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headmasterly [ˌhɛdˈmæstəlɪ] adj (Social Science / Education) typical of the duties and behaviour of a headmaster How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| The rather headmasterly admonition to the candidates and the audience to "remember to conduct ourselves in a way that will make Cambodia proud" emphasizes this concern, as well as, perhaps, indicating a certain perception of Cambodians as people who, like disorderly schoolchildren, require discipline and tutelage before being trusted with free participation. The work that is involved in claiming the right to speak sometimes dominates what is actually being said; there is a Du Boisian ostentation, for example, in West's parading of his dazzling erudition, and some of his occasionally strained attempts to assert the interconnectedness of everything with everything else recall the contorted headmasterly postures of C. |
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