Word: olympian
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Reading these somewhat solemn maxims out of context suggests one reason why later and lesser minds have sometimes been misled into supposing that a good deal of Washington's genius consisted of a somewhat Olympian manner...
...Republicans, out of office, had fewer officially famous men to sound the tocsin in their behalf. Their candidates had to campaign with less Olympian aid. Nevertheless, the Gallup poll showed them winning somewhere between five and 25 seats in the House...
...have been impressed and encouraged by ... [finding] an Olympian fortitude which, far from being based upon complacency, is only the mask of an inflexible purpose and the proof of a sure, well-grounded confidence in the final outcome...
...listened with well-simulated interest while I, dripping with perspiration like a municipal sprinkler, read on and on, and while in the semi-darkness my fellow students heaved oc-occasional gusty sights of weariness; but one's reward came with a few benign words of approval which seemed an Olympian benedicton...
Students who saw Mr. Kittredge only in the lecture room, and especially in large courses, has a very imperfect knowledge of the nature of the man. His Olympian front and magisterial manner positively terrified some of his hearers. He was not a man, it seemed to take liberties with, and he had, in fact, a sense of personal dignity which was perhaps commoner in an earlier generation...