In its narrowest acceptation, order means obedience. A government is said to preserve order if it succeeds in getting itself obeyed.
What job is worth the enormous psychic cost of following a leader who values loyalty in the narrowest sense.
In the usual (though certainly not in every) public decision on economic policy, the choice is between courses that are almost equally good or equally bad. It is the narrowest decisions that are most ardently debated. If the world is lucky enough to enjoy peace, it may even one day make the discovery, to the horror of doctrinaire free-enterprisers and doctrinaire planners alike, that what is called capitalism and what is called socialism are both capable of working quite well.
I view myself in the narrowest possible terms, but I don't watch anything I've been in, and I don't read reviews or analysis of movies I've been in, or my plays.
Uncertain whose the narrowest span,--the clown unread, or half-read gentleman.
Fame, like the river, is narrowest where it is bred, and broadest afar off.
