Word: besottedness
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She is lauding her sleek, faithful, potent Excalibur, which to anyone not hopelessly besotted with Arthurian lore means an automobile. Not just any automobile, but one of the classiest, flashiest chariots to make the scene since the fall of Rome.
WHEN IT WAS all over, Bruce and I cleaned up all the shit that the dancers and drinkers had left behind. No one had gone through more than half a can of beer (Knickerbocker is awful), and the 400 square feet of white linoleum had been left tatooed with brew...
Knute Rockne, All American [1940]. The life story of college football's greatest coach, starring Pat O'Brien. A couple of years ago Patty returned to Notre Dame to give a fantastic reenactment of the inimitable half-time pep-talk in the film when Knute Rockne inspired a losing Notre...
The author's theme is suitably antique: Will she or won't she? Marian is a spoiled, listless rich girl who has wandered home to Wales after a brief try at art school in London. Chandler, the man-about-London, is half-besotted with her. and Nichol, a...
In one form or another, much the same formulation of besotted behavior has been cast up by all of the world's elbow-bending cultures-which is to say the overwhelming majority of the world's cultures. Man in his cups is presumed to be irresponsible, out of...