Word: boast
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...easternmost fringe of campus, which I have the dubious distinction of calling home, indeed proffers many unique amenities to its fortunate inhabitants. All students enjoy private bedrooms—hence the much-invoked “Singles for Life” slogan. The upper floors of the high-rise boast panoramas of the Boston skyline. The Soviet-style Brutalist aesthetic endows the courtyard with an ineffable proletariat charm...
...worst. But because he does it without the requisite shame, it's funny, since the actor is usually playing guys who are cocooned in, and sustained by, an utterly unwarranted belief in themselves. Ferrell knows, as surely as his characters don't, that his body is nothing to boast about. So to display it as if it were worthy of a Muscle & Fitness cover is to tell us that they are as unself-conscious as they are self-unaware. Ferrell might be the fellow who ran naked across the stage at the 1974 Oscar ceremony, inspiring this...
Even with the two late additions, the Crimson travels with only 11 fencers, while St. John’s, Columbia, and Penn State boast full 12-person teams. Although mathematically possible for Harvard to repeat its title as national champions, it will be hard to garner the points necessary to defeat the larger squads...
Although these groups are for the greater part ethnically homogeneous, many do boast the odd member who is not of the predominant race. “In my time, [the BMF] hasn’t been limited to black men,” says Hamilton, “Our social chair is Latino. It’s very much about where your heart is and where your mind is. And how you’re viewed and judged by your peers.” April D. Youpee-Roll ’08, president of Native Americans at Harvard College, says...
...keeps forgetting to mention that he believes he would make a good President. ("I don't mean to toot my own horn," he said at the firehouse, when he finally remembered to boast.) Giuliani's biggest round of applause is usually the one when he's introduced...