Word: cathedra
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...nice to be heeded, he didn't care if he was liked. This wasn't the case with Manny; but he certainly wouldn't play the game of critical ingratiation. Writing sentences suitable for blurbing, charming readers with equivocation ("Is it only me or...?"), bullying them with ex-cathedra opinions ("If you don't agree with me you're an idiot"): to him all this smacked of hucksterism...
...John Wayne, printed above his picks--mystified me with his expertise. Invariably, Lawton would recommend a rank outsider, a horse sent off at 15-1, which would proceed to stun the field. With each improbable pick, Lawton gained in stature, until his tips assumed the weight of ex cathedra pronouncements, to be ignored at one's peril. My grandmother's favorite reproof to her husband, to be intoned didactically: "But George, you didn't have it? You know, Lawton gave us the four...
...Vanke seems to have read my essay as if I was offering a firm answer. What I was presenting was a way of searching for an answer. For this, to my mind, was the major flaw in Rev. Peter Gomes' formulations: he merely asserts an answer or solution---ex cathedra--without showing us the interplay of moral and operational steps. In Professor Gomes' view, it ought to be self-evident that the time has arrived (more than one century) for lifting the moral burden of blame and responsibility for several centuries of cruel violations of Blacks' humanity...
...mail while discoursing on story ideas. When he went to lunch with a co-worker, he often took a book, so as to utilize any precious moments when his companion might be away from the table. Magnificently rumpled, intensely convivial though a teetotaler, flamboyant ("He always spoke ex cathedra," says a senior editor), Bill was a vivid personality in an era when journalists tend to be a bland, earnest bunch. Everything he did was distinguished by a first-class intellect, which showed in his polished prose, his ability to organize complex material, and his ceaseless flow of ideas. But from...
...left with the question of how Flynn the wembler cam to learn the art to making sagacious choices. Maybe hanging around the Holy see without much to do has allowed a little of that infallibility ex cathedra to rub off on our old friend...