Word: confesses
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...admiration and attention he doesn't particularly need, while making scant headway in his cause. Last September some reporters openly criticized the (non-Tibetan) organizers of his trip to Australia because of their $20 T shirts and official sponsorship from Nike, Thai International Airlines and Ford. I must confess, though, that I know of this only because the Dalai Lama told me of it--and a caustic clipping about the "Dalai Lama Show," the only item up on the bulletin board of the Dolma Ling Nunnery in Dharamsala...
...soon. This is not only because of the public's almost irrational fear of anything nuclear--or the threats of stepped-up opposition by such anti-irradiation activists as the Vermont-based group Food & Water. Even major food companies, while publicly lauding the FDA decision as long overdue, privately confess they are not all that eager to implement it. Before investing in the costly shielded radiation rooms that will be needed to sterilize fresh or frozen meat on an assembly-line basis (and will add 3[cents] or 4[cents] to the retail price of chopped sirloin), they want...
...summarize as the contributions of his or her life. Sometimes goodness comes out in a crisis, when the most unexpected people astonish us with unpredictable compassion. And sometimes, it shows at those moments when you happen to stumble into the deeper part of other people's lives--when they confess a secret love or ambition to you, or when you see a beautiful birthday card lying half-written on a desk, or when you catch them alone crying or in a moment of private prayer...
...confess what my generation of politicians has done to your generation. I graduated from high school in 1953 and I inherited from my parents a small federal debt and the world's largest creditor nation. I am leaving you a staggering federal debt and the world's largest debtor nation...
...work is too often obliterated by the shoddy instrumental delivery or weak chorus, if not utterly disguised by the distractingly awful acting. Dido, even in her more musically successful moments, maintains a dreadful expression of peevish nervousness. Even as Belinda liltingly intones of the beautiful queen, "Her eyes confess the flame her tongue denies," all that this reviewer could observe in Bruckmann's eye was a sour distaste for the whole situation...