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

Her second espousal to Ramsay Bolton, another psychopath, took place in the dead of night and was festivity-free.

From Salon • Sep. 19, 2022

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

Apparently everything was auspicious; but the seed of discord was already sown by Bellomont's early espousal of the Leislerian cause, which was in effect the cause of the common people.

From Dutch and English on the Hudson A Chronicle of Colonial New York by Goodwin, Maud Wilder