A sort of "chip on the shoulder" spread-eagleism formerly made a class of Americans unpopular; now Americans are in favor in England, and are treated most cordially. ❋ Mrs. John M. E. W. Sherwood (N/A)
He is a slow starter, but there is no stronger finisher because he has by temperament and training the faculty of getting through any job that he gives his mind to with a minimum expenditure of vital energy; nothing is wasted in expression, style, spread-eagleism; everything is instinctively kept as near to the practical heart of the matter as possible. ❋ Various (N/A)
That he preferred his own country to any other and that he believed that it was its greatest destiny to teach its institutions to the rest of the world, Page's letters show; yet this was with him no cheap spread-eagleism; it was a definite philosophy which the Ambassador had completely thought out. ❋ Hendrick, Burton J (1922)
It is not the spread-eagleism with which some friends of ours are familiar. ❋ Unknown (1919)
Blind patriotism was impossible for this great American: he exposed the shallowness of popular enthusiasms and the narrowness of rampant spread-eagleism, without regard for consequence to himself or his popularity. ❋ Archibald Henderson (1920)
There is too much of vainglorious boasting in the poem (for America should be modest, and can afford to be modest), but it has enough of prophetic vision and exalted imagination to make us overlook its unworthy spread-eagleism. ❋ William Joseph Long (1909)
There is much to be said for this contention, and there are some points in which the German Parliament also struck me as an improvement upon our Lower House: they do less than we in committee, and more in the main assemblage; German members are more attentive to the work in hand, and spread-eagleism and speeches to the galleries which are tolerated at Washington are not tolerated at Berlin. ❋ Unknown (1906)
The new consciousness of empire uttered itself hastily, crudely, ran into buncombe, "spread-eagleism," and other noisy forms of patriotic exultation; but it was thoroughly democratic and ❋ Unknown (1886)
He complimented the president, judging "The absence of fine writing and spread-eagleism is a good sign." ❋ Unknown (2009)
a dressy mister, span-new from the city -- layin 'the law down: "All this stars and stripes," says he, "and red and white and blue is rubbish, mere sentimental rot, spread-eagleism!" ❋ Eugene O'Neill (1920)
Gozzi_, translated by J. Addington Symonds, 1890, Introd. part ii.p. 44), and that in consequence of this spread-eagleism the Venetians were held up to scorn by their neighbours as "planters of the lion" -- a reproach which conveyed a tribute to their prowess. ❋ George Gordon Byron Byron (1806)
