Word: barest
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...born 14 years after Dday. My father told me stories about his Army stint, which included only the barest facts about the landing on Omaha Beach. He never mentioned the horrors. Now, two years after his death, I am proud to know, thanks to your story, that my father and his buddies were all heroes that...
...insolvent nor threatened with liquidation. But it was important that we move quickly. Uncertainty is one of the worst things that can happen to a staff or to customers." Added a Continental vice president: "Capital is the world's most cowardly commodity. It cuts and runs at the barest jiggle...
...AILEY COMPANY ALWAYS seemed to be introducing a new style or motif in their works, most apparent in "Song Without Words." The ballet used traditional forms but was stripped down to the barest essentials. While it did not transmit the same grandeur that a ballet like "Swan Lake" or "Petrouchka" would, it did have other qualities, more modern inflections. The plain, simple costumes served to outline the human body. More concentration went into individual movements like pointing and flexing the feet, rather than intricate, fast combinations. In this way, the dancers made the bullet majestic, as it almost exalted...
Unfortunately, these themes unfold amid only the barest trappings of dramatic action. Falk, Svanhild, and their social circle, consisting of the various engaged couples and suitors plus an assortment of guests and maiden aunts, simply sit around philosophizing and arguing in a sort of endless garden party. Some pleasure derives from the garden designed by Fred Weber, and intricate structure of terraced platforms and bridges on which speakers leap about, separating and meeting again. But no amount of creative tinkering with platforms can convert these endless wranglings over marriage versus love, friendship versus faithfulness, adventure versus obligation, into a satisfying...
...also a release, a sort of therapy for people who believe that their own government is responsible for death and oppression, for immoral acts, for threatening the life on the planet through nuclear arms. For people who recognize their powerlessness in the face of entrenched structures, emotionalism is the barest minimum of a release. If this does not necessarily justify emotionalism, it certain helps explain...