetic philosophy' requires.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James - Infinite pity, yet also infinite rigor of law: it is so Nature is made; it is so Dante discerned that she was made.
— from On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History by Thomas Carlyle - They are convinced, by sufficient experience, that no plan, either of lenity, or rigor, can be pursued with uniformity and perseverance.
— from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12) by Edmund Burke
