Word: clamoring
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...With the clamor of opposition calming, Clinton should be able to hear something else: The sound of two important United Nations missions going down the drain. And though quieter, this sound is far more dangerous...
After 30 years the literature of John Kennedy is dominated by tortured accounts of assassination conspiracies and an insatiable sexual appetite. Some of these stories may be true. But often lost in this clamor is a calm and just view of the man, flawed, wondering, trying. Above all else there was his humor, the trait that helped lift him on the way up and gave him special luster when...
...think everything pretty much works. You succeed quite well in painting feminism in black and white neofascistic terms, and, since most of the country does not go to Princeton or Harvard, you should have no trouble gaining an audience for your claim that the feminazis at these pretentious Ivies clamor for the public castration of any man who winks at a woman. In general, I always encourage your approach, especially for first-time authors: take a solid, if unoriginal idea and make it as outlandish as possible. Of course feminism can become a mockery of itself, but who would have...
...stockroom employees, glad that the clamor for books has calmed down, offered his solution to the problem...
Somewhere along the course of this narrative, as Claude's triumphs on the concert tour follow one after another, as the music world's most eminent performers clamor for his accompaniment, a reader may become jaded with unalloyed success. What is the point of going on? Aren't there any problems in this book? Unfortunately, the only serious trouble to visit Conroy's story occurs when Claude is at the keyboard. Here is what happens when he sits in on a jazz session: "G minor C seventh, A-flat minor D-flat seventh, A minor D seventh, B-flat minor...