Word: complexed
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...immediate result, usually processed in the spinal cord: you pull your hand away from the stove, you shift your weight off the broken bone, you sit down. All pain signals ultimately land in the brain, where they trigger thought ("That was dumb!"), emotions (tears, sobs), memories and a complex array of biochemical events aimed at protecting your body from further harm...
...greatest act of criminality was stealing the show. When Deadwood debuted last year, HBO did not promote Swearengen as the lead. The cast is an ensemble, and since when is the bad guy the star of a western? But as the season unfolded, the complex, amoral yet philosophical master of the Gem Saloon came to dominate the show with greasy, foulmouthed splendor...
...explained by discrimination (an explanation that Summers also discussed, though he judged it to have less explanatory power than did she). But views, even hypotheses, expressed by the President have a different effect on the community than do views expressed by individual professors, and on an issue as important, complex, and sensitive as this, Summers’ speculative remarks were surely imprudent. But to Summers’ credit, he responded to the effects his remarks have had not merely with apologies but with action, creating task forces that include and indeed are chaired by prominent critics (which also suggests that...
Collaborationist or patriot? Even from this grossly abbreviated life story, it is evident that Benegal has chosen a complex protagonist...
...showed up at the Book Store last Thursday—a stone’s throw from his former office, in an unpretentious navy-blue suit, with tortoise shell glasses perched on the end of his nose. He spoke carefully and delicately, with an accent that reflected his own complex identity—Appiah would draw out the “ir” in circle as an Englishman, but would pronounce the “er” in “mother” in the American...