Word: albeit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...more professional in his vocabulary. Instead of "I think" he said, "One might contend." He began using the Latin abbreviations i.e., e.g., and viz. in his speech as well as his writing. By the beginning of his junior year he could use "be that as it may," "moreover," "albeit" and "to the contrary notwithstanding" without giving them a second thought...
...Schrade, the idea of the fated personal daemon helps clarify "the eternal enigma of the extraordinary man." The visionary gift of the creative artist originates in his acceptance (albeit unconsciously) of this force for which he expends his energies to the limit of his nature. This drive is common to an artist's creativity and work and a stateman's wickedness alike, to both Beethoven and Napoleon; it features an enormous confidence and a wisdom far beyond common...
...uncontested experts in the no less noble endeavor of showing their contemporaries the laughable side of a life too often taken too seriously by too many. This is not to say that their works are necessarily trivial. One the contrary; they can, and often do, contain food for reflection, albeit of an easy-going and not-too-taxing variety...
...greatness by effective use of government support. If Harvard intends to eschew such innovation, it must think ahead with sufficient clarity to vince the academic community that Harvard intends, nevertheless, to have a future. The Cheever report would convince most readers that Harvard regards the future as a regrettable, albeit unavoidable, prospect...
This romantic novel preserves, as if in amber, all the forgotten joys of Victorian fiction. Here again are such stately nouns as provender and ablutions, adverbs like anew and perchance, adjectives like ruinated or commonsensical, once invaluable conjunctives like albeit. There are long majestic strings of rhetorical questions-"But why should sorrow be always creeping in upon joy? Why should it pierce him and find him out in this dear, beautiful place into which he had been wafted so mysteriously?" The plot-a 19th century version of the ancient tale of Tristan and Isolde-is every bit as lurid...