Word: basks
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...date is that, a date. It is one point in time. You do not sign your soul to Lucifer merely for deciding to bask in the company of someone whom you find remotely attractive. Worst case scenario--the person with whom you're dining or having coffee passes out from actually being seen in public having a meal and interacting with another human being. Splat! Your date slumps, face-first into soup or another hot liquid, nearly drowns, scalds his or her face and requires paramedics. You've got a story to tell for the rest of your life. Your...
Well, if religious, one can keep the faith that the departed is able to continue to bask in his glory from the great beyond and content themselves with thoughts like "he would've liked this" and "I'm sure she's looking down...
...died on Sept. 2, 1969, at the age of 79, some six years before his battalions surged into Saigon. Aspiring to bask in the reflected glory of his posthumous triumph, his heirs put his embalmed body on display in a hideous granite mausoleum copied from Lenin's tomb in Moscow. They violated his final wishes. In his will he specified that his ashes be buried in urns on three hilltops in Vietnam, saying, "Not only is cremation good from the point of view of hygiene, but it also saves farmland...
Beyond the opponent and the location, for the first time in the history of its program, Harvard can bask in the thrill of playing on national television--the game will be broadcast live on ESPN. But most importantly, the Crimson's matchup with the Cardinal will be, at last, Harvard's opportunity to gain what it has gone so long without--national respect...
...judgment, candor and discipline. A clean win in Iraq would strengthen the impulse to let these charges fade away; but few in the White House hold out much hope that anything clean or clear will come out of this, and a messy aftermath won't exactly let him bask in the vindication of victory...