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Heteropessimism exists alongside heterosexuality not because being straight is terrible or embarrassing or out of fashion, but because it is, first and foremost, an institution — one that in many places remains dangerous to spurn.
From Salon • Jun. 3, 2026
When Thoreau set out for his first of his three chronicled trips to Cape Cod in 1849, he was a virtually unknown hanger-on to America’s foremost public intellectual, Ralph Waldo Emerson.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 29, 2026
"First and foremost, we want her to know - and in years to come to see that we've told the world how brilliant she is and how utterly in awe we are of her."
From BBC • May 22, 2026
“I am, first and foremost, focused on making government deliver results that make a real difference in people’s lives,” he said.
From Los Angeles Times • May 18, 2026
Of them all he was foremost, as was proved by the extraordinary fact that poets report, that when Zeus wished to use his thunderbolt, it was Pegasus who brought the thunder and lightning to him.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
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