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As some of the flowers are staminate and some pistillate, although others show a tendency to revert to the perfect condition of their ancestors, it behooves them to entertain their little pollen-carrying visitors generously, otherwise no seed can possibly be set.
It behooves a species related to the wonderful compass-plant (q.
Next of kin to the golden coreopsis, it behooves some of the bur-marigolds to redeem their clan's reputation for ugliness and certainly the brook sunflower is a not unworthy relative.
271 CHAPTER XVII MARINE METEOROLOGY That it behooves a sailor to be weather-wise has always been admitted, but there was a time, almost within the memory of men now living, when neither seamen nor landsmen had the remotest conception of the benefits that a systematic study of the meteorology of the sea was capable of conferring upon the maritime world.
I think it behooves Slate, in its effort to take over the public-opinion industry, to make a thorough effort to uncover the truth behind this unnatural connection.
But it behooves both Schoenfeld and Culturebox, with the prestige and reach of magazines such as Commentary and Slate behind them, to pause for a deep breath before we relegate entire categories of scholarship to the dustbin of intellectual history.
This behooves us to ask: If the United States treats her most trusted ally, Britain, in such an ungrateful manner, is she going to treat those Arabs who think they can befriend her any better?
It ill behooves us to be unfair to any segment of the population, and it is not only immoral but illegal to discriminate against people on virtually any basis.
If there is something wrong, it behooves us to get at the roots of the problem, not to flail about wildly, for only after the source of a disease has been identified can one properly investigate its cure.
It ill behooves me, excoriated recently as enamored of the “cheap larf,” to criticize Safire's arch puns, which permeate-“enliven” is probably the word his editor would use-his articles, but I find some kinds of humor unsuitable for reading, however they might evoke a chuckle when uttered viva voce .
Among speakers of English worldwide, either as a native or an acquired language, RP is the most highly regarded accent--indeed, some might well regard RP as standing for `Revealed Pronunciation'--so it behooves one to pay attention to Professor Honey's comments about it, favorable and adverse.
Some of the smaller dictionaries, from the MW-III and the Random House Unabridged on down through the college and desk sizes, contain etymologies reflecting up-to-date scholarship but these works may not be particularly user-friendly: after all, surveys have shown that etymological information is that least frequently sought by dictionary users, so it ill behooves publishers to devote a great deal of expensive space to it.
The most common American sense of in the bag is `completed, done, consummated,' and, while it ill behooves one to state categorically that `ruined, botched' is not a viable definition, I have never encountered the expression used in that sense on either side of the Atlantic.
(It hardly behooves me to complain, as there is an entry not only for VERBATIM but for URDANG, Laurence, besides, I must accept responsibility as contributor of a number of the entries, though, of course, I did not see the complete work till it was published.
Humility is a desirable attribute of those who deal with language, and it ill behooves purists and precisions to turn their noses up at vulgarians and others who fail to preserve the language in its supposedly pristine condition.
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