Word: faux
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...image. Whether that comes from Nadal himself is tough to say. Tennis stars can remain children long into their careers. Many players turn pro in their mid-teens. In the player's lounge at the Paris Masters, top pros in their late teens or early twenties lay around on faux-zebra-skin couches while their managers hustled the phones. The most popular section of the players' restaurant was a wall filled with jars of candy and licorice, and back at the hotel players spent a good portion of their time playing video games together. Even in this setting, there...
...even a Baptist pastor with crooked teeth, no personal fortune but an amazing ability to communicate. His sixth book is part memoir and part political treatise, full of policy proposals, like a national sales tax, and harsh words for foes, including "left of center" Mitt Romney and the libertarian "faux-cons" of the Republican Party. But its emotional heart is a portrait of what might be called Huckabee's America, a place where long-haul truckers lead campaign rallies, Chuck Norris is a political kingmaker and everyone shops at Sam's Club. Huckabee still predicts a populist revolution in which...
...race-sensitive campus, mistaking someone for someone else of the same race is a major faux pas. But only in some cases: Mixing up the names of two Caucasians might annoy them, but it’s no cause for outcry or debate. On the other hand, mixing up the names of two people within an ethnic minority seems to represent a more damning error, a revealed ignorance of diversity within that ethnic group. This double standard is unfair. Mixing up two people of the same race only betrays lack of a properly attuned eye, not dormant stereotypes or racist...
...screened-in-porch men. So by cutting down the yule tree, my dad meant climbing into the attic and bringing down the tinsel-covered bits of plastic and tubing, then assembling them into something resembling Tannenbaum form. Yes, though it shames me to say it now, we were a faux-fir family...
...these thirsty plants can threaten local water supplies. Jatropha, known as the “graveyard weed” is an invasive species that has never been studied on a large scale. It may produce a greener gas for others, but a monoculture of jatropha would be an environmental faux pas here...