Word: proclaiming
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...many people who go through this process, the depth of cumulative practical sacrifice (social isolation from their community; loss of time for schoolwork) and emotional investment (enduring verbal abuse, emotional attachment to other pledges, fear of failure) hinders their ability to stop, as it did mine. While many boldly proclaim what they would or would not let happen to them if they ever “pledged,” they incorrectly assume that they would be free from any emotional or physical trauma that would impair their judgment. In the midst of such an experience, one does not always...
...smoke pot at eight in the morning. To top it off, back in freshman year, I would inevitably run into someone from a New York prep school who would tell me about his or her uniform. “You had a uniform?” I would wistfully proclaim. “Yeah of course,” they would reply, slightly annoyed at my impertinence. “The uniform from when I went to school in Paris was adorable too, especially the jumper and the school mandated beret.” At these points I usually felt...
...happy. On a happiness scale from 1 to 6, “wash, dress, personal care” scores a solid 4.31, above cooking, “voluntary activities” (whatever those entail) and watching television, and just behind reading. As this suggests, and as numerous Cosmo articles proclaim, we are “doing this...
...same sort of thing is happening to Baptists and Presbyterians," she says. "Except for one big thing. They are not media figures." Notes Charisma's Grady: "There's something about someone who is excited about the things of the Holy Spirit that makes them want to get up and proclaim it" - often on TV. "But you'd better have character, or there's going to be a national scandal...
Greenspan is the first to proclaim that his job was made dramatically easier by the fall of the Berlin Wall, the technology-fueled transformation of global business and the long decline in the price of oil and other commodities. He was not a magician, just a very competent central-bank chief with a knack for being in the right place at the right time (not only at the Fed: as a young man, he studied music alongside future saxophone great Stan Getz, learned statistics from the guy who devised the Index of Leading Economic Indicators and thought his first deep...