Word: blarneyed
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...have been associated with Fadden in his tenure here (or during his 1950-1965 stint as trainer of the Boston Red Sox) disagree. The Fadden Treatment involves part blarney, part ego deflation, part sympathy and a healthy does of medical expertise. Combine these virtues with the vantage point of 81 years of varied and usually fascinating living, and Fadden begins to seem like a legend...
Nabokov's faith in the transforming magic of an artist's style leads him to overrate the beautifully written blarney of Stevenson's Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. By the same token, he somewhat underrates Jane Austen, who, despite her "pert, precise and polished" prose, is so deeply rooted in the quotidian that he misses her enchantment. Yet he celebrates his own aesthetic, the "capacity to wonder at trifles," with an ardor that is irresistible. "These asides of the spirit, these footnotes in the volume of life are the highest forms of consciousness," he maintains...