beseem


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Synonyms for beseem

to be appropriate or suitable to

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Synonyms for beseem

accord or comport with

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Responding to the question whether as a party SDSM is trying to play the patriotism card, even more than VMRO-DPMNE in certain situations, Zaev said that "they have tried to play that card several times but this does not beseem SDSM ...
In his review of Owen Wister's The Virginian (1902), Theodore Roosevelt praised the hyper-masculine western hero who exhibited "the great virile virtues--the virtues of courage, energy and daring; the virtues which beseem a masterful race--a race fit to fell the forests, to build roads, to found commonwealths, to conquer continents, to overthrow armed enemies" (in Faragher 2000: xii).
Roosevelt celebrated "the great virile virtues, the virtues of courage, energy and daring: the virtues which beseem a masterful race--a race fit to fell the forest, to build roads, to found commonwealths, to conquer continents, to overthrow armed enemies."
Gutierrez, "A Gendered History of the Conquest of America: A View from New Mexico." In "State Forms and Male Genders" are: Edward Muir, "The Double Binds of Manly Revenge in Renaissance Italy"; Carlin Barton, "All Things Beseem the Victor: Paradoxes of Masculinity in Early Imperial Rome"; and Linda L.
Velinovska reminds of Zaev's past statements that his party would eat people alive, that they would politicize the country, that we should concede in the name dispute, that patriotism does not beseem SDSM, that the defenders and Albanian NLA fighters should enjoy the same status etc and wonders how he can be called responsible and reasonable.
The writers are guided by the sociological notion that they belong to the generation of post-1948 war writers: "but it beseems to us that this is the first attempt to gather a group of men of letters, whose first fruits matured after the Independence War, that is, in the late 1940s.
163 [phrase omitted] Clever talk and imposing countenance, 164 [phrase omitted] knowing how to move humbly and deferentially, 165 [phrase omitted] this ill beseems benevolence!
Sad pause and deep regard beseems the sage; My part is youth, and beats this from the stage.
Give me their bodies that I may bear them hence And give them burial as beseems their worth.
It ill beseems this presence to cry aim To these ill-tuned repetitions.
It might have well beseemed me to repeat Some simply fashioned tale, to tell again In slender accents of sweet Verse some tale That did bewitch me then and soothes me now.
His devoted friend and patron, Sir George Lyttelton, inserted a stanza into Thomson's Castle of Indolence (a largely facetious mock-Spenserian work in which the Castle of Indolence was probably the Castle Inn at the foot of Richmond Hill) in which Lyttelton mocked him as 'more fat than bard beseems':
9-11), said that Lancelot worships Guinevere, and some of his fellow knights worship him and Guinevere, because it more beseems them "To worship woman as true wife beyond / All hopes of gaining, than as maiden girl" (ll.
Thou wilt bring me soon To that new world of light and bliss, among The gods who live at ease, where I shall reign At thy right hand voluptuous, as beseems Thy daughter and thy darling, without end.