Word: bluffer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...completed section of stained glass, Matisse's working model of the chapel did actually seem filled with fiery light. Had he known it would come out so well? "No," said Matisse, "I didn't-I'm not a bluffer. Emotions within us lead us to create. The artist works and arrives at a moment when there is an explosion ... I can't say why in this case the colors happened to be so subtle and harmonious...
...things were going. Last week, as he said farewell, he delivered an autocrat's final warning: "If the Rollins faculty reverts to the lecture and recitation system with their inevitable grades and examinations, all of which tend to make the professor a detective and the student a bluffer, then you may hear the creaking sound as I turn over in my grave...
...approach, the personal angle is everything, that the line of talk is far more important than the line of merchandise. The play shows, too, how in terms of self-respect a man's need to be a big shot turns him, with profound self-disrespect, into a bluffer. But Playwright Miller writes only marginally as a sociologist; in the main he writes with a human being's concern and compassion for other human beings, of the muddle that lies deeper than mistakes, of the self-deceptions bred of more than sleazy social values. At its very best, Death...
...Square is small compared to the students who meander with the intention of crossing, but without the patience to be careful. Drivers who aim for pedestrians are negligible compared with the pedestrians who bluff any car that strikes their fancy-before it strikes their instep. Often the bluffer forces the car to swerve and thus hit someone else...
Said Czar Jimmy: "I've never been called a bluffer. We're either right or we're wrong, and I think we're right. And don't be quoting me as saying all I want to do is love...