Word: canted
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...feeling the weight of his years. But he does have a few advantages. He's able to commune with the spirits of the cadavers that pass through his morgue - "customers," as he calls them with characteristically mordant humor. And Dr. Siri is a cynic, naturally distrustful of the political cant mouthed by his communist-party superiors...
...national agenda. But he wasn't all high seriousness; if you spoke to those who worked with Oz during his time at Newsweek in the 1960s and 1970s, what came across above all was his sheer sense of the fun of it all, epitomized by an intolerance for cant and MEGO ("my eyes glaze over") prose. He constantly searched for great writing and great writers and displayed a puckish irreverence that recognized that readers needed to be entertained as well as informed...
...already attacked by name the most famous American funnyman of all, Mark Twain. His humor, Arnold sniffed, was "so attractive to the Philistine." It would be truer to say it was attractive to anyone who valued plain speaking and the kind of deadly wit that could cut through the cant and hypocrisy surrounding any topic, no matter how sensitive: war, sex, religion, even race. Twain was righteous without being pious, angry for all the right reasons and funny in all the right ways. You might say he gave virtue a good name...
...President Hugo Chavez and Bolivian President Evo Morales. But Lugo's running mate is a free-market liberal, Federico Franco, a Morales critic. On the campaign trail, Lugo has criticized Chavez for polarizing Venezuelan society and urges greater political openness in Cuba. Though his rhetoric often echoes the leftist cant of Latin America's liberation theology, he insists his agenda is social, not ideological. "I come from an ecclesiastical formation," Lugo said recently. "There is an option of the Latin American church and it's the most preferred option among the poor...
...spoke mostly in positive terms: what we are trying to do and what we can do," says Soetoro-Ng, who is now a history teacher at a girls' high school in Honolulu. "She wasn't ideological," notes Obama. "I inherited that, I think, from her. She was suspicious of cant." He remembers her joking that she wanted to get paid as much as a man, but it didn't mean she would stop shaving her legs. In his recent Philadelphia speech on race, in which he acknowledged the grievances of blacks and whites, Obama was consciously channeling his mother. "When...