Word: absorber
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...exposing us to Marie's inner musings. The voiceovers awkwardly drive the slow, slow scenes. Ducey's throaty voice (amplified by French gutturals) can be irritating as she incessantly harps about her appetite for sensual stimulation. Sometimes she should just shut up and let the rest of us absorb the atmosphere...
...went into the "Building a Safe Community" meeting during first-year orientation week desperately wanting to absorb all that I could. I tried to listen to the messages that the various peer-counseling groups presented and ignore the distractions of the two girls whispering in front of me and the guy next to me cracking his neck and smirking in between his sighs of boredom. The presentation did not focus on addressing the gravity of sexual violence, but raised comical questions about whether or not a woman lying down on a man's bed and winking constitutes "asking...
...fall-off in foreign investment, Asia's economic decline, the unchecked corruption allowed by a mix of private and state ownership, and major weaknesses in the country's industrial, financial and legal infrastructure all threaten China's ability to maintain the breakneck pace of economic growth necessary to absorb its burgeoning unemployed population. And that makes fear of instability the dominant motif in the thinking of China's leaders...
...necessary subjectivity of experience and the importance of nurturing a public that believes commonly in the good of environmentalism--a public that can never share the precise set of experiences that led the naturalist himself to his environmentalist beliefs--through the figure of the representative individual, not self-absorbed but rather allowing the self to absorb into the fabric of the common...
Many humanities classes and cores expect students to read and absorb 150 to 250 pages of reading per week, giving lots of humanities concentrators a total of close to 1,000 pages...