Word: egos
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Speaking of words, when talking about Bush Minor, I suggest using words like "pathetic," "pitiful" and "puerile." If those don't strike a cord with the public, try "irresponsible," "irritating" and "immature." I guarantee this will boost your alpha male quotient as well as your ego...
Thus the session turned into a 45-minute mutual stroking session. "What's the difference between a columnist and a reporter?" asked Platt. "Ego!" His audience - mostly, of course, reporters rather than columnists - roared. Even when someone managed to raise the question of why Wolf cast Platt as a lead when, after all, the jowly actor is about as leading-man dashing as a smoked ham, it was in almost cringingly apologetic terms: "I mean, he, he doesn't look like a conventional TV star - he looks like he could...
Bill, however, made a drastic mistake. His conscience was usurped by his ego. As Bill announced his "boredom" with the vocation of Massachusetts governor, he clearly adopted delusions of grandeur by announcing his candidacy for a Massachusetts Senate seat. Though voters might toss aside their party tendencies and elect a Republican governor, a Republican senator is an entirely different story. Attempting to barge into the domain of the Kennedys does not increase popularity in Massachusetts. Though he was running against an equally undesirable character, John F. Kerry--the man who plainly used his wife's ketchup fortune to fund...
...fellow scientists trumpeting his success? Or talking him up for a Nobel Prize? Why, in fact, is this cherubic-looking, blue-eyed ex-surfer hated by so many colleagues, who have called him everything from a greedy megalomaniac to a Hitler? Forget about easy explanations, such as his outsize ego (yes, one of the samples he is analyzing is rumored to contain his own DNA) or his penchant for doing science by press release (yes, he keeps his door open to reporters) or his tendency to do not science but, as pioneer DNA mapper James Watson sneered, tedious assembly-line...
...Civil War, the first modern war, with its industrial carnage, was imminent. Whitman cherished a magnificent illusion that he could save the union with a poem - an act of imaginative cohesion that would resolve the great American paradox of individual dignity in democratic mass. His "I" was an immense ego joined to an even larger "we," so that he wrote in Leaves of Grass, "[I am] one of the great nation, the nation of many nations," and in the embrace of his rhetoric (bombast that would go gossamer, radiant with the genius of his ardor, his generosity), he became endlessly...