Word: vehementer
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...Everyone knows about Ray Lewis' problems with the law and his vehement rebuttals to allegations of his involvement in the murder of two men last year (though Lewis did plead guilty to obstruction of justice, a misdemeanor). But, now, Lewis has gone one step further. After winning the Super Bowl and being named MVP, He Is Not Going To Disney World. What is this world coming to? Trent Dilfer will be at the Magic Kingdom in his place...
...There are, of course, vehement objections to the far-reaching order, which many see as the President's bid to hijack the legacy created by Teddy Roosevelt's use of similar executive orders at the turn of the century. Others accuse the President of last-gasp politicking in an attempt to boost his own profile on way or another - if the floundering Mideast peace talks won't give cement his legacy, critics gripe, perhaps he thinks this move will...
...monster, no matter how improbable the events, there was always a "logical explanation," while Shaggy and Scooby's (Zoinks!) belief in the supernatural was always exposed as folly. Other myths of childhood had evaporated before my eyes. The idea of storks delivering children, a notion I was never that vehement about but was certainly familiar with, exploded with the decidedly non-avian birth of my sister. As I learned the standard magic card tricks that would only excite wonder in sympathetic adults or gullible children, the familiar mantra that "it's just a trick, there is no magic" began...
Personally, I was a vehement pop music hater in high school. My conception of good music included Dave Matthews Band, alternative rock, ska-punk and little else. (Alright, so I did always have an 80s fetish). I didn't listen to much besides that, resulting in constant radio-control battles in the car with my rap-loving younger brother. Watching TRL was like being assaulted by singing Teletubbies. I couldn't tell N'SYNC and the Backstreet Boys apart, in pictures or on the radio...
...vehement disapproval was occasioned not only by the "repulsive" figurative nature of these new paintings, but their frank politics as well. In addition to a deep appreciation for the everyday object, Guston was also profoundly aware of political and social upheaval, wars, famines, epidemics-not simply in his own time but throughout history-and introduced into his unique pictorialism figurative representations of, among other things, the Ku Klux Klan. As a Jewish-born man who changed his name from Goldstein in his twenties and who experienced first-hand the brutality and violence of the Klan, Guston felt acutely the very...