Word: plodding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...turn off may be expressing the natural and inevitable resentment of the passive believer against the ecstatic believer. In his magisterial study Enthusiasm, the late Catholic scholar Msgr. Ronald Knox described the attitude of the religious enthusiast toward the world at large: "He will have no weaker brethren who plod and stumble, who (if the truth must be told) would like to have a foot in either world, whose ambition is to qualify, not to excel. He has before his eyes a picture of the early Church, visibly penetrated with supernatural influences; and nothing else will serve...
THERE is a portentous difference between Adlai Ewing ("Bear") Stevenson III and his famous father who affectionately gave him the animal nickname: the father, to many, had the look of a winner but lost, while the son often appears to plod through campaigns and wins...
...gone back to school. Most American media, of course, have portrayed the crisis as something which affects only a small number of irrelevant people; if you've read your New York Times, then you are aware that the average Canadian is unmoved by the spectacle and continues undisturbed to plod his weary way. On the other hand, very few observers have bothered to communicate the feeling of paralysis that has snared Trudeau's political opposition by the throat...