a priori

There’s no a priori reason why this should be pleasurable—the way other drives like hunger and thirst yield pleasure because they keep us alive.

ROME — What does it take for a Hollywood A-lister to get a private audience with Pope Francis?

Yes, Byrd—dead four-and-a-half years now—was a Kleagle in the Ku Klux Klan.

By the time it concluded with a sing-a-long of “XO,” Beyoncé had done the rare thing.

In another year, stories about the strange new face of an A-list actress might draw chortles and cackles.

Because Duck Dynasty receives monster TV ratings and Robertson paid by a company (A&E) while making these public statements.

Now-a-days it is the bankrupt who flouts, and his too confiding creditors who are jeered and laughed at.

He felt himself the meanest, vilest thing a-crawl upon this sinful earth, and she—dear God!

All that scientific bric-a-brac in the cupboard had far better be thrown away.

Urinary sediments may be studied under three heads: A. Unorganized sediments.

I knowed, a-course, that I could go kick up a fuss when Simpson stopped by his office on his trip back from Goldstone.