Sentences with phrase «public men»

Watching him live this double life of public man and poet, one wonders what Astrue — or Juster — is really thinking when he answers the biting questions of a reporter demanding to know why the new commissioner hasn't yet personally fixed the entire Social Security system.

He's stopped at a fairly typical - looking public men's room, presumably not to admire the muck streaks daubed across the walls and puddles or indeterminate origin, but to freshen up.

«It is a common practice among public men to deny the accuracy of interviews which have proved to be boomerangs.

Even while many other American poets strive for public notice, the most public man to be a poet in America strives to keep his poetic persona private.

Writing on November 2, 1973, about the Watergate crisis, Reston quoted Gerald Ford's reference to President Eisenhower's rule for public men.

McCartney's dabbling in divisive social issues will prevent him from ruling a state as diverse as Colorado — and it reminds us that, over a quarter century, Bryant may have been the only public man in Alabama to transcend the issue of race.

The office is on the 17th floor with relatively few of the mementos and honorary trappings that usually decorate the working quarters of such public men.

The question arises whether celibacy has the same effect on women in politics as that which exercises on public men.»

From youthful dreamer to senator in the fledgling Irish Free State, «apprentice mage» to «sixty - year old smiling public man,» Yeats took to heart more than most Shelley's description of poets as the unacknowledged legislators of the world.

He's stopped at a fairly typical - looking public men's room, presumably not to admire the muck streaks daubed across the walls and puddles or indeterminate origin, but to freshen up.

... are those offenses which proceed from the misconduct of public men, or, in other words, from the abuse or violation of some public trust.

Lewis was a public man.

Is it not designed as a method of NATIONAL INQUEST into the conduct of public men?

i can forgive pop for having a bad day because in private he's seen as anything but difficult or petty (think jack benny for all you old - timers — a public skinflint and diva, but privately humble and generous)-- with jackson you had to flip the script, and the public man was as good as it ever got by a long shot.