Word: behavioural
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...pure girl of his dreams. Eventually, he lets her die in a peculiarly hideous way-an act, the reader comes to feel, that he intended all along without ever admitting it to himself. For his conscience is always clear: "I know what some would think; they would think my behaviour peculiar. I know most men would only have thought of taking an unfair advantage and there were plenty of opportunities. I could have used the chloroform, done what I liked. But I am not that sort, definitely not that sort at all. What she never understood was that with...
Quebec is indeed a complicated riddle in this election, but in unravelling the complex, Mr. Cohen has overlooked the obvious. Two immutable promises exist in any analysis of Quebec political behaviour in federal elections. One is Quebec's relentless resistance to Anglo-Canadian or American encroachment on her cherished values and identity. Two is Quebec's penchant for heroes be they political or otherwise...
...always been suspicious of the "metaphysics" of language and "meta-linguistic" problems such as how much language conditions thought and influence behaviour. Whatmough has instead worked with the actual substance of language as it appears in printed text or in a recording of someone speaking...
While Greene could offer no definite reason for the Yardling patterns of behaviour, he did feel that "a lot of freshmen are for (H. Stuart) Hughes, and joined the Young Dems to work...
...music for Karl, then philosophy. But Karl was no genius and joined the army instead. Beethoven was full of advice. In letter after letter, he upbraided the boy: "What distresses me most of all is the thought of the consequences which you will suffer as a result of your behaviour. No one will believe or trust you who has heard what has happened and how you have mortally ruined me." Taking all this to heart, Karl tried to commit suicide in 1826. Beethoven never got over the shock. A year later he died...