Nobody stands taller than those willing to stand corrected.
When duty calls, that is when character counts.
English is a stretch language; one size fits all.
Why use a modifier to set straight a not-quite-right noun when the right noun is available?
To communicate, put your words in order; give them a purpose; use them to persuade, to instruct, to discover, to seduce.
[Senators John Kerry & John Edwards] have risen high in Democratic polls with a brand of class resentment and soak-the-rich rhetoric rooted in the old-fashioned liberalism of Ted Kennedy.