Word: arrante
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...reaction against some of the most successful antipoverty efforts in the U.S. The liberals' defense of abortion beyond the first trimester has no moral rationale unless the life of the mother is at risk. Their full-throated embrace of freedom of speech ignores the social pollution caused by the arrant commercialization of the culture. If Democrats cannot concede even these points and show a real appreciation for the values of faith, they will have a hard time winning national elections anytime soon...
...Their full-throated embrace of freedom of speech ignores the social pollution caused by the arrant commercialization of the culture. If Democrats cannot concede even these points and show a real appreciation for the values of faith, they will have a hard time winning national elections anytime soon...
...This column grew out of two kinds of stories I?ve written for ?the real magazine? - for TIME not-com. (In addition, that is, to all the movie reviews, celebrity profiles and arrant forays into the world of sport, science and, last week, the criminal underworld). One is a tribute to long-dead actors or musicians, usually tagged to a reissue or revaluation of their work...
...does one explain the arrant ingenuousness that defines her many years with Bill? Mrs. Clinton would have us believe that Monica Lewinsky was the first betrayal. Gennifer Flowers, Paula Jones, the tales the troopers told--all are dismissed as smears floated by political enemies or by grifters looking for money. (By the time the President told her about Monica, he had already admitted in a deposition to having had a sexual relationship with Gennifer Flowers, but Mrs. Clinton doesn't mention that.) One imagines the serial infidelities are too painful, too embarrassing. One imagines she doesn't want to expose...
...after all, arrant nonsense to claim that no one has seen a fairy, or a ghost. Thousands have, over the course of human history, and thousands more have seen what might have been fairies or ghosts or other, stranger things. It’s possible that in every instance there was a trick of the light, or a hallucination or a burst of wishful thinking. But since we do not know (and by definition cannot know) the probability of the supernatural’s existence, the assertion that every ghost or fairy-sighting must be a fiction is little more...