Word: complementation
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...noisy stupidity. But he is pathetic in his back-slapping assumption of confidence. He has built for himself a legend of his own magnificence, only at times shattered by the cold contact of reality. Mrs. Pinney, too, is perfect in her way. She is the unmistakable, corpulent complement of all Pinneys. But the author has gone no further. The entire book is devoted to a repetitious chronicle of the unimportant doings of the Pinneys. It never rises much above the shrewd cataloguing of the minutiae of vulgarity. And too much reliance is placed on phonetic reproduction of the Pinney jargon...
...Brien! We'll film his cannibal savages So no one can say he's lyin'!" So should have sung, if they didn't, the crew of the old-time whaling bark Narwhal, which set sail from San Francisco recently with a complement of some 20 adventurers who had heard of the money magnates make in the movies and didn't see why they shouldn't make some themselves. They incorporated themselves as the Mutual Trading Company and expect to be gone eight or ten months, filming hula-maids and cannibals and fatu-lava birds...
...opportunity it affords of following the careers of certain actors, to sound their merits, to measure the scope of their talent. Besides, it is only in the stock company that the player has chance to feel out the qualities and faults of his companions, and so to become fitting complement to them. Organizations other than the football squad benefit by teamwork...
...iteration and reiteration that it behooves all of us to avoid confusing the symbols and the facts of intellectuality and I should hope that under any circumstances we might avoid confusing mental gymnastics and facility in appropriating the ideas of others with genuine thinking. Unfortunately, intellectual hypocrisy and its complement, intellectual smugness, are not sufficiently infrequent even within college halls while at the same time I believe that on the whole they are as much to be avoided and that they are detrimental to the spirit of true scholarship as is ignorance...
...with the tradition and customs of that denomination, and as a student, become intimate with those who are to be his professional colleagues. Accordingly students have often been advised to take at least one year of their divinity school work in a denominational school as a fitting and useful complement to study in the Harvard Divinity School. The affiliation of several such schools in the neighborhood,--Baptist, Methodist, Trinitarian, Congregational, Episcopal,--with Harvard University affords here exceptional opportunities for a combination of the advantages of a denominational with those of an undenominational school...