Word: akin
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...book about achieving an equal balance of marital responsibilities is akin to one that promises speedy weight loss. You quickly discover that there is no magic--just discipline and eating your vegetables. For the couple who wants to split family life even-steven, it takes love, commitment and the ability to swim upstream, societally speaking...
...various other minor characters. Despite a dense population and a strangely episodic narrative framework, each of Pilch’s characters reads as an emotional mirror; their struggles with alcoholism map a microcosm of the struggles of the human experience. Pilch seems to suggest that rehabilitation is an experience akin to religious purgation, or even experience in combat, referring to the time before and after as “civilian life.” Jerzy’s addiction even finds a human counterpart in the form of his obsession with the mysterious poet Alberta Lulaj...
...still fail to see how India comes out a notch higher in the global imagination after the triumph of this film, which dwells crudely on the country's poverty. The outside world's supposed interest in seeing "the ugliness behind [India's] glittering façade" is akin to the sadistic and hypocritical concern of the game-show host for Jamal, our slum-residing protagonist, while rudely referring to him as a call-center chai wallah; the objective is to humiliate. Reality exists at many levels. Just look at your skin under a microscope if you want to see filth...
...adjust the mirror and face the facts. Republicans are in a ditch, and we have one of two choices: keep digging or find an escape. Being less “self-conscious” and relying on the same good old Rush Limbaugh tactics and his radio advice is akin to sitting on the porch waiting for the domestic car industry to resurrect itself. Don’t hold your breath; it isn’t happening. The Harvard Republican Club has been aware of shifts in public mood for quite some time, eagerly reaching out and reshaping our tactics...
...member of the Allston Brighton North Neighbors Forum, echoed his long-standing concerns about Harvard’s vacant property holdings in the neighborhood, and lamented that Barry’s Corner—the intersection of North Harvard St. and Western Ave, envisioned as a center of commerce akin to Cambridge’s Harvard Square—is still largely defined by an abandoned Harvard-owned Citgo Station...