Word: patronize
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Elsie's will be closing December 30th. After 30 years, we are trying to relocate. Thank you for your patron...
...never took antiquity for granted, as Italians were apt to. He always seems to have thought of it as a marvelous spectacle that he, as a foreigner, was privileged to behold. "Questo giovane ha una furia del diavolo," remarked Marino, introducing him to one Roman patron -- This young man has the fury of a devil. Furia didn't simply mean rage; it suggested a state of inspiration, of contact with primeval forces that lie below the surface of culture -- the war god's frenzy, the satyr's beastliness, the erotic abandon of the maenad...
...bring about a reconciliation between the two factions. At one point the truce talks broke down over the Palestinian Authority's refusal to accept responsibility for the mayhem outside the mosque. Arafat and his aides blamed the bloodshed on third parties: Israel, Palestinians collaborating with Israel, and Iran, a patron of Hamas...
...ventures: that star worship is a virus, carried by the popular media and infecting anyone who has a little talent and big gaudy dreams. The difference is that, in many other shows, the Warner Bros. star whom the hero might dream of being is not Cagney but Bette Davis, patron saint of bitchery, proto-queen of camp...
...policy is at once principled and self-interested. In demanding that the Islamists who reject violence be given a greater say in the political structure of Algeria, America lives up to its calling as international patron saint of democracy. The United States also makes clear that political Islam is not to be confused with its most radical manifestations. That is to say, Islamic fundamentalism ought not conjure up images of the World Trade Center bombing or the vicious anti-Americanism of the current government in Iran...