So they signed up for a second shift, an avocation that earns them psychic income in the currencies of artistry, adventure and passion. Charles Fenyvesi, "I Live Two Lives," Washington Post, September 4, 1983
Her three avocations—gardening, current events, and photography—were, like her writing, deeply informed by a desire to secure fragile moments as objects of art. Danny Heitman, "The Quiet Greatness of Eudora Welty," Humanities, March/April 2014
It seemed as if his first instinct on hearing a proposition was to controvert it, so impatient was he of the limitations of our daily thought. Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Thoreau," The Atlantic, August 1862
It seems natural to suppose—though many scholars controvert it—that Book I of the Republic was originally written as a separate book ... Basil Mitchell and J. R. Lucas, An Engagement with Plato's Republic, 2003
When I mentioned the Betty Crocker book to David Kamp ... it didn’t seem to inspire the rhapsodic response I was hoping for. Sadie Stein, "Betty Crocker and the Joys of Children's Cookbooks," The New Yorker, January 5, 2018
... he can now tell you about the rhapsodic joy of a perfect day out at his home break with his boys as well as the spiritual fulfillment he felt from chasing waves around the planet as a surf bohemian inspired by Jack Kerouac. Jay Caspian Kang, "Writing Waves," New York Times, July 22, 2015
A lot of people were confused when Kaplan ... took a job at Condé Nast Traveler, a magazine not widely known as a bastion of oppidan irreverence. Nathan Heller, "The Cranky Wisdom of Peter Kaplan," The New Republic, September 13, 2012
Forsake your oppidan haunts and play manorial backgammon in the ballroom at Old Westbury Gardens, John S. Phipps's former Long Island estate. Russell Edwards, "Future Social Events," New York Times, May 26, 1974
His critique was that the Jellybys of the world sometimes commit the sin of simony, meaning that they trade in sacred and spiritual materials for their own emotional profit. Josephine Livingstone, "America's 'Poster Child' Syndrome," The New Republic, June 20, 2018
But isn't what I'm doing the greatest crime of all? ... Am I committing simony? Gore Vidal, Lincoln, 1984
Thompson might have had the power of the press to spruik his message, but he had other factors going against him. James Coventry, Time and Space, 2015
Andi, Justin and Karl will sit around the set looking uncomfortable waiting their turn to spruik about the New Alchemy Institute in Massachusetts, the world's most powerful microscope, robot technology in Japan and research into children's co-ordination. Richard Coleman, "Television Choice," The Sydney Morning Herald, July 23, 1985
It takes a certain amount of chutzpah to write a book called “The Problem With Everything,” but chutzpah is something essayist and cultural critic Meghan Daum has always possessed in spades. Rosa Brooks, "Meghan Daum's merciless take on modern feminism, woke-ness and cancel culture," Washington Post, October 24, 2019
Selling these artifacts at these prices requires more than a list of customers with too much disposable income. It takes hard work, chutzpa and catalog copy that ignites neural brush fires in the amygdala. Rene Chun, "Why Audiophiles Are Paying $1,000 for This Man's Vinyl," Wired, March 4, 2015