After he compared Norman Mailer to Charles Manson, Mailer headbutted Vidal backstage at "The Dick Cavett Show" and weeks later punched him at a dinner party; a prone Vidal declared, "Words fail Norman Mailer yet again".
If you want success, if you want wisdom, if you want to be prosperous and healthy, you're going to have to do more than meditate and believe; you must boldly declare words of faith and victory over yourself and your family" From Your Best Life Now, p.132.
Then in the same year, Oxford Dictionaries Online declared the word "selfie" its Word of the Year.
Nearly tied behind him were Robert Bentley, a dermatologist and state representative, and Tim James, whose father Fob was a previous governor.At times the candidates seemed madly determined to sound the most conservative: Mr Byrne declared "every word" of the Bible true a couple of months after being quoted admitting the possibility of some figurative biblical language.
As soon as a stretch of ice is declared fit, word spreads locally like wildfire.
"We're doing fine, don't worry about us," Mrs. Shaw declared, leaving word on the Pou answering machine.
The app is Tinder, selfie has been declared the word of the year, and a study has come out showing that our language is more self-centered than ever before.
"He achieved his twin aims of terrorising those whom he deemed enemies, those who had, in his words, declared war on [Isis] whilst having earned God's pleasure and company.
"I am delighted with the film and am now convinced that only through the medium of the talking picture art could this delicious fantasy be faithfully interpreted," she declared, her words possibly burnished by a Paramount publicist.
