Word: canting
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...does no justice to the imagistic subtlety of his work-that Australia ever harbored, and one of the very few modern artists to make a convincing bridge between Eastern calligraphic traditions and Western drawing. He was also-suspect though the term has become in our time of New Age cant-a deeply spiritual artist...
...would have been refreshing if Gore had defended himself with honesty, rather than cant. The necessities of politics are often constraining, and forthrightness is a difficult commodity to find. But surely this was a time when forthrightness was possible. All he had to say was that the letters represented his true feelings at that time in his life, feelings that have subsequently changed...
What kind of cockamamie lingo is slang anyway? Samuel Johnson railed against it, complaining about the corrupting influence on the English language of what in his day was called cant. Daniel Defoe hated it. Noah Webster, in his 1828 American Dictionary, defined slang as "low, vulgar, unmeaning." And in all the years since, legions of teachers have tried to eradicate...
...find in a publication that has pretensions to respectability. (And I wonder: after Zhirinovsky, whose is the next name on Frank's `hit list'--and the next?) Indeed, I am even more dismayed at the judgment of the editors of The Crimson. Have you been so benumbed by the cant of the Free Speech Absolutists that you think it's perfectly proper to allow the Opinion page to be used to advertise for someone's murder? Who is the next person you will allow to be marked on your pages as a `fit' target for assassination? Where is The Crimson...
...Revised Standard Version of the Bible. Reading that often tin-eared update of the beloved King James, Macdonald wrote, "is like walking through an old city that has just been given, if not a saturation bombing, a thorough going-over." As a satirical gadfly, cultural critic and detector of cant, Macdonald was a worthy successor to the sage of Baltimore, H.L. Mencken...