It seemed a revelation of profound national feeling, underlying all our vulgarisms and corruptions, and vouchsafed to us in their very focus and centre, in Wall Street itself.
And it would be much more advisable to look at the Kubrick in the light of what else he has vouchsafed to us than to compare it with the fag end of the Exorcist Syndrome.
For me, the most memorable appearance of hers was on the public access TV show Driveways Of The Rich And Famous, in which it was vouchsafed to us that BS actively mans her own driveway intercom – and querulously ("Whadya want from me?").
The opening punch-up is not vouchsafed to us straight after the credits, or even during the credits, in the way we have come to expect from any action picture, but after 10 self-effacing minutes of exposition.
The core text of this venture -- and of Vowell's book -- is John Winthrop's 1630 sermon "A Model of Christian Charity". Here Winthrop describes Massachusetts as "a city upon a hill" and sets in motion the sordid history of American exceptionalism -- a history that, according to Vowell, has vouchsafed to us (among other things) wars in the Philippines, Vietnam and Iraq.
Once its cleansing there is complete, the soul will pass through the seven planetary spheres, acquiring a more comprehensive knowledge of the cosmos and our place in it than is vouchsafed to us in this world (Princ. 1.11.6).
In late March 302, Diocletian responded: the Manicheans "have set up new and hitherto unheard of sects in opposition to the older creeds so that they might cast out the doctrines vouchsafed to us in the past by divine favour, for the benefit of their own depraved doctrine".
If that anonymous bowler had set the tone by telling WG Grace "If thou fails to get thy f — — — self out of here within the next 10 seconds, good doctor, I vouchsafe to ignite this Lucifer and set fire to thy f — — — beard", he might have spared us a deal of misery.
Now however our business is to see if it will regard me as of small account, and not vouchsafe to appear to me, whether I wear mine own clothes or thine, while it keeps on haunting thee continually.
It would vouchsafe to me the cachet I had never had as a writer before.
Wilt thou, whose will is large and spacious, Not once vouchsafe to hide my will in thine?
