Word: stentorian
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...enterprise retains its blithe bite nearly three quarters of a century later. It has a smiling contempt for the electoral process and an acute ear for political B.S. Realizing that stump speechifying is the art of couching nonsense in stentorian cadences, they have a Southern Senator intone this bilgewater: "Not for us the entangling alliances of Europe, not for us the allying entanglances of Asia." Wintergreen, who gets high marks for oratory if not for geography, tells voters that he has campaigned "in the cornfields of Kansas, on the plains of Arizona, in the mountains of Nebraska...
...Soviet effort in Reykjavík is a far cry from their past stentorian sloganeering. Under Gorbachev, they have come to realize that cultivating international public opinion can boost their foreign policy. The new affability and reasonableness was first evident at the 1985 Shultz-Shevardnadze meeting in Helsinki and became more apparent at the Geneva summit. In Iceland, the style has come into...
...completely lacking in artistic merit, however. In general, the actors turn in quite stellar performances. Most praiseworthy is David N. Huyssen â02, who is captivating in the title role. His maturity and composure hold the production together. As he lingers agonizingly between quiet despair and stentorian wrath, he is monstrously sympathetic. One cannot help but feel pity and anger for his horrible situation and bewildering deeds...
...honorary doctorate in 1902, he bellowed disapproval at his alma mater. Biographer Edmund Morris tells the story with typically vivid prose: âHarvard, to Theodore, was a temple defiled by mugwumps, who congregated here to exchange the dull coins of anti-imperialism. Roosevelt launched into a stentorian defense of his island administrations and the public servants who sacrificed their careers to help âweaker friends along the stony and difficult path of self-government.ââ Earlier that day, Roosevelt had made the eyes of Harvard President Charles W. Eliot, Class...
...honorary doctorate in 1902, he bellowed disapproval at his alma mater. Biographer Edmund Morris tells the story with typically vivid prose: âHarvard, to Theodore, was a temple defiled by mugwumps, who congregated here to exchange the dull coins of anti-imperialism. Roosevelt launched into a stentorian defense of his island administrations and the public servants who sacrificed their careers to help âweaker friends along the stony and difficult path of self-government.ââ Earlier that day, Roosevelt had made the eyes of Harvard President Charles W. Eliot, Class...