Word: casualness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...student was making his purchases, he noticed two men in casual clothes milling around the store, he said...
...Matthiessen's impressive, exasperating novel about the shooting, in 1910, of a man named E. J. Watson, by a mob of angry townsmen in southwest Florida. Was Watson a hardworking planter and family man who paid his bills and helped his neighbors, or a bar brawler and casual gunman who killed his hired hands rather than pay them at the end of the cane-cutting season? Or was he both...
...dress lies somewhere between casual and semi-formal: no jeans and sneakers, but jacket and tie aren't necessarily mandatory either. Chinos, skirts, slacks and the occasional suit seem to be the norm. And most of the clientele are older, so a wacky leather and chains get-up would definitely stand out as inappropriate. If you want to give your taste buds an orgasmic experience (great way to impress a first date), Chez Henri is a perfect place to take refuge and put yourself at the mercy of the food. Order the Monkfish with Fennel Puree, Shallot Jus and Chanterelles...
...another, more real sense, it was cold and wet--so I decided to stay inside. I wandered into the Mather House library to check out the magazines and there it was, the answer. Needless to say, I was surprised to have stumbled upon this priceless information in such a casual manner and in such an inauspicious setting. One could imagine discovering manliness in Mather, but in the library...
Fortunately, Sir Isaiah in print was more comprehensible than in person. Although the Oxford philosopher was casual about his writings--he never attempted a major book--his lectures and scholarly papers, including Russian Thinkers and Against the Current, established Berlin's reputation as a formidably learned defender of liberal values. His most famous and influential essay, The Hedgehog and the Fox (1953), divided humankind into those who have one big idea and those who have many smaller ones. Berlin's hedgehogs included Plato and Dante; among the foxes he named Aristotle and Shakespeare. Although too modest to make such...