Word: sermonic
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...greats the necessary ingredients of creativity, sophistication, and substance. Reading the book means slogging through a wearing morass of self-aggrandizing anecdotes, utopian musings, and kitschy catchphrases, none used more liberally than “hot, flat, and crowded,” which appears in Friedman’s sermon so many times that it could give John McCain’s “maverick” a run for its money in the race of overuse. And, while the world may actually be as hot, flat, and crowded as the Minnesota State Fair, Friedman’s readership...
...DELHI, INDIA Dream Over "No one dares mention the word shares in our house these days," whispers New Delhi software engineer Sandeep Goyal, "especially not when Dad's around." It's soon evident why. His father, a retired banker, is watching a religious sermon on a Sony flat-screen TV that, along with Sandeep's shiny new HP laptop, is a very visible sign of newfound affluence in the living room of the Goyals' modest home. "I warned him," the ex-banker says suddenly. "Never put all your eggs in one basket. He should have invested in government bonds...
Vowell decided to write about the Puritans as the idea of American exceptionalism became more prevalent in the press. Her interest was sparked particularly by former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor’s reading of the Puritan sermon that referred to America as “a city upon the hill...
When John Winthrop delivered this sermon in 1630, Vowell said, he wanted to remind America that, “The eyes of the world are upon us and we could fail...
...armchair histories Assassination Vacation and The Partly Cloudy Patriot, injects a bit of Technicolor into her portraits of the stereotypically drab colonists: feisty prefeminist Anne Hutchinson, semicrazed zealot Roger Williams and the colony's first governor, John Winthrop, who coined the phrase city on a hill in a 1630 sermon to describe his hopes for the settlement. That vision--of a community of God's chosen people that would inspire the world--forms the core of Vowell's argument: that the Puritans' beliefs begot an American exceptionalism that, at its best, undergirded a nation's faith in liberty and equality...