Word: revell
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...consider myself to be a peace-loving person with a high regard for the sanctity of life. I would not condone an ill-conceived plan of retaliation resulting in the unnecessary loss of more American lives, nor do I revel in the thought of killing innocent civilians thousands of miles away. But let’s face it: an act of war was made on the United States of America on Sept. 11, resulting in unfathomable human loss and incalculable property damage. As a nation, we simply cannot and should not ignore the fact that nearly 7,000 innocent people...
...serves up five standards, six strong originals and a blues, performed in a blunt, bracing style full of sharp corners and spicy chords and often startlingly reminiscent of his no-nonsense horn playing. What took him so long? You don't need to be a full-time pianist to revel in the part-time playing of this switch-hitting jazz master...
...blues is a pick-up. It's not a letdown." Although he sang sad songs like "Hobo Blues" and "My First Wife Left Me" and "It Serves Me Right (To Suffer)", Hooker was searching for catharsis, not pathos; he was looking to chase pain away, not to simply revel in it. "What do music do? It keeps the world turning," Hooker once said. "If there wasn't no music, this world would be a sad place to live...
...deception had the desired effect. I withheld judgement on the existence of Santa for another year, and my parents could revel in my naivete. But the next Christmas "Santa" gave my sister a toy that I remembered seeing before in our house. Either Santa was having an economically trying year and had helped himself to some of our older toys, or my parents had misled me all along. Learning the truth was a disappointment, but even more disturbing was the belittlement and the manipulation that previous "evidences" implied. The world had connived to pull one over on me, and that...
...majority of Bush supporters, will vote on account of their already established ideological preferences. On the Republican side of the aisle, principled partisans who aren't also wealthy tend to derive their conservatism from religious fundamentalism. Like characters in Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, these social conservatives revel in Bush's pledge to uphold "traditional values" by legislative fiat. Their ideology of government-mandated morality includes, among other things, rights for the unborn but not for all the born...