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 sagacious
• To see if it was sagacious enough, someone
said.”
• “We find him clean, merry and sagacious, a
wasteful eater and fond of fossils.”
• Surrounded by dark wood, seated in a cushy
chair, his fingers steepled and his gray hair
brushed back, sits a sagacious Clarence Avant.
• This also preserves the long-standing archetype
of the infallible, unflappable and sagacious
physician.
 sang-froid

• A British supermarket chain, Tesco, began rationing

antibacterial soap, wipes, and pasta after shoppers
emptied the shelves — an uncharacteristic display of
nerves in a society that prides itself on its sang-froid.
• When she learned that the show would be revived in New
York she wrote to the producers with kid sang-froid,
acknowledging the tragedy and assuring them that she
knew all the songs.
• Hearst, for instance, isn’t a yes man, and even he loses his
sang-froid as the situation takes a tragic turn.
• One of the attendees, who left the Nixon party soon after
the early returns presaged the trouncing, still displayed a
sense of sang-froid.
 Sardonic
• Known for his hard-charging lifestyle and sardonic wit,
Grosso was the unofficial historian of skateboarding,
always ready to share a story and insight into the sport
with the younger generation of skaters.
• In sardonic nonfiction and fiction films, Zwigoff combed
the land for American oddballs and pockets of wry
eccentricity.
• Candace is sharp, sardonic, and before the world ends,
slightly diffident.
• Narrator Euan Morton delivers the novel in a wonderful
range of voices and accents — his Scottish burr is
especially engaging, and his wry manner is wonderfully
suited to the novel’s sardonic wit and trapdoor plot.
 Sartorial
• It was an unceremonious, if by now expected,
conclusion to his career in Carolina, where his
Superman-referencing touchdown celebrations,
sartorial panache and dazzling, if sometimes uneven,
play vaulted the Panthers into relevance.
• The sartorial pleasures are nothing to scoff at, even
when you can’t say the same for the movie itself.
• the song’s first verse, Uzi defends his freaky sartorial
choices with crushing rationale: “They say, “Why your
chain it look like a choker?’
• This is exactly what latex does: disrupts sartorial
norms and creates controversy.
 Schadenfreude
• She’s withholding and Midwestern proud, but, when Lucy
asks for stories of home, her mother obliges, telling tales of
Amgash and its people, which she seasons with bitter humor
and a dash of Schadenfreude.
• A cloud of notoriety and Schadenfreude surrounds the Co-op
in a way that does not seem entirely fitting for a grocery store.
• Here, examining white-collar criminality and rich-white-lady
problems, it wraps raw nerves in layers of camp, to produce
both a cautionary tale about entitlement and a
Schadenfreude melodrama.
• I’m also interested in thinking about politics as comedic, by
which I don’t mean delightful or funny in the easy
Schadenfreude sense.
 sedulous
• And even the most sedulous fans of deregulation, such as
Douglas Holtz-Eakin of the American Action Forum, don’t
forecast additions to economic growth of more than a few
hundredths of a percentage point a year.
• She recommends unstinting regard for language and
sedulous habits of self-revision; then she throws in, like an
afterthought, an extra moral dimension: “Work on your
character.”
• As their hatred for Trump and his policies grew, they
became more sedulous in propagating fictitious stories.
• In his own right he remains one of jazz’s more sedulous
bandleaders, and later this year, he’ll release a new album
with his Captain Black Big Band.
 self-effacing
• And that was Bill to a tee: wily, cunning, self-
effacing.
• Over time, the self-effacing and unpretentious
Mr. Mubarak was eclipsed by one with an almost
imperial sense of entitlement.
• In 2016, Mrs. Johnson, self-effacing as ever at
98, seemed somewhat indifferent to the fuss
surrounding the feature film about her life.
• He calls you by your first name and prefers to be
more self-effacing than self-aggrandizing despite
his accomplished resume.
 semblance
• He recommends preserving as much semblance of
normalcy as possible, but strongly emphasized doing
so only if an individual is maintaining social
distancing.
• “There is no semblance of truth or responsibility left
in the vast majority of media reports.”
• In an injury-imposed isolation, working from home
with my leg propped up on the couch, dating felt like
a way to continue some semblance of a normal social
life.
• Still, legions are relying on professors to provide at
least a semblance of academic routine.
 sententious
• Mr. Comey himself, after allegedly leaking the secret
information to the press, penned a sententious
memoir suggesting the same info should remain
hidden from the American people “decades from now.”
• Meany’s sententious offerings were typically well-
stocked with school and neighborhood history.
• Rather than highlighting the perversity of slavery, his
sententious prose strains to upstage it.
• This is the foggy lens through which our most
sententious pundits are—week after week—doggedly
committed to viewing the state of American society.
 simulacrum
• A Baudrillardian simulacrum to soothe her through five years
in lockdown, while above ground presumably resembles a
scene from The Walking Dead.
• There's good reason to fear that Trump's reality-TV
simulacrum of a competent leader is working to fool
Americans.
• But the combination of iRacing’s realism and Podium eSports’
professional quality broadcast was an excellent simulacrum
— a “replacement” race in nearly every sense of the world.
• While practicing social distancing, it is important to rely
instead on technologies that provide a simulacrum for true
contact, especially those that allow us to see each other, such
as Skype and FaceTime.
 sinecure
• And popes often rewarded those bishops with
sinecures.
• If that sounds like an executive role, an honorary
sinecure, it is not.
• Global financial stability is worth a lot more than a
sinecure.
• Michael Flynn was never going to be one of those
studious, intellectual military leaders who quote
from Sun Tzu’s “Art of War” and settle into Ivy
League sinecures after taking off the uniform.
 Solecism
• An egregious linguistic solecism vitiated the otherwise
well-written and informative March 5 news article “Ben
Carson to leave HUD at end of Trump’s term.”
• Getting your itses mixed up is the greatest solecism in
the world of punctuation.
• Each week he’d pass around a handout titled Your
Liberal Arts $s at Work, which collected solecisms
perpetrated by students in the previous week’s writing.
• After a minute of refreshing, Palmeri followed up with a
second tweet, comparing the commission’s neologism
to one of George W Bush’s most famous solecisms,
“misunderestimated”.
 Solicitous (solicitude)
• When the 79-year-old star took a tumble on the
Baftas red carpet a few weeks ago, I did think his
girlfriend, 40, looked slightly more disdainfully
appalled than solicitous.
• She was tiny and solicitous, a soft, sweet lady in a
dress.
• The emails appeared to be solicitous in nature with
the university offering Gianniiulli a special tour of
the campus for him and his eldest daughter.
• The official responded again with another
potentially solicitous offer.
 splenetic
• Parlá is loose with his fields of color, but
never splenetic.
• Kalder proposes Lenin as the originator of
the modern totalitarian style in prose,
adopting Marx’s splenetic polemical tone for
the purposes of Communist revolution.
• But Trump seems even more splenetic of
late.
• Then I read “splenetic” in the third
paragraph.
 squelch
• Most of the extension funding will be focused on
squelching the current outbreak, not preventing the
next.
• "We find it critical to hear more than one side of a
story and more importantly, not to squelch the
writer's right to be heard," said Arcade's co-founder
Jeannette Seaver in a statement.
• “We find it critical to hear more than one side of a
story and more importantly, not to squelch a writer’s
right to be heard,” Seaver said in a statement.
• It means taking time to quell fears and squelch
rumors among passengers and workers alike.
 stalwart
• The unceremonious conclusion to Crozier's command
signals the end of tumultuous nine-day unraveling of
one of the Navy's most stalwart vessels.
• Such people believe in magic, and are the most
stalwart, influential and loyal members of Trump's
political death cult.
• Trump’s stalwart ally also warned that the president
wouldn’t be the only one held responsible.
• For all those reasons, even many stalwart opponents
of deficit spending are embracing aggressive federal
action in the virus response — and bemoaning that the
pre-coronavirus deficits were as high as they were.
 stultify
• Besides coolly explaining the facts in this terrifying
and stultifying plague season, the governor of New
York evokes the feeling of a big Italian family dinner
table.
• It’s about trying to weary and stultify the American
public into not caring about what’s happening.
• And, what is perhaps more important to our
country’s future, is this just the beginning of
stultifying gridlock?
• The book described the stultifying conformity of life
in Park Forest, Ill., a newly built suburb south of
Chicago.
 subterfuge
• There’s no reason to return to this
subterfuge now.
• This lesson lingers as the story shifts back to
Texas, the subterfuge continues and the
deals grow bigger and far fuzzier.
• In June Medical, though, the chief justice
might be unwilling to reward Louisiana’s
slapdash subterfuge.
• It signals shame or subterfuge and is a red
flag.
 supercilious
• His tone was a little supercilious now, but still polite.
• His stance, and the supercilious manner of its
delivery, ultimately cost Morgan his job.
• A somewhat supercilious satire on the property-
owning middle classes that Loach later admitted he
was the wrong director for: a little bit Fassbinder, a
little bit Gurney Slade.
• College kids are called wimpy, wusses, whiners,
babies, and, in the words of former Attorney General
Jeff Sessions, “sanctimonious, sensitive, supercilious
snowflakes.”
 surfeit
• But the root of the problem is not the surfeit of
money; that is merely a function of the real issue,
which is the dearth of trust.
• Where Judd usually prided himself on pieces that
the viewer comprehended by circumnavigating,
here we are limited to a single side but granted a
surfeit of information to sort through.
• There is a surfeit of books on Tiger, some better
than others.
• As with the vast presidential field a year ago, there
is a surfeit of talent.
 surreptitious
• My friend Dr. Tim McConnell, who’s a pastor of First
Presbyterian Church here in Colorado Springs, likened
this new season of Internet worship to the surreptitious
behavior of the early Christian Church fathers.
• After eliminating several other relatives, investigators
focused on Clanton, formerly known as Curtis Allen
White, and went to Florida to monitor him and obtain a
surreptitious DNA sample in late November.
• But hackers are using more surreptitious ways to gain
access to people’s financial lives and threaten their
wealth.
• Everyone was always respectful, but still there were lots of
surreptitious pictures taken, including by me.
 sybarite
• It is true they were sybarites and aesthetes.
• Yet white evangelicals — Graham prominent
among them — embraced this swaggering
sybarite and accepted him as a Christian.
• But he himself was no sybarite; he was
earnest about his invention’s benefits: how
weightlessness contributed to health and
well-being.
• Mr. Guzmán, in contrast, emerged in court
on Tuesday as much less of a sybarite.
Thanks