Word: admit
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...authorities, acting under law for the community, will find the killers, try them and punish them. Implicit is the promise that the punishment will be sufficient to satisfy the need not only for moral satisfaction and justice but also for some measure of emotional satisfaction, a catharsis by--to admit it--legally ritualized revenge. A public hanging used to be a celebration of justice. The catharsis may have barbaric roots, yet by paradox is an essential civilizing instrument...
Here, this writer should probably admit his biases. He speaks as a lifelong liberal, appalled since coming to political consciousness by the kind of Stalinoid bullying and terror inherent in Polonsky's chilling remark. Also as a lifelong cineast who came to aesthetic consciousness as Kazan was achieving his unprecedented (and so far unduplicated) status as the leading director in both theater and movies. And, finally, as one befriended by Kazan a decade ago, when I began producing a TV documentary about...
...ingenious con schemes bring the text to life, and because Sheila McGough refuses to admit any wrong doing at the expense of either herself or her client, Malcolm finds her obstinate, even infuriating. Always self-analyzing, Malcolm emphasizes this dramatic battle between journalist and subject even as she elevates McGough as a compelling heroine. With a twinkle in her eye, Malcolm writes: "I don't know if I've ever had a more irritating subject...I have never before interrupted, lost patience with, spoken so unpleasantly to a subject as I have to Sheila...
...admit I have a problem. It's one thing to arrive at 9:20 each morning for Spanish A; it's quite another show up at 9:45, without the homework. (That comes later.) I realize it's got to stop. I didn't know it at the time, but that's why I became an FM associate editor...
...admit I have a problem. It's one thing to arrive at 9:20 each morning for Spanish A; it's quite another show up at 9:45, without the homework. (That comes later.) I realize it's got to stop. I didn't know it at the time, but that's why I became an FM associate editor...