Word: chosenness
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...just can’t have sex with her... I mean, bite her... I mean, get busy with her... I mean, suck her blood and send her into the immortal undead state of vampires (i.e. people who don’t wear promise rings). In my opinion, Meyer has chosen a strange vehicle to promote premarital celibacy, and in adopting the vampiric image, she’s failed, unsurprisingly, to erase the centuries-old associations and make it her own. Her vampires still stir the same strange Freudian conflation of sex and violence that has captured the attention of Americans...
...Schneider (“Lars and the Real Girl”), disapproves of the relationship between Keats and Brawne and actively attempts to dissuade his friend from pursuing her. This conflict climaxes in a heated argument between the three parties after Brown delivers a mock valentine to Brawne.Had Campion chosen to focus solely on this triangular relationship, perhaps elaborating on the reasons why Brown was so staunchly opposed to his friend’s relationship, she could have composed an engaging romance. However, almost directly following the aforementioned argument, the primary source of conflict clumsily segues into Keats?...
...years ago, we would have been in Radcliffe Yard, needle-pointing a script.”Despite their work last year, Amram and Petri still had to complete the script comp required of all potential HPT writers in order to narrow the field of applicants to the final individuals chosen. Their prior experience undoubtedly helped the duo secure their positions again, but Amram credits another unlikely resource that might have been of assistance. “We thought of the name of the show early on,” she says. “The favorite movie of all time...
Patrick is expected to announce his decision sometime today or tomorrow, according to media reports, but the decision seems to still be pending. The Governor’s office issued a statement yesterday denying that a successor has been chosen...
Things have not gone so well in foreign policy. In a way, that is an inevitable consequence of the strategy the President has chosen to pursue: diplomacy over bellicosity. Diplomacy moves slowly, if at all. A willingness to talk to our adversaries doesn't guarantee that they will be willing to talk to us. The President betrayed a bit of his frustration about this when he spoke to the U.N.: "Those who used to chastise America for acting alone in the world," he said, "cannot now stand by and wait for America to solve the world's problems alone...