Word: chosenness
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Molina & Johnson struggle with the limitations of their chosen genre, however, occasionally exhausting their limited supply of musical and thematic tropes. Indicative of the album’s primary shortcoming, “In the Avalon/Little Killer” is a maudlin piano ballad that falls short of the powerful simplicity that “All Gone, All Gone” achieves, and for which it strives. While emotive and marginally moving, the music is fairly boring, never quite leaving the ground. It is chilling, but only slightly so, and while it maintains the unmediated feeling of someone sitting down...
...school dance, or wanting to be popular, even if we don’t have a llama living in our backyard. It is much harder to connect with someone whose face betrays no feeling and whose prose includes lines like, “He’s the chosen one. He was born with flesh pockets.” By failing to give viewers a glimpse into its main character’s emotions, “Gentlemen Broncos” ends up feeling more like Benjamin’s clumsy science fiction than the work of a seasoned comedic...
Sanderson was chosen to finish the series by Harriet McDougal, Jordan’s widow. In an interview yesterday, Sanderson recalled the moment when he received the initial message from McDougal, describing his reaction as “dumbfounded stupefaction” upon being asked to finish a series he had begun reading when...
Lenora C. Murphy ’12, an avid fan of the series who was chosen to be a Storm Leader—what she called a “super volunteer”—for yesterday’s event, said she enjoyed the newest installment for its myriad characters and fast-paced plots...
...That seems to be how it's gone for Kenya, which is gaining a reputation, even among other African nations, as a political basket case where violence is only waiting for the next election to break out again. Leaders have consistently chosen to look after themselves and protect their own rather than trying to get to the bottom of the post-election turmoil and iron out differences between the country's ethnic groups. (See pictures of President Obama's family tree...