All 9 Uses of
bushido
in
Hyperion
- He joined with his peers in sneering at the New Bushido as a code for faggots, but an ancient vein of honor in the young Kassad's soul secretly resonated to the thought of a samurai class whose life and work revolved around duty, self-respect, and the ultimate value of one's word.†
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- FORCE prided itself on preparing itself for all contingencies in the Web or the colonial regions, but nothing had properly prepared it for the Battle of South Bressia and its implications for the New Bushido.†
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- The New Bushido Code which governed Colonel Kassad's life had evolved out of the necessity for the military class to survive.†
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- As the New Bushido evolved it combined the age-old concepts of honor and individual courage with the need to spare civilians whenever possible.†
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- such as the political rebellion on Maui-Covenant, with its unique guerrilla warfare, or the religious insanity on Qom-Riyadh were put down quickly and firmly and any excesses in the campaigns merely pointed out the importance of returning to the strict Code of the New Bushido.†
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- From his first minutes on South Bressia, Kassad realized that the New Bushido was dead.†
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- While other FORCE commanders were all but ceasing to function, frozen into indecision by this violation of the New Bushido, Kassad-in command of his regiment and in temporary command of his division after the nuking of Command Group Delta-was trading men for time and calling for the release of fusion weapons to spearhead his own counterattack.†
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- It was the ultimate violation of the New Bushido, worse in its way than the wanton murder of civilians.†
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- Gone were his thoughts of the New Bushido.†
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Definition:
"Way of the Warrior"; traditional code of the Japanese samurai which stressed courage, loyalty, self-discipline, and simple living