Word: esteeming
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...marries Wanda, daughter of Arturo Toscanini. Father-and sonin-law perform together. Their concerts are sellouts, their records collectors' items. Money, fame, esteem-everything comes quickly to Horowitz-except English. At the White House, when he is presented to Mrs. Hoover, he bows and says, "I am delightful...
...grandeur of nature." His name is Valancourt, and his idea of passionate lovemaking is to beseech, if Emily thinks him "not unworthy such honour," whether he "might be permitted sometimes to enquire after your health." She, almost fainting with emotion: "I will acknowledge that you possess my esteem." He: "O Emily! this moment is the most sacred of my life...
...sees us Christians growing visibly in unity that it will accept through us the divine message of peace." Paul, replying in Latin, described the meeting as a rebuilding of "a bridge that for centuries had lain fallen between the Church of Rome and Canterbury: a bridge of respect, of esteem and charity." The two men sealed the symbolic reconciliation of the churches by a "kiss of peace"-actually an embrace...
...student organization allows him to send students to the homes of Episcopalians who have just been accepted to Harvard. Many other United Ministry members send letters at the beginning of the fall term to all who fill out the religious preference cards. This procedure is not held in universal esteem: "This preference card business has no relation to reality," Blanning complains. "By the sophomore year most undergraduates realize that filling them out isn't required...
Erhardt himself plays Andrew Undershaft, and does so forcefully. However, I would question his interpretation. Undershaft should be an obnoxious man. When the audience is forced to admit that what he says is true, it should be regretfully, as Shaw puts it, "with a pain in the self-esteem." We should begrudge the nobility of Undershaft's thought. As Erhardt played the role, his manners were already too noble, his voice too Stentorian...