Word: purport
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...coupled with with, passion, and intelligence, has always been the touchstone of the successful essayist. "Only a person who is congenitally self-centered has the effrontery and stamina to write essays" advised E.B. White. Didion's collected pieces in The White Album and Slouching Towards Bethlehem frankly do not purport to be objective social history, and we would be missing the point to regard them as such. Rather, we read these meditations upon Bogota and Malibu, John Wayne and Charles Manson to learn how an acutely sensitive and articulate individual managed to harrow the age. Subjectivity is the point...
Blume said the SJC dealt with a similar complaint about a year ago and decided that "if a student was appearing and not practicing law, the court has nothing to do with it. The court doesn't purport to govern anything except the practice of law," Blume said...
This tends to be a problem with an awful lot of films which purport to take us on a journey into mental illness and unusual perception--and it is really a problem inherent in mental illness itself. Despite the fact that magic, hallucinations and illusions are strange to most of us, within their own syntax, these symbols are reality. The odd, insane effects are normal and real within their own context, which is what makes it so terribly frightening...