Word: absorbable
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...from his own career, which was largely dependent on his personal choices. Perhaps the most vivid recollection in the article is the discussion of a “pathetically easy” paper, for which he apparently “didn’t need to do any reading, absorb any history, or learn anything at all.” One can only wonder why an individual with such a high commitment to academic rigor would have enrolled in such a course in the first place...
...long believed that Beijing has the most to gain and lose on the Korean peninsula and would quietly pressure Pyongyang to give up its nuclear ambitions. Since the fall of the Soviet Union, Beijing has been North Korea's closest ally, funneling oil and food. China would have to absorb many refugees if Kim's regime failed...
...advice for the actors who will be getting Oscar nods later this month? Digest it. Absorb it. Observe it. Don't have an anxiety attack. When I was talking to some of the other nominees last year, I couldn't find anybody behind their pupils. They took it too seriously...
...problem, as any 12-year-old could tell, is that Carey is trying too hard. With his novelist's critical intelligence, he seeks to ferret out the meaning of modern Japan, while Charley is content to skip the subtitles and absorb it image by image. The contrast is accentuated by the presence of Takashi, a spiky-haired 15-year-old who serves as a kind of alternative guide to Japanese pop culture. The father looks at Takashi and his son in the electric district of Akihabara and sees a "mutated species"?one that he worries has become all but incomprehensible...
...advancement of black people worldwide. The rest of America, buffered by lingering segregation, is unable or unwilling to discern fantasy from reality and consumes this imagery as authentic, with real effects. Because they believe they are getting “the real deal” on ghetto life, they absorb gangsta rap’s reaffirmation of society’s devaluation of black life and love, and see ghetto blacks as willing, and even blissful, participants in a chaotic and impoverished existence on society’s margins...