Word: claghornian
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...drawls tall tales about good ole boys back home in hill-country North Carolina. In rambling Senate speeches, he quotes the Bible, Jefferson and Kipling; he opposes most civil rights bills and accuses the Supreme Court of killing the Constitution's meaning by "verbicide." But for all his Claghornian pomp and ceremony, Sam Ervin is no archetypal Southern reactionary. He is in fact one of the Senate's ablest civil libertarians...
...time your arrival carefully you can avoid the co-feature, something called "Banjo," involving dogs, children of various sizes and colors, and a Claghornian view of a shoddy but genteel Southland. It is as bad as it sounds...
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