Word: paean
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...border, hardly seems the ideal spot for an idyll. But lay down a strip of asphalt long enough for a Lear to land, then build a rich dude's dude ranch loaded with Old West ambiance--and, voilŕ, Lajitas, the Ultimate Hideout, is born. The resort stands as a paean to cowboy culture, attracting wealthy city slickers and adventure seekers...
...requires some patience from the audience, which is used to hearing politicians give smooth, market-tested replies to the tough questions. But the patience is rewarded. Webb has taken a spiritual journey over the past decade, launched by the research he did for Born Fighting, his nonfiction paean to his all-American ethnic group, the Scots Irish. "When I started studying Andrew Jackson, I realized that I was really a Jacksonian populist Democrat," Webb tells the crowd. "Jackson believed that you don't measure the health of a society at the apex but at the base. I believe that...
...gentlemen are somewhere in between, somewhere beyond politics, and necessarily, informed debate. For them, throwing Gatsby parties is simply what socialites do, just a bit of fun. There is no significance beyond this, no ironic wink, no nostalgic paean. The party must not be interrupted by the inconvenience of thought. To ask of ideas is thus to presume reflection where none existed. (A Fly Club member declined to comment, citing club policy not to talk to the press...
...unbending bureaucrat, but a basically gentle man with excellent listening skills and a gift with words. He has welcomed his longtime theological nemesis Hans K?ng for a long chat at the Pope's Castel Gandolfo. Benedict's first encyclical was not a finger-wagging treatise on doctrine, but a paean to Christian love. The sometimes shy pontiff has even begun to enjoy all the adoration heaped upon him by the piazzas full of faithful. Still, Benedict has drawn the line on doctrine, pushing through a previously languishing document that bars homosexuals from entering the seminary, while encouraging Catholic politicians...
...doughnut-covered, pink-clad Paris Hilton lookalike. This is the type of thing that you’d like to do if you could get away with it, which is exactly what the song is about. “The Yeah Yeah Yeah Song” is a paean to the misuse of power, featuring lines such as “If you could make everybody poor just so you could be rich, would you do it? Yeah yeah yeah yeah.” After all, if you could make a bunch of cops ravenously chase a pastry-bedecked socialite...