I am doubtless an old fashioned girl: "unbeholden" makes perfect sense to me, meaning "not owing anyone anything" or something like that. ❋ Gregory Feeley (2006)
My poem employs the word "unbeholden," meaning not obliged to anyone. ❋ Gregory Feeley (2006)
SC, Palace stonewall on ruling Allies harp on need for 'unbeholden' chief justice ❋ Unknown (2010)
How unusual and refreshing it is to witness individuals so unbeholden to busy. ❋ Lynn Casteel Harper (2011)
Huntsman's relatives and friends describe him frequently as an independent thinker, unbeholden to any church or party doctrine. ❋ Unknown (2011)
That posture suited him well, allowing him to embrace his centrism and remain unbeholden to the left wing of the Democratic Party. ❋ Arian Campo-Flores (2010)
The worst offenders, for many reactionaries, are the writers and narratives of Modernism, where we see autonomy asserted most strongly and stubbornly in a complete refusal to compromise complexity and an insistence on the validity of art (as the making of meaning) as a project unbeholden to any sympathic, ethical or moral principle -- art for art's sake rather than for entertainment or edification. ❋ Hal Duncan (2008)
It's just a matter of doing it along with restoring money creation power to the government and making America democratic again, unbeholden to bankers. ❋ Unknown (2009)
We need docs like yourself who are independent and unbeholden to Big Pharma and the supposed ❋ Unknown (2009)
One hope offered by the early days of the online DVD review, which more or less coincided with the birth of the WWW, was that knowledgeable specificity, unbeholden to anyone, would prevail. ❋ Unknown (2007)
In story after story, the media portrayed -- and continue to portray -- John McCain as a larger-than-life anti-politician, unbeholden to special interests and driven not by ambition but by a sense of duty. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Instead, the former Nader Raider, who's made a career out of assailing the lowly ethics of others, who's presumably called for full disclosure and transparency from various public officials, masqueraded as a neutral observer -- partisan, to be sure, but unbeholden. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Now it is reasonable to wonder how that 4.6% gain was spread out among the bottom 90% as unbeholden asked. ❋ Unknown (2008)
This from a guy who deems himself — and is slavishly deemed by the press — enlightened on climate change and unbeholden to special interests. ❋ Roberts, David (2008)
No right in a free society is more precious than the one guaranteeing free, fair and open elections monitored and run by independent observers unbeholden to any political constituency. ❋ Unknown (2007)
