Word: absently
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...Dinner” is a relatively new play, written by Moira Buffini, and commissioned by the National Theater in London in 2002. Videt writes in an e-mail that she chose the play for “many of its nontrivial themes about marriage, absent children, consumption (of life, of experience, of food, of products), and social stereotypes.” She writes that she also “felt that Buffini had written incredibly complex and beautifully multifaceted female characters” in contrast with the predominance of “meaty male roles.” Videt promises...
...beyond with food problems. Along with sessions on nutrition and body image, the program addresses the particular challenges that older women face, from the normal signs of aging like wrinkling and sagging to marital issues such as divorce and domestic violence. The center found that when younger women are absent, older patients are more likely to focus on their own health rather than on nurturing their younger counterparts...
...anthropologist that she would become; it was a phenomenon to be treated with a suitable respect, but with a suitable detachment as well. Moreover, as a child I rarely came in contact with those who might offer a substantially different view of faith. My father was almost entirely absent from my childhood, having been divorced from my mother when I was 2 years old; in any event, although my father had been raised a Muslim, by the time he met my mother he was a confirmed atheist, thinking religion to be so much superstition...
...Harvard’s most popular shuttle drivers has been absent from work for days, and two shuttle drivers and a student have been told that he has been fired from his post...
While spitting out lists of SAT words and math tricks is easy as pi for Noah, cultivating relationships with his students is more difficult. For Dylan and Tuscany, being popular is as easy as stealing prescription drugs from their stereotypically absent and aloof mother, Dr. Thayer. “In Dylan’s case coolness is an end in itself. But in Noah’s case, coolness means financial solvency.” The better he is ranked by his students, the more Noah is paid by his agency...