Word: swear
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WHICH ARTIST'S PERFORMANCE TO buy is a matter of taste, which cannot be explained but can most definitely be cultivated. If there's a piece you really like, try to listen to another performance of it. You may be shocked by the difference. Classical music lovers swear by certain artists' performances of certain pieces or certain composers...
EVERY YEAR, I swear I'm going to miss the Oscars. Then, no matter how hard I try, I can't resist sticking my finger back in the proverbial electrical socket. This year was no exception. The Indiana-Syracuse game ended about two and a half hours too early, and the lack of any suitable Hogan's Heroes reruns meant certain doom. My dial was irresistibly drawn over...
While many people today might look askance at the power of psychic ability, these readers swear by their ability to convince doubters that there is truth to these concepts...
...food, you know, it not so bad. Not so good either. But what you want, K-Paul's in deh Quarter? Pour le dessert, bread pudding, I swear. . . Est-ce que ma mere etait dans la cuisine...
Even if works of the imagination could talk, they could never testify. Being fictional, how could they swear to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but? Nonetheless, a number of angry plaintiffs in recent years have brought libel suits charging that they were represented, and misrepresented, by fictional characters in stories, novels and films. The latest such suit, against the film version of Sylvia Plath's novel The Bell Jar, ended last week with a court-endorsed settlement that sent a cautionary and somewhat paradoxical message: when you make things up, be sure to tell the truth...