Posted on 01/05/2008 3:40:20 AM PST by mattstat
“To make a sentimental or untimely exhibition of affection; to display enthusiasm in a silly, demonstrative manner.” — Webster, 1913.
For example, this snippet from today’s New York Times editorial.
Americans are going to feel good about [his] victory, which is a story of youth, possibility and unity through diversity — the primordial themes of the American experience….[He] has achieved something remarkable. At first blush, his speeches are abstract, secular sermons of personal uplift — filled with disquisitions on the nature of hope and the contours of change.
Can you guess of whom the writer wrote?
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