[responsivevoice] taut [/responsivevoice] [ tawt ] Quotation: When you’re telling taut, tight storytelling that has any kind of built-in plot twist elements, you tend to want to stack everything up on top of itself as opposed to letting things breathe and be languid in terms of the passage of time. Julie Plec Social Example: Did you […]
[responsivevoice] promulgate [/responsivevoice] [ prom-uhl-geyt ] Quotation: The historical basis for the gap between the black middle class and underclass shows that ending discrimination, by itself, would not eradicate black poverty and dysfunction. We also need intervention to promulgate a middle-class ethic of success among the poor, while expanding opportunities for economic betterment. Henry Louis Gates […]
[responsivevoice] oust [/responsivevoice] [ oust ] Quotation: In politics, my role model would be a very weird one – our second emperor, Pedro the Second. He was a person with no vanity. He cared a lot about the public interest. He cared a lot about Brazil evolving as an important country. And he didn’t ask much […]
[responsivevoice] deference [/responsivevoice] [ def-er-uh ns ] Quotation: Democrats, myself included, tend to respect and value expertise and find that people who have established a record of accuracy and developed a model that’s proven to be beneficial over time should be people accorded great deference when they opine on a topic that they have demonstrated past mastery […]
[responsivevoice] squalid [/responsivevoice] [ skwol-id ] Quotation: I started playing music around 13 or 14, played jazz in high school, and played other stuff in college. After college, I tried to make it as a musician. I lived in a big squalid house full of dudes outside of Boston. We were all musicians. We built […]
[responsivevoice] dreary [/responsivevoice] [ dreer-ee ] Quotation: I have a lot of alter-egos: I would love to be a back-up singer for someone someday. I have an electronic side-project. I have a ’90s grunge side project; I have a piano project… I have this industrial, goth-electronic song, super creepy sounding, just really dark and dreary. […]
[responsivevoice] galvanize [/responsivevoice] [ gal-vuh-nahyz ] Quotation: The whole thing was done for internal political reasons to galvanize and unify the country against the Americans, and if they hadn’t had that immediate opportunity they would have found another one. Lloyd Cutler Social Example: Did you miss out on reading this Word of the Day? Catch […]
[responsivevoice] consensus [/responsivevoice] [ kuh n-sen-suh s ] Quotation: Reforming public education, cutting property taxes, fixing adult and child protective services and funding our budget can all occur when Democrats and Republicans engage in consensus and cooperation – not cynicism and combat. Rick Perry Social Example: Did you miss out on reading this Word of the Day? […]
[responsivevoice] plausible [/responsivevoice] [ plaw-zuh-buhl ] Quotation: Everyone has noticed how hard it is to turn our thoughts to God when everything is going well with us… While what we call ‘our own life’ remains agreeable, we will not surrender it to Him. What, then, can God do in our interests but make ‘our own […]
[responsivevoice]entrenched [/responsivevoice] [ en-trench ] Quotation: If you’re entering anything where there’s an existing marketplace, against large, entrenched competitors, then your product or service needs to be much better than theirs. It can’t be a little bit better, because then you put yourself in the shoes of the consumer… you’re always going to buy the […]