Word: vaunting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...What do you want in opera?" he demanded. "Imagination, feeling, poetry, romance. You don't want thinking. Musicians don't think. Delius is a world of fantasy, the miracle of English music. Yet these people who have the ears of Midas haven't the sense to vaunt...
...Full Nether Lip. Nelly was born, said the journals of the age, in a Covent Garden bawdyhouse, of a father unknown and a mother notorious as "old Madam Gwyn," a brandy-soak "that in one day could twenty quarts consume, / And bravely vaunt she durst it twice presume." (One day she durst, and the next she was fished out of a Chelsea brook; Nelly, rich and famous by then, gave her one of the flashiest funerals of the Restoration...
Protestants, says Niebuhr, should beware of denying authority to such a consensus of church thinking. "Protestantism is inclined to vaunt itself because of its liberty, as distinguished from Rome's authoritarianism. We fear that Roman Catholicism deifies the church. [But] does not Protestantism deify the individual conscience to an extent which gives men a sense of security about the 'dictates' of their conscience and no sense of repentance about the mixture of interest and self-seeking in the ideals of conscience...