Word: canted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...They cant sing. Theyre professional lip-synchers! No live band, no improvisation. Just pure, 100 percent unconcentrated lip-synching straight out of the carton. No potential for mess-ups, no whines from the crowd that the live versions sound different, no need for talent...
...people mean anything at all by the cant expression "untimely death," they must believe that some deaths run on a better schedule than others. Death in old age is rarely called untimely--a long life is thought to be a full one. But with the passing of a young person, one assumes that the best years lay ahead and the measure of that life was still to be taken...
...CANT GET THERE FROM HERE...
...response to the "high-ranking official" who anonymously attacked Professor Nesson for his involvement in my appeal, I wish to say that Charlie has given generously of his talent, time and energy and I am most grateful. It is true that Charlie has an unusually low tolerance for cant, double-talk and hypocrisy. But it is precisely these eccentricities that make him a good friend and an invaluable asset to the University. PETER BERKOWITZ Jan. 12, 1999 The writer is associate professor of government 13/01/1999 Editorial 10 Letters Tenure System Needs Review To the editors...
Alvy soon has enough of the professor's pretentious cant and triumphantly produces the real-life McLuhan, who conveniently was waiting behind a nearby signboard. The lines McLuhan delivers to the academic are priceless...