Word: relished
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...along since Browning, radiating a cheeky sense of the ridiculous. At one point Candeloro's answering-machine tape told callers to leave a message because he might be with a beautiful young woman. At the moment he sports a tiny cross in his ear, "so small," he says with relish, "the judges...
Apparently, Leland has seen "Philadelphia" one too many times. He's watched Jason Robards's character pour out "the poison in his soul" with perverse relish. It's a dream world of, well, clear-cut moral issues--a world where the reporter can say with smug confidence, "Homophobia seems like such a simple issue. We've all known homophobes...
...Crimson would get its 26th and sweetest win over the Big Red in 31 tries, and it would relish...
...want to be the Grinch. I don't relish the position of condemning other students' religious practices. But by putting their tree--"X-mass," Christmas, Holiday, or whatever you call it--in my dining hall, those students are forcing me to confront the ideology of Christian communal identity three times...
Often after Johnson won his way over someone, he would tell the story to others with relish, burnishing and enlarging the tale as he went. He did that in another call to Senator Russell relating how he had persuaded Chief Justice Earl Warren to chair the assassination commission. "You know what happened? Bobby ((Kennedy)) and them went up to see ((Warren)) today, and he turned them down cold and said no. Two hours later, I called him and ordered him down here, and he didn't want to come, and I insisted he come. He came down here...