Word: bedrock
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...point he hands his favorite piece of Russian literature to his romantic interest and explains that the author later went insane and committed suicide. While the rest of the principle characters act with egocentric ingratitude for what they have, Joel stands firm as the unlikely moral bedrock of the story.In the film’s attempt to bridge adult drama with juvenile comedy, its one unequivocal success is the versatile soundtrack. The movie implies a setting in the 80s with a single shot of Reagan on a television screen, but period choice seems merely an arbitrary excuse to pepper...
...wrote Mommy Wars is because I got so tired of women saying, "My life is so perfect. Everything is perfect" when no - it actually is not. Candor is so valuable. With domestic violence, candor is the total answer; it is a syndrome that is made worse by its bedrock - secrecy...
...South Korea, “electronic sports,” or eSports, is an $81-million-per-year industry. The bedrock of this relatively recent phenomenon is the game StarCraft, published in 1997 by American company Blizzard Entertainment (now Activision Blizzard, a Viacom company). There are four major StarCraft tournaments that play three seasons annually, at around two months per season. The matches are recorded in front of a live studio audience (comprised mostly of high-school-age female fans) in one of the high-tech “eSports stadiums” sprinkled across Seoul. The footage is televised...
...work of an ascetic and celibate Jewish community known as the Essenes, which flourished in the 1st century A.D. in the scorching desert canyons near the Dead Sea. Now a prominent Israeli scholar, Rachel Elior, disputes that the Essenes ever existed at all - a claim that has shaken the bedrock of biblical scholarship...
...overcoming.”If my father hadn’t come just then I would have fallen over. I know it. I would have gone through the carpet, the wood floor, the stone foundation, and into my own grave. Because now I could see that burrowing into primordial bedrock was the only way I would get away from this mess. I clutched Daddy’s arm as I rassled my breathing. I didn’t even care about collecting myself until I saw Marshall heading towards us. It was a nice diversion—feeling the shock...