espousal

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“This repertoire — with its contrapuntal extravaganzas, its antiphonal balances, its espousal of instruments that chuff and wheeze and speak directly to a microphone — was made for stereo,” he wrote.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 9, 2024

As Travis Adkins and Judd Devermont recently pointed out in Foreign Policy, Cold Warriors both Black and White were painfully aware of the contradictions of their ringing espousal of freedom.

From Washington Post • Sep. 3, 2020

But, he added, espousal of those values by American officials “is neither 100 percent cynical, nor is it inconsequential.”

From New York Times • Feb. 1, 2018

In our book “Queer Wars,” Jon Symons and I traced the current backlash back to the espousal of “Asian values” by Singapore’s Lee Kwan Yew and Malaysia’s Mohammed Mahathir in the early 1990s.

From Salon • Sep. 29, 2016

What else does the Philadelphian's toying with the cause of the "loyalists" during the Revolution and his belated espousal of it mean, unless perhaps the childish Anglomania which fashion has imposed upon Philadelphia?

From Our Philadelphia by Pennell, Elizabeth Robins