Word: epithets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Secondly, on the basis of personal knowledge, I consider your epithet [crusty] about the cardinal discourteous and untrue. He is beyond question unbending on matters of principle-for example, Communism. But this has nothing to do with his personal characteristics. In five years of daily association, I have always found him unfailingly courteous and affable with everyone...
...gesture, and of moving--whether it be simply walking or a waltz or a Latin American rump-shaker. Vocally, she is not yet a hundred per cent effective; but she gets a good deal out of her monumental styganoric narrative. And what she does with the simple epithet "slut" has to be heard to be believed. In all, an impressive performance. Opposite her, Sandor Szabo does admirably in the largely passive role of the Commodore who is a potential successor to dad-in-the-closet...
...glittering words are on view; on page after page the reader's eye is caught by a lambent phrase that subtly calibrates a mood, or a rasping epithet that tears through surface felicity at exactly the point where the author wants granite to show. But before long, although Updike's gifts of language have no trace of falsity, the repeated realization of cleverness begins to be annoying. Unwillingly the reader commences to play put-and-take, acknowledging a score for the author after an especially well-put sentence, taking a point away when a mannerism becomes obvious...
...sounds a little like cubistic Browning. Like Browning, he seems to lack or at any rate to disdain the gifts of melody and phrase; though now and then, as in his lament for the passing of the civic virtues that once made Boston great, he gets off a sizzling epithet...
Painting an acute picture of Texas politics, Gonzalez described his struggle to overcome the epithet "liberal" in the special 20th Congressional district election November 4. "Liberalism is equated with all the works of the devil. If you're a liberal, you're a profligate spendthrift or a Red. To say the Word 'A.D.A.' is treason...