Pride, indeed, Esther thought — that was a beaner! There was more purse than pride in Mayme's repentant heart

Rather than trying to understand the basis of guruhood, another means to grasp the phenomenon is to classify those who are recognized as gurus.

Consider, for example, the principles of pronominal reference, which have been central to these quasisemantic investigations.

As a supporter of the cause, his reports were tendentious in the extreme.