Word: accustomedness
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Thanks to a new postal delivery system, river house residents accustomed to finding their mail in their entryways are now fumbling with personal combination locks on new house mailboxes.
Depardieu writes large what the other players in this typically French -- that is, typically terrific -- ensemble write small: the complexity of human motives at delicately stated cross-purposes. To an American observer, accustomed to watching actors struggle to find more than one dimension in their movie roles, the sight of...
Throughout Soviet history, Kremlin leaders have taken special care to prevent the army from interfering in the nation's internal politics. Yet the new order being established by Mikhail Gorbachev was not the kind that soldiers were accustomed to living with. Pulled out of Afghanistan, shown the door in Eastern...
Readers, however, have an all but boundless appetite for revisiting accustomed pleasures. That is nowhere more true than in the mystery, whose audiences manifest, by their choice of genre, a taste for restoring established order. Victorians so yearned to watch Sherlock Holmes perform his tricks again and again that after...
As their numbers have grown, Hispanics have become more strident in their demands for a larger slice of the economic and political pie. Blacks, long accustomed to being the senior partner in the minority coalition, fear that those gains will come at their expense. Meanwhile, demagogues on both sides have...