Word: chosenness
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...have valiantly chosen to perform as a Juliet for the occasion...
...cadets look around, they may spot amid the splendors of Sandhurst's 1812 Old College and its New College, completed a century later, another sobering lesson in the realities of the career they have chosen. Sandhurst's iconic buildings, like the armed forces, are showing signs of wear and tear. Britain's soldiers remain a focus for national pride, and the fresh-minted officers being turned out by Sandhurst embody a grand tradition. But unless Britain's politicians find a way of reconciling the U.K.'s reflexive desire to take a leading role on the world stage with the nation...
...right up there with…himself. James brings hope for sports glory to a city best known for the Drive, the Fumble, and the Shot—all heartbreakers. Rightly or wrongly, he’s come to be acknowledged as “The Chosen One,” or the one that can deliver Cleveland from its status as “Most Tortured Sports City,” as ESPN named it in 2004. But when James hits free agency, he’ll be the choosing one, and he’ll have to decide...
...year-old Park is best known for his track “Life is a Song,” which was chosen as the final song on the 2006 series finale of the Fox TV drama “The O.C.” This may have been Park’s big break—he notes the strangeness of seeing his song covered on YouTube by hundreds of fans—but Park himself didn’t tune in. “I’m thankful for [the opporunity]. But I’ve never seen...
...enter the grand encyclopedic MFA, I felt like I was charting the path many young artists hope their work will take. Indeed, what is exceptional about schools attached to major museums like the SMFA is that they can offer a bridge to the professional world. For the artists chosen as Traveling Scholars, the exhibit represents a unique opportunity to be seen by thousands of visitors at one of the nation’s leading museums. For viewers like me, it was a reminder that artists graduating from art school today—some not much older than...