Word: aura
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...invokes this term again in describing her classmates—peers, she says, who have mitigated the aura of awkwardness that her acting work ordinarily casts around...
Measuring the success of protests is always difficult, especially those against a war that took on an aura of inevitability in the months before it started...
...year-old creator of the picture-book classic Where the Wild Things Are, but it spoke to a "situation that has been part of my flesh and blood and bones my whole life." The son of Polish-immigrant Jews, Sendak had a childhood marred by a "dense, terrible aura" of the Holocaust, as news of perishing loved ones hung over the family home...
...Officer James P. Sullivan recalls when Tonis switched the department’s uniforms from gray shirts to white shirts. When asked why, Tonis explained that his son had commented that the gray shirts made the officers look like truck drivers—and Tonis wanted to project the aura of authority...
...studying the menus of these same establishments, Huerta says that she realized that there are discernible contradictions to be found in the menus and personal narratives. The pictures, symbols and language employed in the menus, as well as in the decor of restaurants, all try to project an aura of Mexican authenticity, even if it doesn’t reflect the personal experiences of people who own and run the place...