Word: extollers
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Writers in every era have remade Jesus in the image that suited their personal or literary needs. In Milton's Paradise Regained, Christ is an intellectual who disdains "the people" as "a herd confus'd, a miscellaneous rabble who extol things vulgar." The 19th century skeptic Swinburne had a character say of Jesus, "O pale Galilean; the world has grown grey from thy breath." D.H. Lawrence equated the Resurrection with Jesus' awakening sexual desire. In the 1960s, S.G.F. Brandon saw the Nazarene as a sympathizer of the 1st century's Zealot guerrillas...
...enactment of the Pilgrims' landing at Plymouth Rock in December 1620 provides a speaker with a perfect opportunity to extol the sturdy example of that dauntless band of early settlers. On the 350th anniversary observance last week, the Rev. Billy Graham praised the faith of the founding fathers and warned: "Anything less than this will let us down and we will continue on the toboggan slide that will take us to the ash heaps of history." Alas, one of the modern-day Pilgrims thereupon took a pratfall into Plymouth Bay as he tried to step ashore...
...contract to promote the film in their own advertising. The possibilities are unlimited. In an X-rated movie, a couple may pause in bed to munch a breakfast cereal; then ads for the movie could appear on the boxes at the breakfast table. Or a female star could extol the comfort of her Gucci shoes every time she crossed the room. In a letter to prospective tie-in advertisers, Warner officers note that "the personalities in our motion-picture exposure are known characters, not hard-sell people, such as these unknowns who are paid to make commercials...
...state political leaders of the President's party. After them comes a helter-skelter militia of citizens, often sniping at one another, enemies of the President as well as friends: banker, lawyer, merchant, chief, cleric, doctor, scholar, journalist, student, housewife. Some advance to plead a cause, others to extol, still others to criticize and fix blame...
THEY HAVE developed rituals for teaching everything here in dear old dusty academe, and Lawrence is no exception. For you can't just read a novel by Mr. D. H. Lawrence; no, that would be to elude the proper ritual. Instead, you must first listen to Sectionm?? extol the importance and uniqueness of Lawrence's place in English lit. Then you must nod in understanding agreement as Sectionman points out Rogaine imagery and influence from Mr. Lawrence's "real life." And, finally, just as somewhere in yourself you begin to feel that Lawrence really is pretty great, quite uncanny...