Word: flagrantly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Bleats of unchecked egoism are now so commonplace that self-glorification may be well on the way to becoming standard American style. Yet such an epidemic of flagrant braggadocio would have scandalized the country not long ago. Most Americans have always felt, as many still feel, dutybound to sniff at the ostentatious chest thumper and look down on all public boasting. Brazen self-admiration has never been considered criminal, nor necessarily degenerate, but it has always been judged tacky - poor form, at best. Good form has always required reticence about one's virtues. To think well of oneself...
...braggart, of course, has always been present on the American scene, and boasting has been tolerated when it hap pened to come from certain types - poets, entertainers, politicians - who were considered beyond the pale anyhow. It was all right for Walt Whitman to indulge his flagrant self-celebration ("I dote on myself, there is that lot of me and all so luscious") because, as a poet, he was lost to gentility anyway...
...Bill Blakemore reported at 12:36 (E.D.T.) that the alleged assassin was an Arab. A CBS medical expert, using a text book illustration to explain the Pope's injuries, inadvertently showed a diagram of the female anatomy. There were some lapses in taste as well, though the most flagrant came from the public. Like sitcom and sports fans in earlier news crises, hundreds of viewers jammed TV station switchboards across the country to complain that their afternoon soap operas were interrupted. -By Janice Castro. Reported by Peter Ainslie and Robert Celine/New York, with other bureaus
...hijackers, for instance, but had actively encouraged Islamabad to capitulate. Though their troops clearly controlled the airport, Soviet authorities turned down at least five U.S. requests that they help end the standoff. The Soviet claim: they had no responsibility for "the actions of the Afghan government." So flagrant had Moscow's obstructionism appeared that State Department Spokesman William Dyess concluded: "I don't see how the Soviets can entirely escape responsibility for what took place...
...known to occur in white culture) they would never have been shown on this campus or any other in the country. The callousness of the Peabody, its director, Karlovsky, and others in permitting this material to be presented at Harvard is a reflection of haughty insensitivity and a flagrant disregard for the feelings of our Black students and staff. This attitude has become more and more prevalent around Harvard...