Word: rigueur
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...with the enigma of woman over the mystery of man. She owns the center of his imagination, while the fate of man works the margins. Perhaps this is why so many men have taken the Mafia oath of silence about their hopes and fears. Strong and silent remain de rigueur...
...trumpeter apart from scruffy rockers and fusionists. Back in his Jazz Messengers days, Marsalis would go onstage in tennis shoes and overalls. "But once we started to talk about appearance," says Butler, "Wynton began to epitomize what jazz musicians ought to look like." Indeed, sartorial elegance has become de rigueur among the new generation of jazzmen...
Luise Rainer THE GOOD EARTH. In an era when demeaning racial stereotypes were de rigueur, she won a 1937 Best Actress Oscar for her dignified depiction of a poor Chinese farmer...
That kind of creative thinking about political forms has become de rigueur as the 20th century draws to a close. When Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev visited Canada on his way to the U.S. last May, reporters asked him if he felt any sympathy for Mulroney's problems with nationalism. He ducked the question with a long answer praising "national honor" but rejecting "negative" forms of "supernationalism." In fact, Gorbachev's troubles -- with at least three of the 15 Soviet republics bent on full independence and most others demanding sovereignty -- are far more severe than the Canadian Prime Minister...
...became an epitome of the partitioning of Europe, the overarching symbol of the cold war and one of the places where the Western alliance and the Warsaw Pact came gunsight to gunsight. After the magnificent oratory of John F. Kennedy's "Ich bin ein Berliner" speech, it was de rigueur for U.S. Presidents -- and other Western leaders -- to come and shake their fists at the Wall and call down imprecations against those who had conceived and built it. But the barrier also stood as a reminder of the limits of power in the nuclear age. Paradoxically, the Wall, despised though...