Word: awakenning
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This colorful crew is self-satirizing. Any moralizing comment on their behavior would be superfluous. As for the central triangle (a cad, a cuckold and a tin-hearted tart deluded into thinking she has at last found a grand passion), it is too banal to awaken much emotion. Nor is there any point in using these figures from a remote society for social criticism. No, Radford has done the right thing with his material by observing the exaggerated tonalities of glamour-trash fiction. As a result, White Mischief plays as something a lot of people claim to have been missing...
Write letters to friendly editors asking them to help you "awaken the conscience" of America to deal with the trouble. When a leading columnist suggests that by using Government so dramatically in the crisis you are interfering with natural economic law, ignore...
...People have not been focusing their attentions there," she said. "It's not particularly attractive but for the time being, it's what's there. The University takes time. Institutions are slow to awaken to their resources...
EVERY MORNING construction workers awaken North House residents by banging wood planks against each other in an effort to spread sawdust all over the halls and stairwells to weed out students suspected of being susceptible to asthma...
...Notre Dame, the university hastried to prepare you for these responsibilities byoffering courses on foregin languages and othercultures, by surrounding you with classmates formother lands, by providing fellowships and programsto study abroad. All these activities andopportunities have been conceived, at least inpart, to enlarge your tolerance for culturaldiversity, to awaken your interest in foreignlands, to broaden your perspective to include theentire world as your frame of reference...