Word: sermonses
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His transformation has been a painful and slow one. As a charismatic priest in the progressive wing of the Roman Catholic Church, Aristide was used to making a strong impression without bearing much responsibility for the political consequences. Fierce and theatrical behind the pulpit, he preached grand ideas of justice...
Yet even his friends await Aristide's homecoming with mixed emotions. Aristide took a dim view of U.S. interference in the hemisphere: many of his sermons attacked the U.S. government -- though never, as he liked to point out, "the American people." After hearing so much from him about the evils...
While the Joe Restic regime should never be confused with tooth decay, its time had clearly passed. Restic's multiflex--once bold, exciting and dashing--had become outlandlish and revealing, like a bold tie a middle-aged man might wear to compensate fora retreating hairline. It was unreal, as were...
And second, it was a clear departure from the style of the old coach. Gone were the sometimes pedantic sermons of the aging Restic, and in were the Leno-like one-liners of a young, vibrant coach on the rise.
The first such functionary in this country appeared at the Louisville Courier-Journal in 1967. He was an "insider," who acted as a channel between readers and the editorship but did not evaluate the performance of the paper of publish occasional sermons on the sins of journalism.