Word: gusto
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...provided one. With gusto. Over his book's 177 pages, he calls the Seminar "a 10-year exercise in academic self-promotion" and a "self-indulgent charade" and accuses Funk of "grandiosity and hucksterism." More substantively, not only does he find the Seminar wildly unrepresentative of scholarly consensus on the New Testament today; he thinks it "extraordinarily difficult" to avoid the impression that it is not hostile "to any traditional understanding of Jesus as defined by the historic creeds of Christianity...
More specifically, I bring some passions based on my experiences. I've loved politics ever since I covered it as a newspaper reporter in Louisiana (the place, along with Chicago and Boston, where it is practiced with the most gusto) and then as a correspondent for this magazine. We must convey the human entertainment of campaigns, and also their true meanings...
...plays--spoiler or kingmaker or king--Buchanan has already remodeled the tone and the substance of the G.O.P. race. Despite Census Bureau figures and polls that show flat wages are a central concern of most Americans, Buchanan is the only G.O.P. candidate to address the issue directly and with gusto. The left-wing Nation magazine calls Buchanan "the closest thing to a genuine populist in the 1996 race." The others seem to have found no way to talk about income inequality without offending their affluent base of supporters and campaign contributors. While Buchanan strikes a populist note...
Reagan Messer plays the Jester who informs the town of the Prince's search with a lot of gusto, but has no vivid choreography to back her up. Paul Thrussell as the Father, and Robin Ries as the Mother, also flail around randomly...
Kassebaum has undertaken the task of cutting $10 billion in federal loans and grants with repulsive gusto. The most ludicrous part of her plan calls for colleges to pay a two percent fee on all federal loans. Perhaps the senator needs another lesson in basic economics, this time on efficient taxes...