imprimaturs

• “After setting out certain Italian imprimaturs, he remarks:”

  Notes and Queries, Number 56, November 23, 1850

• “I can't put my book label imprimaturs on the beloved tomes I loan.”

  The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com

• “But politeness, civility and shaking hands are not imprimaturs of agreement.”

  The Huffington Post: Ed Koch: What's on My Tombstone, and Why

• “There are many works from the 60s and 70s that were given imprimaturs that later turned out to be not so theologically sound.”

  Dr. Janet Smith replies to Dr. Schindler, defends Christopher West

• “Eddie TulasiewiczLondon• Some of us can only dream of appearing in a crossword clue Letters, 15 February, but the bishop of Cyprus and the Gulf did once call me the Keith Flett of the Church of England, which, as episcopal imprimaturs go, is surely approaching ultramundane.”

  The Guardian: Letters: Facts are sacred

• “The century-old, die-hard view of gifted people destined to unravel may have begun as the projected id fantasy of a repressed owning class at the turn of the 1900s; as one of the currently accepted imprimaturs of true creativity, of surfeit sensitivity, this fiction comes down unchecked and unchallenged to a generation of 20- to 30-somethings -- famous and just regular -- who suffer real tragedy under its seductive and silly directives.”

  The Huffington Post: Marlena Doktorczyk-Donohue: Obit for Two: A Reflection on Dying, Culture, Lucien Freud and Amy Winehouse

• “While some readers might liken Donohue’s penchant for mystical realism to that of novelist Alice Hoffman, any sweeping comparisons shortchange both writers, whose immense gifts bear separate and distinct literary imprimaturs.”

  Angels of Destruction by Keith Donohue: Book summary

• “There are the imprimaturs of litterers, gum chewers, car abandoners, pothole manufacturers, and birds that let loose on the great gray latrine.”

  Simon & Schuster: The King's Best Highway

• “White-collar criminals at the "ratings" agencies, Moody's and Standard and Poor's, gave triple-A imprimaturs to this toxic financial sludge.”

  Joseph A. Palermo: Half Measures and Lukewarm "Reform" Won't Save the Middle Class

• “Licensing simply means censorship before publication, the sort of thing imposed by Romanist clerics with their absurd imprimaturs; for that sort of thing, Milton argued, there is no place in the intellectual intercourse of free Englishmen.”

  Heroic Milton: Happy Birthday

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