Word: accept
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...Still, in Daggers Lau's character plays second fiddle to Zhang Ziyi's blind brothel singer, whose affections he competes for against Kaneshiro in a bitter love triangle riddled with Shakespearean twists and aerial spin kicks. Lau was willing to accept less-than-top billing for a chance to work in a major mainland production?it's his first?with one of Asia's most honored directors. "In Hong Kong the camera is always moving," says Lau. The cinematic trick can distract an audience, providing cover for weak or halfhearted acting. "Zhang Yimou will put the camera...
...standing ignorance within the American people. Far too many individuals have locked themselves into the mindset that film simply cannot exist as an art form comparable to its centuries-old companions in theater, painting and music. I’ve bore many an unhealthy grudge against friends unwilling to accept movies as anything beyond mere entertainment. The most unfortunate aspect of the whole situation is that the less people expect from their weekly excursions to the multiplex, the less they’re delivered. And voila: the monsters are unleashed...
It’s easy to chalk up male aggression to biology. When boys bully or harass their playmates, adults have a tendency to shake their heads and accept that “boys will be boys.” But with males responsible for 90 percent of violent crimes, this apathy is unacceptable...
...appreciate children as gifts is at least to a certain point to accept them as they come, not to cast them as objects of our design, products of our will, or instruments of our ambition,” Sandel said...
...President Bush's National Security Adviser gave a calm and competent performance in defense of the administration's case that it had done all that could have been expected in relation to al-Qaeda in the months before the attacks. Supporters of the Bush administration will, by and large, accept Dr. Rice's argument that even an awareness of a general Qaeda threat could not have allowed the custodians of the nation's security to anticipate its precise timing or nature, and therefore that it could not have been stopped. More importantly, they'll also be more inclined to accept...