Word: brokenly
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...more dangerous than any attack made by those who wish to stand in the way progress -- and that's the idea that there is nothing or little that we can do. It's pessimism. It's the pessimistic notion that our politics are too broken and our people too unwilling to make hard choices for us to actually deal with this energy issue that we're facing. And implicit in this argument is the sense that somehow we've lost something important -- that fighting American spirit, that willingness to tackle hard challenges, that determination to see those challenges...
Years ago, social scientists introduced the broken-windows theory of crime control, which posited that if a neighborhood looked orderly and cared for - with no graffiti or broken windows - potential wrongdoers would be dissuaded from committing crimes there. Now psychologists have proposed a similar theory, which suggests that people can be induced to behave virtuously when their environment smells as clean as it looks...
Though lacking any stand-out single, moments of beauty are flecked throughout. Three broken chords plink out a simple, reassuring repetition in lullaby-like opener “24-25.” A lovely seesawing violin ushers in one of the album’s relatively fuller tracks, “Peacetime Resistance.” And Øye’s voice haunts the skeletal structure of “My Ship Isn’t Pretty” with brooding lyrics like “The sky was the blankest sheet / We drew lines upon...
...more dangerous than any attack made by those who wish to stand in the way progress -- and that's the idea that there is nothing or little that we can do. It's pessimism. It's the pessimistic notion that our politics are too broken and our people too unwilling to make hard choices for us to actually deal with this energy issue that we're facing. And implicit in this argument is the sense that somehow we've lost something important -- that fighting American spirit, that willingness to tackle hard challenges, that determination to see those challenges...
...thought that it would get broken up quickly and that tourists might be pissed. But people want to get into the club so they?...