Word: flaunting
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...home town has always been a pretty great place for a liberal. Almost half Hispanic, with a Catholic Church that still remembers liberation theology and an Anglo community that still remembers the 1960s, Santa Fe likes to flaunt its status as one of the most progressive towns in the country. Two years ago, Santa Fe struck again. It passed a municipal living wage of $8.50, the highest in the country. With a seven to one vote by the City Council, one in six Santa Feans got a raise. It was a good day. Since Harvard started paying its workers...
...self-esteem. Rose may not feel comfortable in a thong, but sexual confidence abounds the minute she steps into her black stilettos, reminding every person who’s ever gained the “Freshman 15” or felt irredeemably unattractive, that everyone has something to flaunt...
Here was a former ambassador, an Africa expert, who could flaunt his pictures with past Presidents, Democrats and Republicans alike--including one with President George H.W. Bush, who had called Wilson a hero for his service as charg d'affaires in Baghdad before the first Gulf War. When Wilson wrote in the New York Times on July 6, 2003, nearly four months after the war began, that "intelligence related to Iraq's nuclear weapons program was twisted to exaggerate the Iraqi threat," it represented the most damaging charge yet against the Administration's handling of prewar intelligence. Wilson explained that...
...like a slowly descending sword of Damocles. (English majors and Crimson Key geeks, all together now: Phallic symbol.) Since Harvard students couldn’t recognize a social semaphore if it started tickling their genitals, party organizers decreed a red, green, and yellow clothing system, allowing happy couples to flaunt their gloating, we’re-better-than-you-and-get-laid-on-a-regular-basis attitudes and alerting virginal nebbishes to the wannabe whores in their wake. Gauche, but effective...
...structuralism, semiotics and the "Frankfurt school" of such neo-Marxist theorists as Jrgen Habermas and Theodor Adorno. They propose that law is no more than a means by which unjust power relations are dressed in the costume of eternal truths. Some of the C.L.S. adherents, like Kennedy, also flaunt a confrontational '60s style of incivility and antic provocation in relations with their colleagues. But at bottom, he is deadly serious. "The legalization of the rules," Kennedy inveighs, "the presentation of the rules as the consequence of a neutral, legal, analytic process, makes things that are rotten and unjust look...