Abstemious

Abstemious

Definition: unable/unwilling to grant forgiveness.

Sample Sentences:

1. Abstemious personal habits, he was endlessly generous to his students.
2. The athlete's abstemious diet did not give her enough energy.
3. A Cathoic Nun lives a very abstemious lifestyle.

Usage:
New York Times
Time Magazine

Paragraph:

     In these two articles above, they use the word "abstemious" to describe how a person or arthor is speaking to a group of people. In the "King's Speech", the slogan "keep calm and carry on" is used. This is taking the word abstemious, and making it flip directions. Instead of the King using it in its defined mannor, the king uses it in a reverse way.