Word: concepting
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Liberals find the concept of a “boost-phase” defense rather appealing. Richard Lowry of the National Review indicates that such a system “would knock down a missile before it really got started...
...Manhattan, where "good" is just the name of a restaurant in Greenwich Village and "evil" is what we call the prices at the new Chanel store in SoHo, the concept of miracles seemed a little hokey until last week. A pointy-head at one of the city's universities might have said the idea of the miraculous is an old metaphor that needs demystifying...
Long, unlike most Americans, I am happy to say, fails to grasp the concept that when a group of people hijack four airlines and crash them into major U.S. landmarks, they have lost the privilege of reasoning through their grievances, and deserve not our empathy, but our wrath. The Twin Towers, above all else, stood as a symbol of rationality and human achievement, and it is this rationality that the suicide bombers of Sept. 11 sought to destroy...
...concept of the show may not seem initially appealing (think Blue Man Group, except the audience walks out blue and sloppy), but like any social event—and it was a social event, with a good 40 minutes of the show consisting of the audience chatting on the padded floor—The Paint Show depended as much on its guests as on its hosts...
...odalisque. The photograph was taken by Francois-Edmund Fortier in 1905, and is quite obviously an example of a European conceit of the exotic. However, both Keïta and Sidibé play with the idea of the odalisque, providing their own (less sexualized) interpretations of the concept in 1959 and 1969, respectively...