Sublime

Literary men are being employed to praise a big business man personally, as men used to praise a king.

Murphy considered de Gaulle’s Free French movement dangerously radical and found little to criticize in Vichy’s domestic policies.

garrulous

There was again no open opposition, nothing that Moses’ supporters could seize on as evidence of Tammany opposition to reform; instead, there was again stalling and obfuscation and confusion—and, for Bob Moses, defeat.

In the Prussian Upper House, to which he belonged ex officio as lord mayor of Cologne, he voted against the Enabling Act. He refused an invitation to welcome Hitler at Cologne airport during the election campaign. And in the week before the election he ordered the removal of Nazi flags from bridges and other public monuments. Adenauer was dismissed

DR. BLAKE: And why did the detective lie to us? READER: [Sighs] We are taught not to speak ill of the dead, but I’m afraid this reflects poorly on Mr. McAnnis. He saw John’s death as an opportunity, I believe. The isolation caused by the storm left him as the logical person to begin queries. It essentially gave him free rein to the property.