Word: impartation
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...each other's lives with a bewildering ease, alluding with cryptic statements to another part of their lives, outside the bounds of Brinnin's knowledge: These are not real people, but characters from another time. On the verge of recognition or oblivion, they appear briefly to impart a glimpse of their lives, haunted, driven, fleeting...
...rundowns are only a part of a manager's game. More difficult is instilling in a pitcher the wholly implausible belief that he can throw a ball past a hitter, or to convince a batter that he can hit a ball traveling 90 m.p.h. A good manager can impart confidence in myriad ways: leaving a pitcher in the game to work his way out of trouble, letting a batter swing away on a 3-0 count, praising on the bench, and doing the dressing down in private. Says Baltimore's Earl Weaver, the winningest manager in baseball today...
...masa harina. So it is with the press briefings of "the Bear," as Illinois-born James Brady calls himself. Even when he has nothing of substance to say, his witty affability can calm hungry reporters. At one point during the transition when he had no inside news to impart. Brady disarmed disappointed newsmen with a typical wisecrack: "I've gotten so bad on giving out information that the IRS has promulgated a new ruling. Lunches with me are not tax deductible any more...
Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers. -Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights...
...with symbols, with faith and luck. Whatever his talents, Eisenhower was an extraordinarily lucky man; he seemed to arrive at the White House between great disasters, and he did nothing to hurry new ones along. The present idea of the Eisenhower years, however, the marmoreal glow that they impart to Reagan in some people's minds, is a nostalgic distortion, an unconsciously artful forgetfulness about what the Eisenhower years were really like...