Your particular blend of incompetence and mean spiritedness is truly galling. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Frankly, its affected mean-spiritedness is inexcusably tame, especially when compared to the lurid rarities programmed at each QT Fest. ❋ Unknown (2007)
It will be a sad day indeed when such public-spiritedness is driven out of British politics. ❋ Unknown (2005)
Much of modern history can be explained by the search of what Plato called spiritedness for legitimate self-expression. ❋ Allan Bloom (2003)
As Kristol points out in the essay, the meaning of the phrase "public spiritedness" has flipped since the 18th century. ❋ Unknown (2011)
KAPLAN: Well, I wrote -- there's a chapter called "Clean Toilets," and I think it's the collapse of empires or whatever, and it's just two pages at the beginning of that chapter, and I talked about it because to me the availability and degree of cleanliness of public toilets may offer insights in terms of the public - "spiritedness" and degree of civil society in that place. ❋ Unknown (1996)
And in Gabby -- in Gabby, we see a reflection of our public-spiritedness; that desire to participate in that sometimes frustrating, sometimes contentious, but always necessary and never-ending process to form a more perfect union. ❋ AP/The Huffington Post (2011)
It's just not in my nature, really – and has a good line in the deliberately bland: to hear him describe the internet, and Wikipedia, is to hear a tale of public spiritedness, of millions of people working towards a common good, even though he must know that the thing he heads is far stranger and less dependable than that. ❋ Unknown (2011)
In Gabby, we see a reflection of our public spiritedness, that desire to participate in that sometimes frustrating, sometimes contentious, but always necessary and never-ending process to form a more perfect union. ❋ Washington Post Editors (2011)
Mr. Zakaria, born and raised in India, got his first sense of America's vitality, outsized ways, glamour and crazy high-spiritedness as a young boy in the late 1970s watching bootlegged videotapes of "Dallas." ❋ Peggy Noonan (2010)
All the no-saying and no-preaching in the world will fail to keep men, and youths growing into manhood, away from John Barleycorn when John Barleycorn is everywhere accessible, and where John Barleycorn is everywhere the connotation of manliness, and daring, and great-spiritedness. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Now it could be that on Election Day a lightening bolt will come down and the skies will then open and people will be imbued with a new sense of responsibility and public spiritedness. ❋ Sam Stein (2010)
Wealth might play a role, but it is chiefly the “spiritedness” of Hegel, the hunger for actualization, that makes them politicians. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Without limit such spiritedness can eat the man from inside and turn him into a gross parody. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Staging an exhibition of this scale and ambition is always a challenge, and we are ever grateful to the sustained generosity and public spiritedness of lenders from both public and private collections all over the world. ❋ Paul Levy (2010)
The tea party's rise reflects anything but fatalism, and maybe even a new high-spiritedness. ❋ Peggy Noonan (2010)
