Word: anathemae
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...past if he becomes self-sufficient, but this means ignoring the plans of others. Tremblay doesn't quite follow through to the plot's implication--that for Serge freedom is incompatible with his need to communicate with and be loved by Nicole and Gabriel. Prolonged silence, the actor's anathema, seems the only escape from Tremblay's determinism. If his characters can't escape their child-hoods and have no outside arbiters to appeal to why should they talk about it at all? Why even say "Bonjour...
...school of economic thought. Regan strongly opposes increasing taxes in order to bring down the deficit. While that view has few adherents in the business or academic world, it has many advocates in the White House. The notion of a tax increase before next year's election is anathema to Reagan's political advisers...
Sculley, though, is trying to make the Lisa more attractive to business buyers. Next year it will be able to run programs designed for the IBM PC. Such a move would have been anathema a year ago and is tacit admission that Apple is learning to live in an IBM-dominated world...
...capitalize them, inset them in outline from: be sure we don't miss them. Why do you think all exams insist at the top. "Illustrate", "Be specific"; etc? They mean it. The illustrations needn't of course be singularly relevant; but they must be there. If Vague Generalities are anathema, sparkling chips of concrete scattered through your bluebook will have you up for sainthood. Or at least Dean's List, Name at least the titles of every other book Hume ever wrote; don't just say "Medieval cathedrals"--name nine. Think of a few specific examples of "contemporary decadence," like...
...pleased, these women of Brewster Place, hands on hips, straight-backed, round-bellied, high-behinded women" have no interest or time to be maudlin. In this first novel, Naylor also demonstrates a rare mastery of the Black idiom and a delicate sense of balance in her usage. Chronology, the anathema of many a more seasoned writer, is the building block of the novel. Flashbacks, recollections and some of the finest dream sequences in contemporary fiction, intermingle to make each story strikingly circular, each one returning to a face, a memory, or a symbol that invoked the episode in the first...