Posted on 04/02/2009 4:23:44 AM PDT by secret garden
In order that we might all raise the level of discourse and expand our language abilities, here is the daily post of "Word for the Day".
velleity \veh-LEE-uh-tee; vuh-\, noun
1. The lowest degree of desire; imperfect or incomplete volition.
2. A slight wish or inclination.
Example sentences:
To become now a priest was an elevation of sorts; yet the ceremony, as we would soon see, reinforced every contrast between the life he would lead and the life of the high and mighty, for whom the crowds roar and the bands play, courtiers and servants surrounding them to gratify the least velleity, historians on their toes to record their wispiest thought.
-- William F. Buckley Jr., Nearer, My God
The ease of her words, the control of them, was meant to convey to Compton that her wish to know of her real parents was hardly more than a velleity, a thought that would come to one while watering a plant or peeling an orange.
-- Thomas Savage, The Sheep Queen
He does not shout out his wishes or velleities, unless invited by his host to do so.
-- Philip Howard, "Modern Manners", Times (London), September 15, 2003"
Etymology:
Velleity is derived from Latin velle, "to will, to be willing, to wish."
The sentence must, in some way, relate to the news of the day. The Review threads are linked for your edification. ;-)
Practice makes perfect.....post on....
Review Thread One: Word For The Day, Thursday 11/14/02: Raffish (Be SURE to check out posts #92 and #111 on this thread!)
Review Thread Two: Word For The Day, Tuesday 1/14/03: Roister
Review Thread Three: Word For The Day, Tuesday 1/28/03: Obdurate
WFB's attempt to emulate us ; ) No pushing at the door please!
Rise and shine!
Good morning!!!!
Even being informed it is National PB & J Day made no nevermind to him.
A+ and a Happy PB&J Day to you too!
Obama, a study in vanity
As his sycophants tend each velleity
Upon water, he walks
The seas part when he talks
Apparently, he is a deity
A+ for you. I wonder if they're still in awe of him overseas.
Good Morning!
My unfondest wish, my velleity,
Is akin to enjoying sobriety,
As I skate on the edge,
Of the bets that I hedge,
I consider a mild impropriety!
A+ for you. Well done.
The not-so-valiant Sabres displayed further velleity regarding the playoffs as they were swept last night by the Thrashers(!)...
Oh no. At least Chicago cooperated in our quest for the play-offs. We’ll be done, sitting on the sidelines biting our nails and watching everyone else’s last 2 games.
LOL!
I followed his lead and had a PB&J for breakfast and as soon as I finish my coffee I’m going to get cracking on making lunch. He just left to run back up to the site in Maryland to load the last of brush we removed and pick up our check. When we off load the truck we are headed to Chincoteague to our next job site.
How the heck did I respond to me, instead of you?
I guess I really do need this other cup of coffee :)
Since it is National PB&J day and I don’t like jelly, I have a sudden velleity for grilled peanut butter, banana and bacon sandwiches for dinner tonight. YUM!!
I don’t eat bananas :(
Is everything alright at home? I know i'd be wondering if you were my wife and packed me a PBJ when i was expecting ham & cheese!
(Please note this is only for humor/conversational purposes, like the coffee commercial where the woman wonders why the husband only had one cup, and certainly not meant to say anything about the state of your marriage! Your mileage may vary.)
The publics velleity to give Obama the benefit of the doubt in anything financial is 6 months too late. Despite being warned time and again that he was going to tax the people into permafrost, more dullards were motivated to vote in his favor than in that of John Dishwater McCain.
LOL!!!!! PB&J are more often a mid-morning snack around here than packed for lunch. It is obvious there are no peanut allergies in this house just by the massive quantities of peanut butter we go through. About a jar a week.
I do need to experiment making my own, because the price of it is skyrocketing. PB&J is no longer a cheap sandwich, relatively speaking.
There is little else in the world better than a glass of very cold milk, and a PBJ made with super-chunk PB at least 1/4” thick, and Smuckers raspberry jelly with the seeds, on super-fresh Wonder bread. YUM!!
Violation!
-- The Department of Redundancy Department
Good morning, early bird. (I get up at 5:00 AM and it’s still not early enough to get to class on time. Sheesh.)
Can velleity be applied to a teleprompter?
Substituting jalapenos for the bananas is also quite tasty. Fewer calories and more Vitamin C.
You can only say that because you have never had the culinary pleasure of my strawberry-blueberry jelly :)
Now there’s an idea!!!!!
You can talk to yourself around here, just don’t start arguing.
LOL!!!!!
That why I like talking to myself, never any backtalk or argument :)
Don’t tell me, tell William F. Uh oh, too late.
TOTUS is now in charge. I hope nothing happens to it while zerobama is off gamboling and gallivanting overseas. A for you.
You forgot "Results not typical" and "Actor portrayal."
His viewpoints are thinly veiled to those who are paying attention. A+ for you.
I wonder if they remembered to bring transformers and those funky 3-prong plugs the Brits have? I hope not.
My bet would be they haven’t since they are clueless in all other aspects of protocol. Who’s running that department? Their kids?
Velleity is to willfulness what a momentary glance on a street corner is to a lifetime pass to a strip club.
Are you reading from the SAT analogies review book? A for you.
You COULD fix that problem. :)
I could reciprocate with the best clams in the world!
I thought women had a velleity for sheep. If the book had been about The Sheep King, it would have a distinctly different flavor, and probably much better sales. :)
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Get carried away much? ;)
Why use a dart when a cannon works soooooo nicely!
:)
Why do I think our tea party protests won’t get much press over there? A+ for you.
Before Messrs Brown and Obama entered the room where we had been cooped up for two hours, flunkeys and bit-part players came slinking in, David Miliband and Hillary Clinton among them. What an odd duo Mrs Clinton and the boy Milipede make. She looks like a mother taking her teenage son round a university campus on Open Day
Wasn’t I, but it’s nice to know that Congressmen and women are getting nervous about ignoring their constituency.
Don’t they have mirrors in England?
is it my eyes or are the shoes green? i mean leaving aside for the moment that nothing else on her matches and the cardigans are something elementary school teachers might wear but not the first lady of the US representing our country abroad.
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