In "The Swimmer," the delusional protagonist decides to swim across the county through his neighbors' pools, yet he can extol his surroundings by remarking that living "in a world so generously supplied with water seemed like a clemency, a beneficence".
She has struggled throughout to explain an apparent contradiction: how on the one hand she needed to usurp Kevin Rudd as prime minister in June, while on the other she can extol the economic achievements of the government he led since bringing Labor to power in 2007.
Sensible optimists about the new economy have always understood that most of its benefits will accrue not to producers but to consumers, that you can extol information technology without necessarily believing that its purveyors should be valued at infinite multiples of earnings.
You can extol the intelligence or idiocy of another's tweets and your own when you quote them, with more room for analysis.
The Government can extol the virtues of work as much as it likes, but when the work available to you is tedious and poorly paid then it's not surprising that the "balls" (in super-remunerated Cherie's memorable phrase) seem barely worth juggling.
Inspired by Generation's approach to include measurements other investors traditionally leave out, those of us who believe in the value of the Arts and Humanities--whether we are educators, business professionals, politicians, or community members--may feel inspired to also adopt an advocacy strategy that can extol both the health and the wealth of our shared interests and goals.
I can remember extolling the virtues of coloured people, as they then were, to my mother and she would say, "Don't get carried away now - they are not the be all and end all".' If America was strange to him then it has only got stranger.
Everywhere I go I extol the virtues of that car.
At this point, my nationalism invariably kicks in and I find myself extolling everything I can - our music, our varied culture and food, our lack of fascistic history - I even find myself defending our weather and prices, though admittedly such arguments are difficult to sustain.
I can imagine the old Rosie Boycott extolling natural female beauty before she came round to Botox following an experiment conducted for a newspaper assignment investigating fillers.
