Word: aura
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Coulter conveys an aura of privilege, wealth and--above all--certainty. "Would that we all could have the political and moral clarity that seems to come so effortlessly from Ann Coulter," wrote an admiring Lisa De Pasquale of the Luce Policy Institute last year in the conservative publication Human Events. But can it be effortless? One theory about Coulter is that she is less Joe McCarthy and more a right-wing Ali G, acting out a character who utters what the rest of us won't. ("That led him to masturbate into [White House] sinks?" she asked in 1999, when...
...comedian’s club that lets the audience come in.” In its initial years, the Comedy Studio did not gain instant success, with audiences numbering as few as six. Nevertheless, Jenkins refused and continues to refuse to advertise, in order to maintain the more cloistered aura of a comedian’s club...
...used to fight one battle at a time in one House of Congress. Now we have three battles going at once [the budget in the Senate, contra funds in both the Senate and the House] and on their ground. It is high risk. And if we lose that aura of invincibility, we are in trouble...
Still, even in a nation long buoyed by the President's cheery optimism, his ailment could infect the almost magical aura from which he has drawn his political power. It could perhaps shift at least a portion of national stewardship to others less serenely self-assured. Reagan has always been more guiding spirit than hands-on manager, but now even the vigor of his vision will be examined more critically, unjustifiably perhaps, but inevitably...
Predictably, Mitchell’s aura of controversy, lexical and otherwise, has spread somewhat to his VES class...