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"I would hurl words into this darkness and wait for an echo, and if an echo sounded, no matter how faintly, I would send other words to tell, to march, to fight, to create a sense of hunger for life that gnaws in us all." ~Richard Wright, American Hunger, 1977

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Wednesday, September 7, 2011

Word of the Day...Use the word

aplomb

\uh-PLOM\ , noun;
1. Assurance of manner or of action; self-possession; confidence; coolness.
 
How will you use the word?
 
Quotes:
Then, unexpectedly, she picked up a microphone and began to sing. She sang several songs, handling herself with the aplomb of a professional entertainer.    -- "Rediscovering Japanese Life at a Bike's Pace", New York Times, April 24, 1988
In the jostling hubbub of Tim Hammack's kitchen at the Bay Area Rescue Mission, a homeless shelter in an eddy of urban need, it is about taking life as it comes. It means embracing the unexpected arrival of 200 flats of donated organic strawberries, say, or 600 pounds of bologna with equal culinary aplomb.         -- Patricia Leigh Brown, "Finding Purpose in Serving the Needy, Not Just Haute Cuisine", New York Times, June 13, 2009
His initial broadcasting success was due at least as much to his considerable professional aplomb as it was to his father's broadcasting connections.         -- John A. Jackson, American Bandstand: Dick Clark and the Making of a Rock 'n' Roll Empire
 

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