Word: amidst
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...feels melodramatic. He visually implies that the ruthless obsession of the magician’s rivalry is symptomatic of magic’s inherent danger. When Borden’s wife Olivia hangs herself because she can no longer bear his overriding obsession with magic, Nolan depicts her hanging amidst Borden’s bird cages—equating her with the birds Borden secretly kills for his disappearing bird trick...
...amidst all these accolades, he says it’s clear which one means the most to him: the Sacks-Freund Prize for Teaching Excellence, awarded annually by the Law School’s graduating class...
...legal defense of abortion rests on a strong veil between the public and private. Yet Ms. Magazine relishes in thrusting these women into the spotlight. Moderate pro-choicers everywhere should be embarrassed. Ms. Magazine celebrates abortion as a liberating act of feminism, a truly revolutionary tenor to strike even amidst the cacophonous abortion debates. Most Americans—pro-life and pro-choice—don’t like abortion and they especially don’t praise the procedure itself. What Americans do disagree on is whether it should be permitted—“safe, legal...
...never have engine failure, and the 1 percent that do usually land it. But if you're up in the air and something goes wrong, you pull that parachute, and the whole plane goes down slowly." But with the plane flying at an altitude of under 1,100 feet amidst the buildings of New York City, it is uncertain whether a chute could have been able to help even if it was deployed. The next few days and weeks may make much more clear about just what went wrong...
...going to be bringing back a new charge (or “an entire country of children”) to her English estate.Madonna’s recent interest in charitable giving has already received significant press coverage, but a lot of it has been lost amidst the shake-up on Capitol Hill. Nonetheless, Madonna is a savvy businesswoman, and her version of “development” is definitely provocative; it’s only a matter of time before Madonna is everywhere, yet again.Just take a quick look at “Raising Malawi...