Word: bespeak
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...about money. Those who don't have it don't have any opinions, and those who do put it down. They can: they've busted their asses getting where they are and they can say any kind of damned foolishness. Our most revered culture-hero, Bob Dylan, whose lyrics bespeak a profound revulsion at our dear depraved society is a millionaire living in a millionaire's seclusion. This means absolutely nothing except that he was not profoundly revolted at accepting millions of dollars for his work. To hear the average rock musician talk, Dylan should be ashamed of getting...
...embodies several of the disparate elements that make up this New South. His penetrating, almost colorless eyes and bristle gray hair suggest the Mountain South; the mellow courtesy and the slow, hypnotic cadence of the careful storyteller recall the Cotton South; his easy humor and fascination with historical minutiae bespeak the Southern Culture which has always been more a potential than a reality...
McKinney's panel also called for an elimination of those immigration and customs laws that "bespeak an unfriendly attitude based upon feelings of suspicion." Besides a general easing of visa requirements, it recommended that U.S. customs agents allow foreign visitors to make oral declarations without, in most cases, having their baggage inspected...
...each month on four Buddhist feasts called poya days, corresponding roughly to the phases of the moon. The change amounts to a rejection of the custom of Sunday observance that has been standard in Ceylon since 1815, when the island was a British colony. But it does not really bespeak a trend; elsewhere, surprisingly, Sunday is gaining favor, even among countries that have religious reasons for preferring another...
...Bloom'd. Nor are they elegiac in the usual sense. In poetry as elsewhere, the sea of faith has receded, and poets no longer have recourse to the traditional symbols of comfort and deliverance. The poems are for the most part stoical, terse, plainspoken. But all of them bespeak a grief as great as any poetry of the past...