Word: flaunting
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...Marianne Moore loves to peer, and in such dependable sources as the National Geographic and the Illustrated London News. Like all true poets, she is an armchair explorer, her imagination serving as an inner eye. But anyone looking for soulful murk will not find it here. She does not flaunt her secret suffering: "The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence; not in silence but restraint...
...forever virgin and so goes right on flowering. Dr. Everett crossed two widely different varieties of petunia. One of the offspring was sterile; the flowers had proper female ovules but no fertile male pollen. By crossing and recrossing, Dr. Everett can now make most kinds of petunias sterile. They flaunt their flowers hopefully, inviting bees to visit them. The bees come as usual, but the flowers cannot dust them with fertilizing pollen. So the desperate virgin, to its own frustration and to the delight of flower lovers, blooms on unfulfilled until frost...
...save the susceptibilities of the delicate, I would like to suggest that the animal is a cow; certainly there are distinct traces of cow about it. It is well known that a cow is the most domestic and comfortable of animals. If it has any sex, it does not flaunt it. It might be said to maintain some sort of massive and conservative neutrality about the whole question...
Wells was finally received by British society, but neither then nor before did he try to deny his succession of mistresses. His wife Catherine, who died in 1927, had to learn to accept them. His intellectual friends considered him a Don Juan. Wells did not flaunt his women, but he never hesitated to be seen with them in public. One of them took care of him with complete devotion...
Hearst's Chicago Herold-American made the most of this opportunity to catch the "torturers" redhanded. Its headlines: FLAUNT PET TORTURE AT DOG SHOW! VISITORS SICKEN AT CRUEL SIGHT. A picture of a dog named Fluffy, which had a tube connecting its stomach to a pouch collecting gastric juices, was captioned: "In helpless torment, deprived of even the relief of barking a protest, Fluffy can only gasp in grip of [the University of Chicago's] Dr. N. R. Brewer." Another picture on the same page showed a dog on which a prostate operation had been performed. The Hearst...