Biden Team’s Message for Democrats Pining for an Alternative: Get Over It
A lot of Democrats wish President Biden were not running this fall, but no one who matters to him seems willing to suggest he step aside.
Biden Team’s Message for Democrats Pining for an Alternative: Get Over It
A lot of Democrats wish President Biden were not running this fall, but no one who matters to him seems willing to suggest he step aside.
Edward Koren, 87, Whose Cartoon Creatures Poked Fun at People, Dies
For six decades in The New Yorker and elsewhere, his hairy, toothy, long-nosed characters offered witty commentary on the foibles of the American middle class.
People used to pine for the plucky spirit of Britain during world war two. Now we're living through a pandemic – and life on the Home Front is a real chore. Is this the death of nostalgia? From 1843
A blot against America
But Donald Trump’s ill-fated policy of caging children will hurt his party more than him
THERE is a moment in “The Plot Against America”, Philip Roth’s tale of America succumbing to 1930s-style authoritarianism, when the nine-year-old protagonist experiences a profound revulsion at the foibles on which wickedness thrives. “Never in my life had I so harshly judged any adult,” he recalls of his Jewish aunt’s preening over a brief interaction with the anti-Semitic president, Charles Lindbergh. “Nor had I understood till then how the shameless vanity of utter fools can so strongly determine the fate of others.” That is as much respite as the recently deceased author, who combined a stubborn faith in America with a gloomy view of its politics, allows his reader. There is no chance of America sharing his awakening. The power of the boy’s epiphany lies not only in its clarity, but also in its futility.
Though America has experienced many moral corrections, from abolitionism to the civil-rights movement, they have never come in the emetic moment Mr Trump’s critics pine for.
pine for sth/sb Meaning in the Cambridge English Dictionary
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pine for sth/sb definition: to want or miss something or someone very much: . Learn more.
noun
plural noun: foibles
- 1.a minor weakness or eccentricity in someone's character."they have to tolerate each other's little foibles"
- 2.FENCINGthe part of a sword blade from the middle to the point.
plucky
adjective
informalcrack up
— phrasal verb with crack verb
UK
/kræk/ US
/kræk/
informal
emetic
ɪˈmɛtɪk/
adjective
- 1.(of a substance) causing vomiting.
noun
- 1.a medicine or other substance which causes vomiting.
blot
blɒt/
noun
- 1.a dark mark or stain made by ink, paint, dirt, etc.
"a blot of ink"e
- 2.BIOCHEMISTRYa procedure in which proteins or nucleic acids separated on a gel are transferred directly to an immobilizing medium for identification.
verb
- 1.dry (a wet surface or substance) using an absorbent material.
"Henry blotted the page" - 2.mark or stain (something).
"the writing was messy and blotted"
preen
(verb) To dress or groom (oneself) with elaborate care.
Synonyms:
dress, plume, primp
Usage:
He preened in front of the mirror for a half an hour before leaving to meet his date.
━━ v. （鳥がくちばしで）（羽を）整える; 身づくろいをする; ((〜 oneselfで)) 鼻にかける ((on)).
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