Word: patronizing
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Sherry's greatest find is, no doubt, the letters--tender, imploring and naked--that Greene wrote over decades to Walston. The man often celebrated as the patron saint of doubters is here revealed as one of the romantics of the century ("You are the only real life there was: everything else was a drug to keep me going until you were with me"). Yet showcasing these letters gives us a sexual Greene at the expense of a mischievous Greene or the anguished Catholic Greene. And each time Greene's prose appears on the page, Sherry's seems more prosaic...
Sunny M. Lacefield, a patron of the Mass. Ave. store near Porter Square, said she will continue to come to Starbucks despite the increase in prices...
...time the door fell off the bus while we were driving,” said Joanna J. Parga ’07, a Long Island native and a frequent Fung Wah patron, with a laugh. “Another time, they tried to open the door but couldn’t, and we had to drive in circles until they got some guys...
...Perhaps the most influential priest in the shrine's history was Yuzon, an avid painter and powerful art patron who lived there in the late 1700s and whose portrait is among the shown works. He commissioned not just Jakuchu's flowers but also the fine mid-Edo-style door screens in the building's more public areas, where the priest would receive guests. Painted in the late 18th century by Okyo Maruyama, each screen has a different theme, such as cranes, tigers, wise men and waterfalls. Okyo was an important transitional figure in Japanese art, as painting moved toward...
...death and now entertains a fragile sense of rebirth: bad news and good news mixed up in a disconcerting way that you have to get used to. You have the metaphysical sense of having become a different person (you have certainly, at least for a time, stopped being a patron of Burger King), and you may sense that the rest of your life is borrowed time--an extension purchased by surgical slice-and-splice. Your life feels provisional and may be canceled at any time. You wake in the night listening for the burglar downstairs, the noises of your...