Alexandra Petri

Stereotyped as convention-going, pocket-protector-wearing, chess-playing, infrequently-showering types, nerds are one of our society's most ridiculed groups. And, for a university with an international reputation as a bastion of intellectualism, Harvard is startlingly devoid of them.

American Journalist

Laurie Simmons

I think the art world is one of the last bastions of this kind of sexism where there is a mythology about a woman not being able to be both and artist and a mother: that some very important creative crystal inside a woman would be shattered by the idea of having a child.

American Artist

Leo Buscaglia

We want to gently remind people that we don't have forever. In my work, I hear parents complain all the time that their children grow up so fast. But they don't take the time to sit down and talk to each other. The last bastion of getting together is around the table.

American Author

Mary Lou Jepsen

The world's information is digital. The web, the news, all of that is digital. And now... we have ten million books scanned. That was the last bastion of what was offline; it's now online and accessible.

American Businesswoman

Chris Harris

Porsche is the last bastion of cars for petrolheads. So when they start making electric cars, you realise the world really is changing.

British Journalist

Roger Craig Smith

The Internet is a bastion of negativity, and we get to sit there and voice our cute, little, important opinions.

American Actor

Tony Campolo

In America, evangelical churches have often been bastions of conservatism, providing support for the status quo.

American Clergyman

Max Boot

I saw America as a land of opportunity, not a bastion of racism or sexism.

Padmapriya Janakiraman

Cinema is a male-dominated bastion and one has to be patient.

Indian Actress

Lynn Nottage

The stage is the last bastion of segregation.

American Playwright

When used metaphorically, 'bastion' implies strength, but also resistance to change.

Metaphorical Use

In many cultures, 'bastion' is associated with historical institutions or ideals thought to be inflexible.

Cultural Connotation

Depending on the context, 'bastion' can have a positive spin (safety, security) or negative (rigidity).

Positive or Negative

In military contexts, 'bastion' refers to specific fortified structures in fortifications, not casual defenses.

Military Architecture

'Bastion' in military language demands technical understanding of fortifications and defense.

Technical Usage

Historically, 'bastions' were integral to the defense of castles and walled cities.

Historic Fortifications

 The site is going to be vacant. You know, we feel like it's like walking into a ghost town. This place that was the core of the ʻAkikiki world, their castle, their bastion, where we always thought that they would do the best. You walk in and it's empty streets. It's really it's really sad and

Saving Hawaii’s Birds...

 in an effort to guide society towards enlightenment. Similarly ancient are the Mentats— human computers capable of processing incredible amounts of data. While the Mentats are bastions of logic and reason, their results are not mere calculations,

Why should you read...

 by giving them access to information about themselves, including this incredible new brain-decoding technology. But I worry. I worry that we will voluntarily or involuntarily give up our last bastion of freedom, our mental privacy.

When technology can read...

 we had seen deliberate body disposal as sort of the last bastion of what identified us as human. When Jane Goodall wrote to Louis Leakey saying "I have seen a chimpanzee using tools." He said, prophetically

Discovering Homo Naledi:...

 know it well I'm not proud of the fact that I know it well I too have participated in those grotesquely distorted male bastions it's the instinctive assumption of male