Word: belief
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Burn After Reading were mere warm-ups for this über-doofus. Striding through Iraq as if he has even a remote view of where he's going, Cassady has a confidence that almost masks his lunacy. Thus, he's the exemplar of a war rationale built on the belief in weapons of mass destruction that didn't exist...
...story, including scenes and thoughts that he could not possibly know, adding his own opinions, musings, and questions. Describing his father’s conception, Cal poses, “Parents are supposed to pass down physical traits to their children, but it’s my belief that all sorts of other things get passed down, too: motifs, scenarios, even fates. Wouldn’t I also sneak up on a girl pretending to be asleep?” Cal is able to wax lyrical about the grand scheme of things, but still retains the intimacy that first-person...
...Xanga page I curated until well after I was legally an adult. Then, there’s the first six seasons of “Degrassi: The Next Generation.” Also my wardrobe, generally. And learning, and then regularly using, the NATO phonetic alphabet. Even my firm belief that, even though I didn’t live in a glamorous alternate universe or have creepily perfect teeth like Kristen Bell, I am, in fact, just like Veronica Mars...
Throughout the book and last night’s presentation, Plouffe addressed what he said were four fundamental threads to Obama’s election: belief in the campaign’s ability to defy political convention, refusal to judge success by the news and politics of the moments, the power of the grassroots campaign, and Obama’s performance as a whole...
...belief in a long-term strategy of not being buffeted by the winds of the moment,” Plouffe said...