Word: proclaimingly
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...have been displaced during the war raging in the Balkans. Yet I struggle with my disbelief at the inaction of those of us who hope to erase genocide from the planet, from President Clinton to the politically and religiously active communities at Harvard. How dare we sit back and proclaim with self-assurance that our ceremonies, will prevent--and indeed, are currently preventing--genocide from taking place again? Until we assure that genocide is not happening anywhere, until our reminders stir us to action, our ceremonies will be in vain...
After winning the first game 4-2 and losing the second in an extrainning squeaker, 1-0, the Crimson players were ready to proclaim their recent mini-slump over...
...when she did not carry her argument to its logical zenith--"But MOM, I wanted to be on the Committee!" Her fourth paragraph was particularly telling when she wrote, "I applied to be on the reevaluation committee. I was not accepted." At that point, she could have chosen to proclaim her own virtues and attempted to explain why she was a strong applicant; instead, she childishly degenerated into implying that somehow ALL of the committee members are underqualified, "entrenched" pals of Mike Beys...
Names possess a peculiar indelible power -- subversive, evocative, satirical, by turns. The name is an aura, a costume. Dickens knew how names proclaim character -- although anyone named Lance is bound to hope that that is not always true. Democrats used to have fun with "George Herbert Walker Bush." The full inventory of the pedigree, formally decanted, produced a piled-on, Connecticut preppie-Little Lord Fauntleroy effect that went nicely with the populist crack that Bush "was born on third base and thought he had hit a triple...
...Shakespeare exam, I think I'll just keep hitting the snooze button, or just not set my alarm at all, sleep as late as I want, study at my leisure. On the 26th, I'll show up at Marge's door, pen and blue book in hand, and proclaim in earnest intent, "Miserable Belated Examination...