rankness

Furthermore, Scott's work demonstrates how luxury was being negotiated not simply in moral or religious terms but also in a political sense, as the idea was often defined in terms of "riot, excess, indulgence, rankness, revelry and dissipation, and its disordering effects were applied to diverse situations including mockery of wealth, ill rule, and sedition" (7).

The actual soldier of 1862-'65, North and South, with all his ways, his incredible dauntlessness, habits, practices, tastes, language, his fierce friendship, his appetite, rankness, his superb strength and animality, lawless gait, and a hundred unnamed lights and shades of camp, I say, will never be written.

Questioning (13) LAST WEEK'S SOLUTION: Across - 1 Vicinity; 5 Space bar; 10 Rankness; 11 Usurious; 12 Silvered; Lens hood; 15 Royal; 16 Midway; 18 Galena; 19 Launch pad; 22 Poorly off; 26 Hoodoo; 27 Elated; 28 Ideal; 30 Rag trade; 31 Listener; 32 Viridian; Catacomb; 34 Relieved; 35 Resettle.

Which, given all I've just said, only serves to illustrate the abject rankness of the current crop of BB hopefuls.

Each node in the network belongs to at least one community and has a global rankness and a local rankness, which, respectively, represents the global popularity in the whole network and the local popularity in its local community.